Murat Gul is Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He has previously taught at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey, the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the University of Sydney, Australia and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and co-author of Istanbul Architecture (2013).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Late Ottoman Istanbul: early modernity, nationalism and the end of an empire 2. Republican Istanbul: secularisation of the old city 3. 1950s Istanbul: postwar dynamics and change 4. Istanbul between two coups: many plans, many failures 5. The 1980s: Istanbul encounters neo- liberalism 6. The 1990s: political instability, financial crises and architecture adrift 7. From 2000: marching towards a global city Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Architecture and the Turkish City makes for a phenomenal and erudite reading. It sets the bar for how other scholars ought to approach urban studies, especially in relation to other major Islamicate cities around the globe … [A] dynamic and positively eclectic study that deserves wide readership.

Murat Gul is Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He has previously taught at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey, the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the University of Sydney, Australia and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and co-author of Istanbul Architecture (2013).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Late Ottoman Istanbul: early modernity, nationalism and the end of an empire 2. Republican Istanbul: secularisation of the old city 3. 1950s Istanbul: postwar dynamics and change 4. Istanbul between two coups: many plans, many failures 5. The 1980s: Istanbul encounters neo- liberalism 6. The 1990s: political instability, financial crises and architecture adrift 7. From 2000: marching towards a global city Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Architecture and the Turkish City makes for a phenomenal and erudite reading. It sets the bar for how other scholars ought to approach urban studies, especially in relation to other major Islamicate cities around the globe … [A] dynamic and positively eclectic study that deserves wide readership.

Murat Gul is Professor of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He has previously taught at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey, the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the University of Sydney, Australia and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City (I.B.Tauris, 2009) and co-author of Istanbul Architecture (2013).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Late Ottoman Istanbul: early modernity, nationalism and the end of an empire 2. Republican Istanbul: secularisation of the old city 3. 1950s Istanbul: postwar dynamics and change 4. Istanbul between two coups: many plans, many failures 5. The 1980s: Istanbul encounters neo- liberalism 6. The 1990s: political instability, financial crises and architecture adrift 7. From 2000: marching towards a global city Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Architecture and the Turkish City makes for a phenomenal and erudite reading. It sets the bar for how other scholars ought to approach urban studies, especially in relation to other major Islamicate cities around the globe … [A] dynamic and positively eclectic study that deserves wide readership.