Dolmabahçe: The Memory of a Place
196.00TL
Yazar: Kolektif
Brand: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları
Basım Tarihi: Nisan 2016
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Sayfa Sayısı: 472Boyut: 19.0 x 27.0 cm
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9786053993681
Product Description
Every city possesses spaces that, from the day they were founded, extend into the future, change, and witness historical events, serving as grounds for living spaces, architectural monuments, buildings, etc., that have either disappeared with yesterday or endured to the present day. These spaces are not passive within the city's historical evolution; on the contrary, they actively create a vibrant environment within various practices of life, simultaneously forming the city's memory within a broad framework. This memory is shaped by repetition and renewal according to changing mental structures. It is in the depths of this environment that we can find the different layers of "spatial memory" created by social relations extending back through the ages, physical changes, and the constantly shifting relationships of the ground upon which the city stands. This physical and cultural topography, defined as the "Dolmabahçe Region," encompassing the coastline between Fındıklı and Beşiktaş, and the Gümüşsuyu-Taksim-Teşvikiye-Maçka districts, possesses a space that richly reflects the historical, social, and cultural memory of Istanbul, with the Dolmabahçe Palace, a significant architectural monument, at its center. This study is, in other words, an attempt to write the micro-level history of an urban parcel. Dolmabahçe: The Memory of Space treats the palace not merely as a monumental object, but as an "actor" in all the transformations of the space it centers, creating the memory of that space. This book includes articles written by experts and academics from various disciplines and professional fields, supported by rich visual material, covering all aspects of the region, which has a layered, complex past and bears its traces, within a three-hundred-year historical period. These articles, which reflect the spatial memory formed over the region in a complementary manner, also discuss Istanbul's and Turkey's experiences with modernity, using the Dolmabahçe region as a basis. In a sense, this study, by undertaking what Bahar Kaya calls an "archaeological excavation" among the layers of the historical, social, architectural, and cultural fabric of the Dolmabahçe Region, while examining the complex, pluralistic, and polyphonic adventure of modernity extending from the Ottoman period to the Republic of Turkey in all its aspects, also establishes itself as a fundamental reference work in this field.