Public Istanbul: Spaces and Spheres of the Urban

Cover Public Istanbul -- CONTENT -- Preface -- PART 1. CONTESTED SPACES -- Introduction: Public Space as a Critical Concept. Adequate for Understanding Istanbul Today? -- Mapping Social Istanbul. Extracts of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area Atlas -- Contested Public Spaces vs. Conquered Public Spaces. Gentrification and its Reflections on Urban Public Space in Istanbul -- Globalization, Locality and the Struggle over a Living Space. The Case of Karanfilköy -- Fortress Istanbul. Gated Communities and the Socio-Urban Transformation -- Peripheral Public Space. Types in Progress -- Old City Walls as Public Spaces in Istanbul -- Regenerating »Public Istanbul«. Two Projects on the Golden Horn -- Public Transformation of the Bosporus. Facts and Opportunities -- PART 2 EXPERIENCING ISTANBUL -- Introduction: Spaces of Everyday Life -- Istanbul's Worldliness -- Public People. Temporary Labor Migrants in Nineteenth Century Istanbul -- The Public and the Private. Discourses and Identifications among Vanli Women in Istanbul -- Creating New Spaces, Claiming Rights. West African Immigrants in Istanbul -- Whose Space, Whose Culture? Struggle for Cultural Representation in »French Street« of Istanbul -- Sabiha in »Public Istanbul« -- Subjects that don't count. Places that are not important. 5 Artistic Approaches -- Notes on Contributors.

Intro; CONTENT; Preface; PART 1. CONTESTED SPACES; Introduction: Public Space as a Critical Concept. Adequate for Understanding Istanbul Today?; Mapping Social Istanbul. Extracts of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area Atlas; Contested Public Spaces vs. Conquered Public Spaces. Gentrification and its Reflections on Urban Public Space in Istanbul; Globalization, Locality and the Struggle over a Living Space. The Case of Karanfilköy; Fortress Istanbul. Gated Communities and the Socio-Urban Transformation; Peripheral Public Space. Types in Progress; Old City Walls as Public Spaces in Istanbul.

Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.