Sayfiye to banlieue : suburban landscape around Anatolian railways, from mid-nineteenth century to the World War II

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The major intention of this dissertation is to reveal a new perspective for suburbanization by discussing the transformation of the rural space into suburban space and formation of suburban landscape within the context of social production of space and theories of landscape. A methodological and conceptual framework is developed through a multi-disciplinary approach encompassing the theories of architecture, urban planning and cultural geography for understanding production of suburban landscape. Although, the movement of the people from the city to the countryside for recreational and leisure purposes was a common practice in İstanbul starting from the Byzantine times; it was after the construction of the Anatolian Railways that the environs of the railways and stations started to develop as suburban settlements on the Anatolian side of İstanbul. Sayfiye settlements used at the summers which were the initial form of the suburban development at the environs of Kadıköy at the late nineteenth century, gradually transformed into permanent residential settlements as banlieue during the early twentieth century. The dissertation aims to decode the suburban landscape around the Anatolian Railways in İstanbul by analyzing the interrelations of landscape as form, meaning and representation, in addition to the analysis of political, economic and social dynamics at the background of the production of suburban landscape. Thus, the dissertation intends to write the urban environmental history of the suburbs of Kadıköy starting from the mid-nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century based on the analysis of urban transformation of agriculture-sayfiye-banlieue trilogy.

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Suburbs, Metropolitan areas, Urbanization, Sociology, Urban, Community development, Urban

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22622

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E. Salah, “Sayfiye to banlieue : suburban landscape around Anatolian railways, from mid-nineteenth century to the World War II,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2013.