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q and a: urban transformation in istanbul
Questions: Özgür Göral Answers: Yasar A. Adanali 1) Urban transformation projects are one of the most controversial issues during the last years in İstanbul. In your opinion, what is the urban and...
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reading istanbul (work in progress)
This is an ever expanding bibliography on Istanbul available in English. It does not claim to be “the” reading list for Istanbul. It covers wide range of urban issues from different disciplines. New...
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The Guardian: Turkish Roma make way for property developers
Turkish Roma make way for property developers in historic Istanbul district Sulukule ‘urban regeneration’ programme sees new townhouses advertised at 10 times the price paid to evictees Constanze...
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#OccupyGezi: Setting Urban Enclosures on Fire
Photo by Yaşar Adnan Adanalı – Tarlabaşı’s fences after the fire The AKP government came to power in 2002 in the aftermath of one of Turkey’s worst financial crises. Since then the government, has...
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Blood Architecture
Daniel Libeskind, Istanbul and Labour Murders Kartal district is one of Istanbul’s hot spots in terms of urban transformation. The public – private partnership of ‘global city makers’ started hyping...
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Crowd-funding Campaign for ‘Tarlabasi and Me’
After wandering through several areas of Istanbul and taking up all kinds of informal jobs since his release from prison, “Mustafa from Adana”, in his fifties, decides to start over and settle in...
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Making the Invisible Visible
Mapping the Networks of Dispossession in Turkey’s urban transformation processes The interview with Yaşar Adnan Adanalı focuses on the collective data-compiling and mapping project The Networks of...
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