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Record Nr.

UNINA9910874656703321

Autore

Cihan Özlem

Titolo

Spatial Encounters and Togetherness in the Metropolis : The Metrobuses of Istanbul / / by Özlem Cihan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031600906

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages)

Collana

Identities and Modernities in Europe, , 2946-3343

Disciplina

388.4

Soggetti

Demography

Sociology, Urban

Human geography

Europe - Politics and government

Spatial Demography

Urban Sociology

Human Geography

European Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. From Empirical to Social Space: A Theoretical Inquiry -- 3. Tracing the History: From Modern City to the Metropolis -- 4. Living Istanbul: Experiences from Metropolitan Everydayness -- 5. Living with Transit Mobility: The Metrobus -- 6 -- Living with Others: Encounters and Togetherness -- 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes Istanbul's bus rapid transit, the metrobus, as an encountering space to unfold the perception and practice of togetherness. Based on field research with regular metrobus passengers, the book presents a layered analysis between everyday life, everyday mobility, and togetherness to emphasize the metropolitan impact on the socio-spatial experience and subjectification. By articulating Lefebvrian social space in a metropolitan context, the book discusses that Istanbul's spatially and temporally framed everydayness leads inhabitants to the need for bus rapid transit. On the other hand, the need for the metrobus produces transit modes of experience in



regulars' socio-spatial relation and subjectification. As a result, encountering and being with the unfamiliar and diverse others undertake the framed typologies of the first two layers and produce a dissolving essence in the idea and practice of togetherness in Istanbul.