Public Spaces through Art

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"For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in [this book] respon…

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One of the clearest indicators of visual pollution in the cities are their silhouettes. Silhouettes are the faces of physical structure and historical accumulation of cities. But today many cities are full of buildings that are incompatible with each other, that are disrespectful to the environment and that have no id…

• DEMET YILMAZ YILDIRIM

This article focuses on the significance of material objects for Palestinians in diaspora in terms of their collective identity and memory. The loss of the real places of memory necessitates the creation of material representations to restore bonds to a homeland and in retaining cultural identity. This study illustrat…

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• FİLİZ TAVŞAN

Anthropological studies have paid too little attention to the everyday experience of traffic, a fact all the more striking given the central place that traffic has come to occupy in urban life worldwide. I submit that the daily experience of traffic is a critical and underutilised medium for examining social inequalit…

• BERNA YAZICI TEPEYURT

Purpose Twitter usage during Gezi Park Protests, a significant large-scale connective action, is analyzed to reveal meaningful findings on individual and group tweeting characteristics. Subsequent to the Arab Spring in terms of its timing, the Gezi Park Protests began by the spread of news on construction plans to bui…

• NİHAT KASAP

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Bu çalışmada Türkiye’de neoliberal kentsel politikaların yasal ve kurumsal yapısının son otuz yılda geçirdiği değişimler incelenmektedir. İncelemede merkezi ve yerel yönetimler arasındaki yetki ve güç kaymalarına vurgu yapılarak, farklı toplumsal aktörlerin karar verme süreçlerine katılımına dikkat çekilmektedir. Türk…

• EMİNE YETİŞKUL ŞENBİL

Abstract This article is based on our research, in which we examine the interplay between political protest and street art practices in Turkey with specific reference to the recent ‘Occupy Gezi’ movement and its aftermath. We propose to conceive street art as a participatory political practice with a full range of dif…

• OĞUZHAN TAŞ

Since 2000, cities have been undergoing rapid and forced transformations initiated both by real estate markets and governments. Within the context of such developments, urban researchers often focus on sites and communities or specific spatial-classes. Fast-changing and heterogeneous conditions have called attention t…