Architecture and the Turkish City An Urban History of Istanbul Since the Ottomans 1st Edition by Murat Gül ISBN 9781786732309 1786732300

Modern Istanbul: a mirror of Turkish political history

1 Late Ottoman Istanbul: early modernity, nationalism and the end of an empire

Changing architectural tastes and new building types

The Balyans: the apostles of architectural change

Search for a new Ottoman architecture

The Hamidian era: Istanbul between modernisation and absolutism

Alexandre Vallaury: a gifted Levantine

Art Nouveau: a prized style

The Ottoman dream: a brand-new Istanbul

Young Turks and the Second Constitutional Era: from Oriental to Ottoman Revival architecture

The end of Ottoman Istanbul

2 Republican Istanbul: secularisation of the old city

Architecture in the early Republican years

Modernising Istanbul: Prostian years

The 1930s: Istanbul’s ‘apartmentisation’

Art Deco: a prized architectural style in 1930s Istanbul

Return to nationalistic tendencies

Emergence of the Second National Style of Architecture

Postwar Istanbul

Architecture in transition

3 1950s Istanbul: postwar dynamics and change

Istanbul in the early Democrat years

Istanbul reshaped: Menderes’ redevelopment programme 1956–60

The new fashion: International Style

Residential architecture

Opera house: a decades-long dream

The end of the DP era

4 Istanbul between two coups: many plans, many failures

Planned economy

Emerging popular subculture

New hopes: plans guiding Istanbul

Istanbul’s architecture post-1960

The first skyscrapers

Bridging the Bosphorus

Trailblazing architects of the 1970s

Istanbul in the troubled years

‘Apartmentisation’ continued

5 The 1980s: Istanbul encounters neo-liberalism

Dalan’s Istanbul

Three squares, three urban design competitions

The architecture of the 1980s

New hotels, new tall buildings

Gated community housing: a new model for the urban rich

6 The 1990s: political instability, financial crises and architecture adrift

Sözen’s Istanbul

More shopping malls, more high-rise buildings

The end of the Sözen era

New media architecture

The inclination to look to the past

The aftermath of the 1999 earthquake

7 From 2000: marching towards a global city

Istanbul during the AK Party years

Projects to create the image of a global city

Waterfront reshaped

The ‘Crazy Projects’

A real estate heaven

Urban Renewal: great hopes, unbearable hurdles

Shopping malls: the cathedrals of consumerism in global Istanbul

A new skyline dominated by high-rise

Taksim and Gezi Park: an ideological battleground

Epilogue

From Gezi to the ‘spirit of Yenikapi’

What is next?

Notes

Bibliography

Index