Abstract
As any first-time visitor to Istanbul would immediately observe, a dense conglomeration of reinforced concrete medium to high-rise apartment blocks constitutes the overwhelming fabric of contemporary Turkish urbanscape. The majority of Turkey’s urban population lives in apartments, which range from mid-rise, spacious and relatively well-designed examples, to generic blocks on small urban lots produced for a speculative market and the substandard, often illegal ‘squatter apartments’ of the poorer urban fringes. Regardless of differences in size, height or quality, apartment blocks represent the most pervasive residential typology in modern Turkish architecture, reflecting the forces of modernisation at work in the country, especially since the 1950s.1
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Bozdoğan, S. (2010). From ‘Cubic Houses’ to Suburban Villas: Residential Architecture and the Elites in Turkey. In: Kerslake, C., Öktem, K., Robins, P. (eds) Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277397_22
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