Migration and Urban Integration
The Arapkir Connection As is the case with all economic and political capital-cities, Istanbul has always been a city which,…
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Pictures from a Neighborhood
The mahalles of Istanbul were mixed in terms of wealth, social class, and status. Residential patterns usually ran along lines…
Streets and Houses
There was a fundamental change in the layout of the streets and in the distribution of the houses that had…
The Administered Body: Early Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
There was neither a cadastral land survey nor a title-deed registry of any sort in the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman cities. All…
Overlaps and Takeovers
After the 1885 Ottoman population census, new responsibilities were added to their list of duties, and the muhtars were required…
A Case of Peaceful Transition: Imam and Muhtar in Kasap ƒlyas
The precise mode of selection and/or appointment of the first muhtars in the Istanbul mahalles in the 1830s and 1840s…