Becoming non- blasé: slowness via urbanisation

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Erdal, Berrak
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In accordance with the rise of industrialization and technology, the “urban form” reshapes itself as the production relations and the new modern life find a unique way of transformation simultaneously. One of the factors behind that new urbanism is the time-space compression that accelerates the experience of time and reduces the significance of distance. With the impact of speed, the society develops a reaction, which is no reaction at all, as Georg Simmel defines as blasé attitude. In this thesis, a non-blasé urbanism that is truly based on the notion of slowness will be investigated with the examples of utopian urbanisms in global context.
Cities and towns., Urbanization., Lifestyles., City and town life., Social ecology., Sociology, Urban.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23491
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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B. Erdal, “Becoming non- blasé: slowness via urbanisation,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2014.
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