"When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian émigrés sold family heirlooms, an…
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“Sensing the City” examines the perceived and embodied urban modern sensory experience of 1920s Istanbul and the district of Beyoğlu. Specifically, it explores the concept of the “decadent modern” as a way to address what contemporary critics and Turkish republican scholars have…