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Mapping, regularizing and modernizing Ottoman Istanbul: aspects of the genesis of the 1839 Development Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2005

MURAT GÜL  and
RICHARD LAMB
MURAT GÜL
Affiliation:
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
RICHARD LAMB
Affiliation:
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Abstract

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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , December 2004 , pp. 420 - 436
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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