Public Faces of Ankara
204.00TL
Yazar: Güven Arif Sargın
Brand: İletişim Yayınevi
Basım Tarihi: 2012
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Sayfa Sayısı: 245Boyut: 13.0 / 19.5 cm
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Ankara's three squares that symbolize its identity as the capital, and beyond that, the Republic and the nation-state: Kızılay-Ulus-Sıhhiye... Until the 1950s, these squares were the public spaces of the Republic... Then, gradually, they were depoliticized by being turned into traffic junctions, while also opening up space for an "unforeseen" or "unwanted" pluralism. And another public space in Ankara that hosts crowds: Yüksel street pedestrian zone... A space that is an essential element of urban daily life, creating channels for the experience of "walking" in a public space, and shaping this "activity"... The book you hold contains articles that analyze the meanings of the city, public space, and politics by "reading" the Kızılay, Ulus, Sıhhiye squares and the Yüksel pedestrian zone. Articles based on a theoretical foundation on Ankara's and the city's plural public identities in general, and on the tension between urban identity and "public consciousness"... An Ankara book that offers descriptions of the history, change, present, and various facets of the spaces "traversed" day by day in the capital... At the same time, a political and theoretical examination: about the politics of space...