Course Name
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Turkish |
Kentsel Mekan ve Kültür
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| English |
Culture and Urban Space |
Course Code
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SBP 606E |
Credit |
Lecture
(hour/week) |
Recitation
(hour/week) |
Laboratory
(hour/week) |
| Semester |
2
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3 |
3 |
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| Course Language |
English |
| Course Coordinator |
Eda Yücesoy
Eda Yücesoy
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| Course Objectives |
The course is designed to obtain a comprehensive understanding of space as a cultural phenomenon and to focus on the anthropological view of production and experience of space with specific reference to social relations and cultural constructions of built forms, place making and urban form.
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| Course Description |
This course brings together social and cultural theories and research on social spaces and spatializations, everyday rhythms and cultural topologies at the interface of urban geography, sociology, cultural studies, studies of time-space, architectural theory, ethnography, media and urban studies.
The focus is on social spaces, construction and production of space, gender, everyday life, and geographies of cultural representation.
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| Course Outcomes |
* identifing basic concepts, themes and theoretical approaches regarding urban space;
* evaluating key theoretical approaches in the cultural analyses of cities and urban life;
* developing comprehensive knowledge of the culture of cities, physical structures, the diversity of urban identities, and various urban social issues;
* critical analysis of local culture and urban space within a global context. |
| Pre-requisite(s) |
none |
| Required Facilities |
none |
| Other |
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| Textbook |
None - weekly readings are uploaded on ninova by the beginning of the course semester. |
| Other References |
Lefebvre, Henri. 1991. The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [Chapter 1]
Harvey, David. 2006. “Space as a Keyword.” In David Harvey: A Critical Reader, 270–94. Oxford: Blackwell.
Low, Setha. 2016. Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place. Routledge. [Chapters 1 and 2]
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1970 “The Berber house or the world reversed”, Volume: 9 issue: 2, page(s): 151-170 https://doi.org/10.1177/053901847000900213
Kus, Susan and Victor Raharijaona, 2000. “House to palace, village to state: scaling up architecture and ideology” American Anthropologist 102 (1): 98-113
Lefebvre, Henri. 2004. Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life. London: Continuum. [Chapter 4]
Upton, D. 2002 ‘Architecture in everyday life’, New Literary History, vol. 33, n. 4 (Autumn), : 691-707.
Pred, A. 1982 ‘Social reproduction and the time-geography of everyday life’, in P. Gould & G. Olsson (eds) A search for common ground, Pion, London, : 157-186
Martina Löw, 2006. The social construction of space and gender. P. Knowlton (trans.) in European Journal of Women’s Studies, vol. 13(2) : 119-133.
Doreen Massey, 1994. Space, place, and gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, chapter 8.
Casey, Edward S. 1996. “How to Get From Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Philosophical Prolegomena.” In Senses of Place, edited by Steven Feld, and Keith H. Basso, Santa Fe: School of American Research Press : 13–52.
Low, Setha. 2016. Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place. Routledge. [Chapter 5]
Lofland, Lyn H. 1973 World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space , Part I: Urban Public Order: The Historical Transformation (Chapters 1, 2, 3) : 29-91
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1995 “Urban Form and Social Context: Cultural Differentiation in the Uses of Urban Parks” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 14:89-102
Whyte, William 1980 The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, The Conservation Foundation.
Pile, S. & N. Thrift (eds) 1995 Mapping the subject, geographies of cultural transformation, ch. 5, Routledge, London.
Noble, G. & M. Watkins 2003 ‘So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation’, Cultural Studies, vol. 14, n. ¾ : 520-538.
Low, Setha, 1996 Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica American Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Nov) : 861-879
De La Pradelle, Michèle, 1995 “Market exchange and the social construction of a public space” French Cultural Studies, 6: 359 DOI: 10.1177/095715589500601807
Schick, I·rvi·n Cemi·l, 1999 “Spaces of Otherness” in The erotic margin : sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse, New York : Verso.
Solomon, Thomas, 2005. “Listening to Istanbul”: Imagining Place in Turkish Rap Music”, Studia Musicologica Norvegica 31: 46-67.
Aytar, Volkan and Azer Keskin, 2003. “Constructions of Spaces of Music in Istanbul: Scuffling and Intermingling Sounds in a Fragmented Metropolis”, Géocarrefour, Vol. 78/2 : 147-157
Stokes, Martin. 1999 “Sounding Out: The Culture Industries and the Globalisation of Istanbul' in Ç. Keyder (ed.) Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local, Rowman and Littlefield, Boulder CO, : 121-139 |
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