Reinvention of Tradition as an Urban Image: The Case of Ankara Citadel

Asuman Türkün Erendil and Zuhal Ulusoy

Environment and Planning B, 2002, vol. 29, issue 5, 655-672

Abstract: Debates on urban tourism have been coupled with a widespread discourse on ‘placelessness’, ‘loss of identity’, and ‘standardization’ related to the modernist ideology of planning. In this respect, utilizing this historic urban fabric has become important as a means of recreating an urban image. Ironically, efforts to avoid standardization are caught in another trap of sameness and blandness, because a very similar vocabulary is used in the ability of those tourist-historic places to meet the expectations of the universal tourist industry. In this context, we analyzed the recent efforts to integrate an inner-city area, Ankara Citadel and its vicinity, focusing on the changing identity owing to the introduction of income-generating and tourist-attraction facilities. The nature and consequences of this transformation have been investigated in terms of the issues of preservation practice, economic feasibility, public interest, and its ethics and legitimacy.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1068/b12840

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