Between Global And Local

Download or read book Istanbul written by Caglar Keyder and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in Istanbul, one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Explaining the course of the conflicts and the compromises involved in maintaining a precarious urbanity, this theoretically informed volume focuses on the fields of struggle ranging from politics to heritage, humor to music, public space to housing.