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Empire, Architecture, and the City - French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 (Hardcover)
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Empire, Architecture, and the City - French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity
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Winner of the 2010 Spiro Kostof Award (sponsored by the Society of
Architectural Historians) Empire building and modernity dominate
the history of the nineteenth century. The French and Ottoman
empires capitalized on modern infrastructure and city building to
control diverse social, cultural, and political landscapes. Zeynep
Celik examines the cities of Algeria and Tunisia under French
colonial rule and those of the Ottoman Arab provinces. By shifting
the emphasis from the “centers” of Paris and Istanbul to the
“peripheries,” she presents a more nuanced look at
cross-cultural exchanges. The different political agendas of the
French and Ottoman empires reveal the myriad meanings behind
remarkably similar urban forms and buildings. This lavishly
illustrated volume makes numerous archival plans, photographs, and
postcards available for the first time, along with reproductions
from periodicals and official yearbooks. Roads, railroads, ports,
and waterways served many imperial agendas, ranging from military
to commercial and even ideological. Interventions changed the urban
fabrics in unprecedented ways: straight arteries were cut through
cities, European-style quarters were appended to historic cores,
and new industrial and mining towns, military posts, and
administrative centers were built according to the latest trends.
These major feats of engineering were carefully planned to
construct a modern image while addressing practical concerns of
growth and communication. Celik discusses public squares as
privileged sites of imperial expression, as evidenced by the
buildings that defined them and the iconographically charged
monuments that adorned them. She examines the architecture of
public buildings. Theaters, schools, and hospitals and the offices
that housed the imperial administrative apparatus (city halls,
government palaces, post offices, police stations, and military
structures) were new secular monuments, designed according to
European models but in a range of architectural expressions. Public
ceremonies, set against modern urban spaces, played key roles in
conveying political messages. Celik maps out their orchestrated
occupation of streets and squares. She concludes with questions on
how the various attitudes of both empires engaged cultural
differences, race, and civilizing missions.
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