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Showing posts with label Istanbul. Show all posts

Democracy Suspended

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Yasar Adanali 's presentation on democratic & urban transformation in the Middle East and Turkey at the Integrated Urbanism a...
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rEmEmbEr imbAbA

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" but aren't squatters the enemy of the civil society? "  Robert Neuwirth  was asked about his experience in the squatter comm...
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n0 fact0RIES...n0 w0rRIES !

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 a view towards the bosphrus from a Gecekondu called Kazim Karabekir in Sariyer, Istanbul Inspired by Timothy Mitchell's article tit...
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Demolition ....can't happen here!

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The photo above is for Ayazma, a geçekondu or an informal neighborhood founded by migrants to Istanbul around 1980s. In the 2002s the la...
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In search for the missing level

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In Egypt the lack of democracy in the local governance level and refusal to decentralize municipal governance, deepens the gap bet...
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Quotes

The people from the barrio built the city twice: during the day we built the houses of the well-off. At night and at weekends, with solidarity, we built our own homes, our barrio.

  —Andrés Antillano, resident of Caracas, April 15, 2004