TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping, regularizing and modernizing Ottoman Istanbul
T2 - Aspects of the genesis of the 1839 development policy
AU - Gül, Murat
AU - Lamb, Richard
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Modernization and westernization in the urban morphology of Istanbul during the late Ottoman period has frequently been presented by Turkish scholars in a linear process, linking urban development plans and later changes to the influence of historic figures, such as Helmuth von Moltke, a Prussian military adviser of the 1830s. A more holistic reading of this phenomenon based on primary sources, including letters in German by von Moltke, reveals a complex array of forces, responses and reactions, and simultaneously, a more modest and less seminal role for von Moltke in the development of the historic city.
AB - Modernization and westernization in the urban morphology of Istanbul during the late Ottoman period has frequently been presented by Turkish scholars in a linear process, linking urban development plans and later changes to the influence of historic figures, such as Helmuth von Moltke, a Prussian military adviser of the 1830s. A more holistic reading of this phenomenon based on primary sources, including letters in German by von Moltke, reveals a complex array of forces, responses and reactions, and simultaneously, a more modest and less seminal role for von Moltke in the development of the historic city.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=22544468099&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0963926805002634
DO - 10.1017/S0963926805002634
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:22544468099
SN - 0963-9268
VL - 31
SP - 420
EP - 436
JO - Urban History
JF - Urban History
IS - 3
ER -
