Scale of destruction in Istanbul forests increasingly visible 20 October 2013 /E. BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ, İSTANBUL One of the few projects that environmentalists say will be the end of İstanbul’s last […]
To the Government and the Citizens of Turkey Across the country, particularly in Istanbul-Taksim, all the citizens are demonstrating their democratic reaction to the police violence pursued by the government […]
Turkey Emek cinema protesters released after clash Four people detained during a protest against the closure of the famous Emek cinema in Istanbul on Sunday have been released pending a […]
Urban sprawl hid and fed terrorism: Turkish PM Economic and social factors such as poverty, unemployment, bad housing and urban sprawl have been important factors that have fed terrorism year […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
DIGITAL ARCHITECTURAL PAPERS POSITIONS 1 a collage from interviews with Yaşar Adanali (Istanbul), George Arbid (Beirut), Rami Daher (Amman) and Wael Samhouri (Damascus) by Marianne Baumgartner, Krunoslav Ivanisin An extract […]
Call to International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI) to organize a Zero-Eviction Campaign in Istanbul We, as NGOs, neighbourhood associations, grassroots, urban movements and platforms plus academicians, activists, architects, planners, legal […]
Yapımcı/Producer: Imre Azem Yönetmen/Director: Nejla Osseiran Kurgu/Editing: Mesut Ulutas Müzik/Music: Ozan Turkyilmaz & Baris yerli Yapım/Production: Kibrit Film Süre/Running time: 8 dk/min Yılı/Year: 2011 Özet/Synopsis: “Nerede yaşarsan yaşa!” Türkiye’de ‘Kentsel […]
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 […]
For over a century, the historic Haydarpaşa Railway Station has stood as an iconic image on Istanbul’s skyline and as the symbolic gateway to the city. Built by the German-owned […]
The image above provides a framework for multi dimensional analysis to understand the extremely complex systems that we call cities. The image and the article is part of […]
Haydarpasa Train Station is one of the iconic buildings in Istanbul representing the city’s glorified past with a nostalgic flavor. The station enjoys a premium visibility along the Bosphorus, with […]
Ekümenopolis, the great documentary film about the urban transformation process of Istanbul, wins the Human Rights Award at Sarajevo Film Festival. Congratulations Imre (director) and Gaye (producer)! Ecumenopolis aims for […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: TURKEY URGED TO HALT HEAVY-HANDED EVICTIONS IN ISTANBUL 18 July 2011 The Turkish authorities should halt a series of heavy-handed forced evictions which have already resulted in a […]
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 […]