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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Istanbul, Turkey"”.
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Urban dwelling environments : Istanbul, Turkey
Thesis. 1976. M.ArchAS--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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A tuberculosis sanatorium for Istanbul Turkey
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1947.
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Commodifying urban space : the case of branded housing projects in Istanbul, Turkey
… study of branded housing projects developed in Istanbul, Turkey. Housing enclaves have been expanding globally as part of neoliberal urbanisation and, as a particular version of contemporary housing enclaves, branded housing projects have been developed in Turkey since the early 2000s, following …
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Waterfront developments in the Middle East case study : the Golden Horn Project, Istanbul, Turkey
… . It concentrates on the Golden Horn project in Istanbul as it raises a number of issues that are central to any such development in that region. In order for us to appreciate the problem, the thesis starts with an examination of the history of the city of Istanbul. This is followed by an …
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Architecture as a stage for play and self expression : an intervention of public open space in Istanbul, Turkey
… and self expression. Unfortunately, in Istanbul, a city of twelve million people where public space has historically been associated with the mosque, historical precedents for secular public places such as this do not exist. Since the decline of the role of religion in social and …
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‘Being-at-home’ and homelessness: an interpretive phenomenological analysis of the experiences of Syrian involuntary immigrants living in Istanbul, Turkey
… experiences of Syrian war immigrants living in Turkey in relation to ‘being-at-home’ and ‘homelessness’. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight English-speaking, well-educated participants aged under 45. Interviews primarily focused on participants’ individual experiences of …
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Feasibility study of Leonardo da Vinci's bridge proposal over the Golden Horn in Istanbul
… spanning over the Golden Horn in present-day Istanbul, Turkey. The design was a response to an invitation by the Sultan Bayezid II (1447-1512) to construct a bridge connecting Galata and Istanbul. Had Leonardo's design been constructed, at a span of roughly 280 meters, it would have been the …
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Documentary Film: I Named Her Angel
… the formal gatherings of a Mevlevi den in Istanbul, Turkey. A den or tekke is a place where Islamic people gather and perform their religious activities. During these gatherings they do the sema, they pray, they listen to music, and they discuss spiritual matters. Sema is the entire ritual …
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Toward an understanding of an inside out perspective on city branding - a grounded theory study of Leeds and Istanbul
… theory methodology and uses Leeds, UK and Istanbul, Turkey as deliberately contrasting case studies. In accordance with grounded theory, the literature was only used to inform rather than direct the research design. The sampling design involved initial and theoretical sampling and in total …
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Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis
… #00Bienal de La Habana in Havana, Cuba; the 15th Istanbul Biennial in Istanbul, Turkey; and documenta 14, in Kassel, Germany. I argue each of these biennials are "biennials of resistance" by way of their resistivity. Moreover, I demonstrate a new conceptualization of "biennials of resistance" …
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Transnational religion in Greek American political advocacy.
… freedom of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey. Following a survey of the role of the Church and its leadership in advocacy on these issues, this dissertation analyzes the elements of transnational religion in the Greek American experience in order to develop a methodology for …
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Upgrading spontaneous settlements : an alternative view of gecekondu "self-help" housing in Istanbul
… of three gecekondu (spontaneous) settlements in Istanbul, Turkey. It describes the complex web of relationships between local and national government, community leaders, residents, legal landowners, developers and the general public; further, it examines how these stakeholders interact to create …
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Architecture and Nation-building in Mid-20th Century Urban Turkey and Iraq
… in architecture and city planning in Ankara, Turkey and Baghdad, Iraq, focusing on foreign architects' plans in each city during key moments in the development of each countries' nationalisms (the 1930s in Turkey and the 1950s in Iraq). The plans it focuses on are Hermann Jansen's plan for …
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Investigating Injury Pathology of Blast-induced Polytrauma and Assessing the Therapeutic Role of Hemostatic Nanoparticles after Blast Exposure
… T. (2004) "Mass-casualty terrorist bombings in Istanbul, Turkey, November 2003: reports of the events and the prehospital emergency response." Prehosp Disaster Med 19(2):133-145. Snell, F. I. and M. J. Halter (2010). "A signature wound of war: mild traumatic brain injury." J Psychosoc Nurs Ment …
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Development of techniques for earthquake microzonation studies in different urban environment
… next step, I applied this two-layer approach to Istanbul (Turkey) and Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). A similar hybrid approach, i.e., combining earthquake and noise data, has been used for the microzonation of these two different urban environments. For both cities, after having calibrated the fundamental …
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How do low-income Kurdish migrant women reconstruct their lives in an inner-city neighborhood of Istanbul?: experiences of migration and adaptation to life in the city
… migration from the southeast region of Turkey to Istanbul. The study situated mothers and families within the multiple contexts they were embedded in, using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological framework. Informed by strengths perspective and structure versus human agency theories, the study …
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The Straits and Constantinople, 1914-1923
… upon the northern shores of the Black Sea did Turkey give up her exclusive control over all shipping within that body of water. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, all of the important countries of Europe had gained permission to pass their commerce through the Straits into the Black …