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Architecture and image: the example of Turkey / Ozaslan, Nuray; Akalin, Aysu

Akalin, Aysu	Journal Article
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2011.

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Since the 1980s, through the creation of image-dependent products, the advertising industry in metropolitan areas of Turkey has followed new tastes by manufacturing collective identities promising 'a different lifestyle'. This has been achieved by promoting either images of past (historical) forms or of different cultures and claiming that these images represent a better future in the social network of consumption. This article presents an historical perspective on the transformation of Turkish architecture in the postmodern from an historical and cultural representation of society to the 'ordinary' and the 'clichéd'. Now buildings are made to appear 'historical' in an attempt to look different. Architecture turns into making an image that is easy to exchange, buy and sell.

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Turkey ; Architecture ; Cultural Representation

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Space as a projection of spatial practices: an Urban park in western Anatolia in the early-republican period / Yuksekli, Berrin Akgun; Akalin, Aysu

Yuksekli, Berrin Akgun	Journal Article
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2011.

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The main objective of this study is to analyze the effects of discourse in the production of designed landscapes within the urban environment. The study concentrates on the social construction of space within the framework of Lefebvre's spatialization trilogy and Foucault's approach to power in order to investigate a public park as a tool for studying the emergence of order and power relationships in society. In this work, Lefebvre's 'spatial practice' concept was considered a 'discursive practice' providing a conceptual ground for the discussion of the problem. Additionally, Lefebvre's definition of spatialization is reconceptualised along with Foucault's notions of power, knowledge and discourse. The problem is studied in reference to Atatürk Park in Balikesir, a small city and regional capital located in the western part of Turkey. Through the discourse of the modernization process, how Atatürk Park as an urban space been socially constructed has been described and analyzed.

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Turkey ; Modernization ; Urban Environment ; Western Anatolia ; Urban Park

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