Istanbul seems to be a suspended city. Split by the strait of the Golden Horn, it boasts the water square included by the estuary on the Bosphorus as its most important public space. Each day a multitude of inhabitants, like nomads, cross those waters professing abiding devotion to a ritual transit. Suspended between homologation and identity, Istanbul finds its figurative theme in a fragment. Its three water bridges apparently show a sense of flaunted modernity in which the attraction between Europe and Asia occurs in a geographic place generating a clash of different identities which at the same time repel and try to captivate one another. Hospitable and dangerous, noble and proletary, grand and working-class, Istanbul is the city of opposites which tell us about antique tensions bearing fresh energies.

Arcidiacono G, De Capua A, Russo A (2020). The city of the dialectical phenomena. A matter of measure. In A. Russo (a cura di), Reggio Calabria-Istanbul. A Project for Galata. International Urban Design Workshop 2019 URBAN FAÇADE: ISTANBUL WATERFRONT (pp. 42-67). Siracusa : LetteraVentidue.

The city of the dialectical phenomena. A matter of measure

Russo A
2020-01-01

Abstract

Istanbul seems to be a suspended city. Split by the strait of the Golden Horn, it boasts the water square included by the estuary on the Bosphorus as its most important public space. Each day a multitude of inhabitants, like nomads, cross those waters professing abiding devotion to a ritual transit. Suspended between homologation and identity, Istanbul finds its figurative theme in a fragment. Its three water bridges apparently show a sense of flaunted modernity in which the attraction between Europe and Asia occurs in a geographic place generating a clash of different identities which at the same time repel and try to captivate one another. Hospitable and dangerous, noble and proletary, grand and working-class, Istanbul is the city of opposites which tell us about antique tensions bearing fresh energies.
2020
Urban project; waterfront; Galata Istanbul
978-88-6242-403-5
Arcidiacono G, De Capua A, Russo A (2020). The city of the dialectical phenomena. A matter of measure. In A. Russo (a cura di), Reggio Calabria-Istanbul. A Project for Galata. International Urban Design Workshop 2019 URBAN FAÇADE: ISTANBUL WATERFRONT (pp. 42-67). Siracusa : LetteraVentidue.
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