Conference: Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities: The Right to the City and the Common Space, 2018
It took thousand years for River Lykos to flow between the valleys of Istanbul into Sea of Marmar... more It took thousand years for River Lykos to flow between the valleys of Istanbul into Sea of Marmara. At the rivermouth it took just two years to construct enrochements in deep waters and filling in 30 hectars of an area attached to the historical peninsula. In 2014 a blink of an eye was enough to monitor it from the satellite map on the screens and see the bean shaped swell. Yenikapı an old Mediterranean port area, is now named after a reclaimed land of a “square” without backstreets to escape, which Lefebvre would prefer to call a monument saturated with oppression and meaning. A monument of virtual image, that is available to eye only from above and out in the sea. It is absent in everyday experience as a flatland that supersedes being a landscape of power.
Conference: Urban Struggles in Mediterranean Cities: The Right to the City and the Common Space, 2018
It took thousand years for River Lykos to flow between the valleys of Istanbul into Sea of Marmar... more It took thousand years for River Lykos to flow between the valleys of Istanbul into Sea of Marmara. At the rivermouth it took just two years to construct enrochements in deep waters and filling in 30 hectars of an area attached to the historical peninsula. In 2014 a blink of an eye was enough to monitor it from the satellite map on the screens and see the bean shaped swell. Yenikapı an old Mediterranean port area, is now named after a reclaimed land of a “square” without backstreets to escape, which Lefebvre would prefer to call a monument saturated with oppression and meaning. A monument of virtual image, that is available to eye only from above and out in the sea. It is absent in everyday experience as a flatland that supersedes being a landscape of power.
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