BUILDING MODERN TURKEY - State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic

Provides a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from an empire into a modern nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, through the story of the making of Ankara, its new capital.

About the author

Zeynep Kezer is senior lecturer in the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

Summary

Zeynep Kezer offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey's transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.

Product details

• Authors: Zeynep Kezer
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2015
• EAN: 9780822963905
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6390-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Series: Culture Politics & the Built E; Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment; Culture Politics & the Built E; Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment; Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture