Transformation of Ankara between 1935-1950 in relation with everyday life and lived spatiality

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Özaloğlu, Serpil
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Being the capital of the young Republic, transformation of Ankara’s urban environment into a modern one was one of the objectives of the Early Republican period. In the study, the transformation of urban culture is traced through everyday life of the inhabitants and lived spatiality in the new and old/traditional parts of the city. Urban culture clearly manifests itself in urban public spaces by means of everyday life and lived spatiality. It is not only the elite but the humble income social groups which are the main agents/actors of the transforming urban culture. In Ankara, gradual appropriation of a modern life style takes place in the urban public spaces but these spaces do not have to be part of the grand narrative of nation-building. Cultural places (Sergievi, theaters, movie theaters, people’s houses), recreation places (parks, coffee shops, restaurants), shopping areas, streets and boulevards, districts are spaces of everyday life and new spatial and bodily practices flourish in these spaces. The reality of the city shelters both the new/modern, the old, and the spontaneously developing urban environments which equally participated in the transformation process. The research is based on memory in the study. Written documents, newspapers, literary constructions, memoirs and interviews with the old inhabitants of the city are the main sources. According to the analyses made on the obtained data, Ankara was a fruitful medium for creation of a modern urban culture during the mentioned period and middle social groups were the main components of this transformation process.
Architecture and society., Architecture, Architecture, Modern
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607316/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16548
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Özaloğlu, “Transformation of Ankara between 1935-1950 in relation with everyday life and lived spatiality,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2006.
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