Mega events in Istanbul from Henri Prost's master plan of 1937 to the twenty first century Olympic bids

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2011-01-01

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Bilsel, Fatma Cânâ
Zelef, Mustafa Haluk

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F. C. Bilsel and M. H. Zelef, “Mega events in Istanbul from Henri Prost’s master plan of 1937 to the twenty first century Olympic bids,” Planning Perspectives, pp. 621–634, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84512.