Stambuł i jego rana
Istanbul and Its Wounds

Summary/Abstract: The autor focuses on two neighborhoods: Tarlabasi and Sulukule, some of the poorest, most obsolete and entropic spaces in Istanbul. Both areas have recently undergone a process of a somewhat brutal urban transformation, during which those slums and ethnic minority ghettos (first inhabited predominantly by Gypsies, second by Kurds) have been transformed into luxurious upper-middle-class residencial areas. This process of rapid and forced gentrification is interpreted as a way of “curing” a specific urban “disease”, that has long ago infected the “body” of the centuries-old metropolis.

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