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Whose City Is That? Culture, Design, Spectacle and Capital in Istanbul

Whose City Is That? Culture, Design, Spectacle and Capital in Istanbul

Koçak, Dilek Özhan
Koçak, Orhan Kemal

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General EuropeGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1443860433
ISBN13: 9781443860437
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 335
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Whose City is That? shows that Istanbul is produced not only by strong and systematic efforts, corporate influences and/or marketing activities, but also by individual contributions and coincidences. As such, the primary purpose of this book is to find the answer of to whom Istanbul does belong, presenting the reader with the richness of human experience and the practice of everyday life. The chapters in this book are therefore focused on the physical and economic dimensions, as well as the imaginary, fictional and hyper-real dimensions, expressing the concern of bringing the real and imaginary borders of the city together. The book provides an understanding that for each inhabitant there is another city, another Istanbul. Each person living in the city creates or lives in another city which is made of their own personal and particular experiences. In addition, the Istanbul authors understand and describe turns into something different moment by moment, which cannot be defined or identified because of its very nature as a megacity. However, its flow is not aimless and non-directional, and each sign is not causeless or dateless. In this context, in order to make the possibilities of the city visible, the contributors to this volume ask: Istanbul, whose city is it?The title of the book enables different academics to ask the same question using different methodologies and subjects. The question Whose City is That? and the necessity of studying Istanbul using multidisciplinary perspectives brought many researchers from different fields together, because the city is larger than one approach and the constraints of one unique field. Gathering researchers and academics from various disciplines, such as communication studies, cultural studies, cinema/media studies, literature, the fine arts, city and regional planning, political science, social and economic geography, anthropology, and architecture enables each to think about the city alone and together, so as to create new forms of thought and discourse about Istanbul.

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