Istanbul Reading
Smellscapes
Viewscapes
Preliminary bibliography reading:
For a concise introduction to the urban history of Istanbul see the introduction and chapter One in:
Z. Celik (1986) Remaking of Istanbul, Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, (Berkeley, University of California Press)
For work on the role of historical viewscapes in Ottoman Istanbul see:
G. Necipoğlu, “Framing the Gaze in Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Palaces”, Ars Orientalis (23) 303-342
L. Thys-Senocak, (2006) Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, (Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing) Chapter 5 pp. 187-256
For an introduction to several issues dealing with Istanbul and contemporary cultural politics see:
Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe ed. D. Göktürk, L. Soysal, I. Türeli (2010) (Oxfordshire, Routledge)
Local media coverage in English on threatened viewscapes of Istanbul:
http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&newsId=256346&link=256346
For maps, video, photos and conservation decisions related to Istanbul as a world heritage site see:
UNESCO WORLD HERİTAGE SİTE FOR ISTANBUL
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/356
Becoming Places/Becoming Istanbul