This chapter tells the story of an imperial town's transformation into a national city. It will start
with the emergence of Mezre as a government suburb in proximity to Harput in the …

Ankara was still a small, insignificant town when it was declared the capital of Turkey in
1923.1 However, within a couple of decades it had grown to become the second largest city …

Turkey's urbanisation experience is key to understanding and critically evaluating its
hundred-year history as well as its contemporary socio-cultural tensions. Its story of …

During his visit to Istanbul following the 1999 Marmara earthquake, Umberto Eco declared
that it is “one of the cities which are possible to be grasped gradually only if approached …

Turkey's urbanization started in the post-World War II era.“Over 3.3 million people were
added to the urban population during the 1950s, more than twice as many as in the previous …

The present study examines Istanbul's transformation in the period between the
proclamation of the Turkish republic in 1923 and the end of the Democratic Party's rule in …

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet
remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish republic. Since the 1950s it has undergone …

In the mid-to late nineteenth century, the Ottoman port-city of Izmir underwent a
transformation more rapid than at any other time in all its long history. In this period, much of …

Turkey's cities have gone through several transformative periods and waves of
modernisation in the last two centuries. In an almost dialectical process, the modern …