Sultanahmet, Istanbul&#039;s Historic Peninsula

Pinar Aykaç

doi:10.5771/9781793641694

Summary

This book explores how the museum concept has expanded beyond the boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself through musealization. Articulating the musealization of historic cities as a specific urban process, the book here presents a study of the transformation of the Sultanahmet district on Istanbul’s historic peninsula, which has been the major focus of planning, conservation and museological studies in Turkey since the 19th century as the public face of the city. The author aims to offer empirically grounded and context-specific insight into the role of museums in the regeneration of historic cities. Musealization as an urban process varies in different geographical, cultural and ideological contexts, and across different time periods. By discussing the Sultanahmet district as a specific context of yet another city subjected to the musealization process, this book provides further insights into this important global phenomenon.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4168-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4169-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 252
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. List of Figures No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Historic City as a Museum: Dissolving Boundaries No access
2. Musealisation as an Urban Process No access
3. Musealisation as a Component of Urban Historiography No access
4. Organisation of the Book No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1865 Hocapaşa Fire: Urban Regularisation by the Road Improvement Commission No access
2. Establishment of the Museum as a Building Type and as an Institution No access
3. From Antiquities to Historic Monuments: Institutionalisation of Historic Preservation No access
4. 1912 İshakpaşa Fire and the Sultanahmet District as a Quartier Incendié No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Sultanahmet District as the Late Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Capital No access
2. Notes No access
1. Attempts at Planned Urban Development and Institutionalisation of Urban Conservation No access
2. The Sultanahmet District as an Emerging Tourist Destination No access
3. Notes No access
1. Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula as a World Heritage Site No access
2. Reconceptualising Sultanahmet Archaeological Park as a Historic Urban Neighbourhood No access
3. Sultanahmet District as a Tourism Centre No access
4. The Struggle for a Coherent Urban Narrative for the Sultanahmet District No access
5. Notes No access
1. Conceptualising Istanbul as a Museum-City: Remembering the Ottoman Capital No access
2. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 215 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 250
About the Author No access Pages 251 - 252