Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? (Planning, History and Environment Series)

Looking At The Globalization, Urban Regeneration, Arts Events And Cultural Spectacles, This Book Considers A City Not Until Now Included In The Global City Debate. Divided Into Five Parts, Each Preceded By An Editorial Introduction, This Book Is An Interdisciplinary Study Of An Iconic City, A City Facing Conflicting Social, Political And Cultural Pressures In Its Search For A Place In Europe And On The World Stage In The Twenty-first Century. -- Publisher Description. Introduction: Orienting Istanbul-cultural Capital Of Europe? / Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal And İpek Türeli -- Istanbul Into The Twenty-first Century / Çağlar Keyder -- The Soul Of A City: Hüzün, Keyif, Longing / Engine F. Işin -- Challenging The Neoliberal Urban Regime: Regeneration And Resistance In Başıbüyük And Tarlabaşı / Özlem Ünsal And Tuna Kuyucu -- Contestations Over A Living Heritage Site: The Case Of Büyük Valide Han / Ayşegül Baykan [and Others] -- Practices Of Neo-ottomanism: Making Space And Place Virtuous In Istanbul / Jeremy F. Walton -- Modelling Citizenship In Turkey's Miniature Park / İpek Türeli -- The Spectator In The Making: Modernity And Cinema In Istanbul, 1896-1928 / Nezih Erdoğan -- Istanbul Through Migrants' Eyes / İpek Türeli -- Istanbul Convertible: A Magic Carpet Ride [title Of 2005 Film] Through Genres / Deniz Bayrakdar And Elif Akçalt -- Projecting Polyphony: Moving Images, Travelling Sounds / Deniz Göktürk -- Optimism Reconsidered / Curator Hou Hanru Interviewed By Nilgün Bayraktar -- Art In Istanbul: Contemporary Spectacles And History Revisited / Jale Erzen -- The Politics Of Urban Arts Events: Comparing Istanbul And Berlin / Banu Karaca -- The European Capital Of Culture Programme And Istanbul 2010 / Carola Hein -- Istanbul 2010 European Capital Of Culture: Towards A Participatory Culture? / Oğuz Öner -- Counting As European: Jews And The Politics Of Presence In Istanbul / Marcy Brink-danan -- Future(s) Of The City: Istanbul For The New Century / Levent Soysal -- Epilogue: Istanbul: Cultural Politics In The Kaleidoscope / Michael Herzfeld. Edited By Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, And Ipek Türeli. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Built Environment Contents 3 Introduction: Orienting Istanbul – Cultural Capital of Europe? 15 Part I Paths to Globalization 37 1 Istanbul into the Twenty-First Century 39 2 The Soul of a City: Hüzün, Keyif, Longing 49 Part II Heritage and Regeneration Debates 63 3 Challenging the Neoliberal Urban Regime: Regeneration and Resistance in Basibüyük and Tarlabasi 65 4 Contestations over a Living Heritage Site: The Case of Büyük Valide Han 85 6 Modelling Citizenship in Turkey’s Miniature Park 118 Part III The Mediatized City 141 7 The Spectator in the Making: Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul, 1896–1928 143 8 Istanbul through Migrants’ Eyes 158 9 Istanbul Convertible: A Magic Carpet Ride through Genres 179 10 Projecting Polyphony: Moving Images, Travelling Sounds 192 Part IV Art in the City 213 11 Optimism Reconsidered 215 12 Art in Istanbul: Contemporary Spectacles and History Revisited 230 13 The Politics of Urban Art Events: Comparing Istanbul and Berlin 248 Part V A European Capital? 265 14 The European Capital of Culture Programme and Istanbul 2010 267 15 Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture: Towards a Participatory Culture? 281 16 Counting as European: Jews and the Politics of Presence in Istanbul 293 17 Future(s) of the City: Istanbul for the New Century 310 Epilogue: Istanbul: Cultural Politics in the Kaleidoscope 327 Index 338 Offers an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century