UPL528 HISTORICAL ROOTS OF URBAN POLITICS ANO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Course Content
The production of space approach of Henri Lefebvre, his notion of everyday life and its relation to urban studies and especially urban history; sources for writing Ottoman urban history, sources for writing European urban history; the connections of modernity and urbanism on the basis of Eastern and Western European cities; pre-modern multi-ethnic cities in imperial settings; the transition from empire to nation-state and its impact upon urban space; the crossroads of urban history and cultural and intellectual history; the relation between upper classes and `commoners` Ottoman cities.
