Bu çalışmanın amacı, Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde (1923-1938) kentlerin ideal şekilde nasıl düzenlendiğini ortaya koymaktır. Cumhuriyet Dönemi’nde ideal kent arayışları, geçmişten kopan her yönüyle Batılılaşan yeni bir toplum meydana getirmeye yönelik mekânsal çabalardır. Bu çabalarla …
This thesis explores a shift from wheat fields to TOKI mass housing in Ankara, Turkey and is based on a comparative world-historical perspective (McMichael 1990). Urban and agrarian issues are explored by placing processes of what David Harvey (2003) has referred to as "accumula…
In the interwar period, the Soviet Union and Turkey embarked on an unprecedented partnership, characterized by high profile economic, diplomatic, and cultural exchanges. The enthusiasm of these interactions surprised contemporaneous foreign observers and contemporary scholars al…
During the Tanzimat period (1839–1878), the Ottoman state applied certain reform policies in order to centralize its administration, increase state revenue and implement social and economic development projects in the core regions of the empire. These same reform policies result…
When the leaders of the neophyte Turkish Republic decided to build a new capital in Ankara, they not only introduced a new political entity, but also tried to inaugurate a new national identity for the country and its people while pronouncing a definitive breakaway from the Otto…
This study investigates the networking behavior of innovative firms in two regions in Turkey: Ankara and Istanbul. Specifically, it compares the geographical extent and characteristics of innovation networks between the two regions when firms carry out innovation, i.e. developin…
This thesis examines similarities and differences in architecture and city planning in Ankara, Turkey and Baghdad, Iraq, focusing on foreign architects' plans in each city during key moments in the development of each countries' nationalisms (the 1930s in Turkey and the 1950s in…