Print Email Facebook Twitter Urban Scenes of a Port City Title Urban Scenes of a Port City: Exploring Beautiful İzmir through Narratives of Cosmopolitan Practices Author Tanis, F. (TU Delft Situated Architecture) Contributor Havik, K.M. (promotor) van Bergeijk, H.D. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2022-05-09 Abstract This dissertation is an invitation to the reader to explore Güzel İzmir / Beautiful İzmir in Turkey. Through three different semi-fictional narratives, it aims to draw attention to specific and singular spaces as they were recorded and remembered through old postcards, black and white photographs, stories, and written travelogues in the past centuries and decades. Thus, it wants to discuss the specificity of an eastern Mediterranean port city by addressing it on eye-level through the experiences of a wanderer. By acknowledging the important role of narratives in building an image of the city, this doctoral research proposes that developing a particular narrative writing method may help to re-establish emotional connections between present-day inhabitants of port cities and their environments. It offers an alternative way of writing and an unconventional reading of the urban and architectural history of İzmir to revive socio-spatial practices by writing narratives of Beautiful İzmir. Subject port city architecturesİzmirSmyrnaOttoman EmpireEastern MediterraneanNarrative approachSpatial Imaginationport city culturePort HeritagePort-citiesLevantineLevantine Heritage To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:558ae171-e2f4-4a37-8993-2b4a6a9539dd DOI https://doi.org/10.7480/abe.2022.08 Publisher A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment ISBN 978-94-6366-542-1 Embargo date 2022-05-09 Series A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, 2212-3202, 22 (08) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2022 F. Tanis Files PDF 9789463665421_WEB.pdf 24.43 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:558ae171-e2f4-4a37-8993-2b4a6a9539dd/datastream/OBJ/view