عنوان

Empire, architecture, and the city

9780295987798 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0295987790 (hardcover : alk. paper)

90-9854

انگلیسی

Empire, architecture, and the city

: French-Ottoman encounters, 1830-1914

/ Zeynep Celik.

Seattle

: University of Washington Press

, c2008.

xiii, 337 p., [25] p. of plates

: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans (some col.)

; 27 cm.

Studies in modernity and national identity

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-320) and index.

"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 illustrated volume makes numerous archival plans, photographs, and postcards available for the first time, along with reproductions from periodicals and official yearbooks." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Public spaces-- Africa, North.

Public spaces-- Turkey.

Architecture, French-- Africa, North.

Architecture, Ottoman.

Architecture and state-- Africa, North.

Architecture and state-- Turkey.

Celik, Zeynep.

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