Whose city is that?
Subtitle: culture, design, spectacle and capital in Istanbul
By: edited by Dilek Özhan Koçak and Orhan Kemal Koçak
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781443860437
Other titles: Culture, design, spectacle and capital in Istanbul
Description: "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 the 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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is there any other Istanbul?  -- Dilek Özhan Koçak and Orhan Kemal Koçak; title: Uncanny encounters with the city and the self in western travelogues on Istanbul  -- Hande Tekdemir; title: From Istanbul with love : the new orientalism of Hollywood  -- Murat Akser; title: TV series and the city : Istanbul as a market for local dreams and transnational fantasies  -- Eylem Yanardağoğlu; title: Networked gentrification : place-making strategies and social networks of middle class gentrifers in Istanbul  -- Ebru Soytemel and Besime Şen; title: The transformation of the urban periphery : once upon a time there were gecekondus in Istanbul  -- Şükrü Aslan and Tahire Erman; title: Promises and lies : themed living on the edges of Istanbul  -- Sibel Yardımcı; title: An emergent dystopian place in Istanbul : the Bezirganbahçe TOKİ housing estate  -- Tahire Erman; title: Writing on Istanbul : graffiti of the city  -- Bahar Aksel and İnci Olgun; title: Disrupting the amnesia : metaphoric artistic interventions in Istanbul  -- Evrim Kavcar; title: One-person holdings : tactics of Istanbul's street vendors  -- Erbatur Çavuşoğlu and Julia Strutz; title: "We are the legionaries!" : Filipina domestic workers in Istanbul  -- Ayşe Akalın; title: Fashion's night out : creating Istanbul's new image  -- Nilay Ulusoy; title: The city of the tourist : Istanbul as an imaginary city  -- Dilek Özhan Koçak -- The reconquest of constantinople : reflections on the contemporary landscape and the 1453 Panorama Museum in Istanbul / -- Deniz Ünsal; title: I saw Istanbul as a university -- Emine Onaran İncirlioğlu.