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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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istanbul is on fire
On the 25th of June for the Mashallah News Day Event in Istanbul, I made a presentation on the urban transformation process in Istanbul. Mashallah News published the presentation under the title of...
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…gentrified istiklal street…
Originally published @ Red Thread / Archive / Issue 3 (2011) De-spatialized Space as Neoliberal Utopia: Gentrified İstiklal Street and Commercialized Urban Spaces Yaşar Adnan Adanalı [1] Today...
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taksim project: the reign of madness in Istanbul
Undoubtedly, one of the most important public spaces in Turkey is the Taksim Square. In the minds and hearts of Istanbulites and anyone who visits the city, Taksim will remain as a dazzling,...
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democracy suspended: urban frontiers of the turkish model
My lecture on the political & urban transformation in the Middle East and limits to the ‘Turkish Model’. This was presented at the Integrated Urbanism Dialogues Conference, Stuttgart, Germany on...
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taksim project and economies of scale of urban transformation
The construction work for the Taksim Project had just started. You can find my article published in Trialog Journal on this project and its broader discursive framework here. THE REIGN OF ‘MADNESS’ IN...
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legal transformation of the urban frontier
Nowadays, in parallel with the increasing weight of the construction sector in the Turkish economy, a large portion of print and visual ads promote real estate developers’ concept housing, residence...
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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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#OccupyGezi: The Park Revolution
Reclaiming, Rethinking, Re-producing Space and Democracy The Turkish Prime Minister’s proposal to build a new shopping mall on the site of Gezi Park, the only remaining green space in the extreme...
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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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Urban Political Ecology On The Road – RELOADED (Summer School in Istanbul)
Would you like to be a part of a critical urban discussion this summer in Istanbul, one that is both theoretically challenging and intensively embedded in field experience? Our times depend on the...
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The Housing Question and Beyond
Interview with Yaşar Adnan Adanalı by Lucia Wright On the role of “experts”, participation, housing, public space and democracy… Tell us what is the turning point in your life which directed your...
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