Salvaging Buildings
Reclaiming a Livelihood from the Excesses of Istanbul's Mass Urbanization
Abstract
For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolitions in its wake. The construction waste produced is immense but its removal or abatement is completely ignored by the state. Who will deal with all this waste? Enter the reclaimers (çkmacs), an informal network of building salvagers, who have stepped in to create a new form of assemblage that fills this gap. Erdogan Onur Ceritoglu makes an in-depth ethnographic study of the under-the-radar livelihood of the reclaimers long-term. He also focuses on incremental architecture through the reuse of second-hand building elements.
Keywords
Architecture; Urbanisation; Building Salvage; Informality; Turkey; City; Urban Planning; Urban StudiesDOI
10.14361/9783839469248ISBN
9783839469248, 9783837669244, 9783839469248Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2023Series
Architekturen, 79Classification
Architecture
Urban & municipal planning