Introduction: Public Space as a Critical Concept. Adequate for Understanding Istanbul Today?

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Preface 7
4. PART 1. CONTESTED SPACES
5. Introduction: Public Space as a Critical Concept. Adequate for Understanding Istanbul Today? 13
6. Mapping Social Istanbul. Extracts of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area Atlas 21
7. Contested Public Spaces vs. Conquered Public Spaces. Gentrification and its Reflections on Urban Public Space in Istanbul 29
8. Globalization, Locality and the Struggle over a Living Space. The Case of Karanfilköy 49
9. Fortress Istanbul. Gated Communities and the Socio-Urban Transformation 83
10. Peripheral Public Spaces. Types in Progress 113
11. Old City Walls as Public Spaces in Istanbul 141
12. Regenerating »Public Istanbul«. Two Projects on the Golden Horn 163
13. Public Transformation of the Bosporus. Facts and Opportunities 187
14. PART 2. EXPERIENCING ISTANBUL
15. Introduction: Spaces of Everyday Life 209
16. Istanbul's Worldliness 215
17. Public People. Temporary Labor Migrants in Nineteenth Century Istanbul 233
18. The Public and the Private: Discourses and Identifications among Vanlı Women in Istanbul 255
19. Creating New Spaces, Claiming Rights. West African Immigrants in Istanbul 279
20. Whose Space, Whose Culture? Struggle for Cultural Representation in »French Street« of Istanbul 299
21. Sabiha in »Public Istanbul« 319
22. Subjects that don’t count. Places that are not important. 5 Artistic Approaches 333
23. Notes on Contributors 349