Vol. 14 No. 2 (2017): Urban Transformation
Articles

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's Beş Şehir: an aesthetic approach to urban transformation

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  • Evren Akaltun
Evren Akaltun
Department Of Cultural Studies And Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5505/itujfa.2017.52824

Published 2017-09-08

Keywords

  • Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar,
  • Beş Şehir,
  • modernity,
  • tradition,
  • Bergson.

How to Cite

Akaltun, E. (2017). Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Beş Şehir: an aesthetic approach to urban transformation. A|Z ITU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, 14(2), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.5505/itujfa.2017.52824

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the themes of preserving the architectural heritage, cultural contextualization, and the methods of reconstruction in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's prose work, Beş Şehir (1946). This study approaches the term, urban transformation thematically, using the theories of modernity and modernization in evaluating the themes of demolition and reconstruction, loss and novelty, transformation and preservation. By keeping Tanpınar's essays as reference point, I argue that Tanpınar provides an insight into complexity of the modernization practices in Turkey, which should inform our discussion of current urban strategies.
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