#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. […]
Category Archives: urban discourse
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
…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 İstanbul ranks seventh among world cities in […]
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 […]
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 […]
istanbul living in exclusion
Istanbul Living in Voluntary and Involuntary Exclusion (2009) is a publication that brings maps, interviews, articles and case studies together on urban transformation processes and its impact on different social […]