Overview
- Helps readers to understand the Mediterranean world through a bottom-up approach
- Provides a multi-disciplinary view, allowing readers to comprehend the complex nature of the Mediterranean and its cities
- Uses a relational approach to examine the social, physical and economic structure of Mediterranean port cities
- Evaluates urban memory through personal testimonies, offering detailed insight into the relation between physical environment and social and economic structures
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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About this book
The first part of the book discusses the approaches to the Mediterranean World, from the late prehistory to the present, and questions the implications of the values inherited from the past for a sustainable future. The second part then examines the social structure of Eastern Mediterranean port cities presenting an in-depth study of different ethnic groups and communities. In the third part the changing physical structure of these cities is elucidated from the perspectives of archaeology, architecture, and urban planning. The last part focuses on urbanmemory through a detailed study based on live recordings of original accounts by the local people.
The book benefits prospective researchers in the field of Mediterranean studies, archaeology, history, economic history, architecture and urban planning.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Filiz Yenişehiroğlu is a faculty member at the Department of Art History of Koç University. She also serves as director of Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research and Application Center in Ankara, Turkey. Her areas of specialty are Ottoman Art, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman ceramic art and popular culture.
Dr. Eyüp Özveren is Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (FEAS), Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. His areas of specialty are economic history, history of economic thought, institutional economics, Mediterranean studies and political economy.
Dr. Tülin Selvi Ünlü is researcher at Mersin University-Center for Mediterranean Urban Studies, Turkey. Her areas of specialty are Eastern Mediterranean port cities and their urban development, urban history, urban memory and oral history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities
Book Subtitle: A Study of Mersin, Turkey—From Antiquity to Modernity
Editors: Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Eyüp Özveren, Tülin Selvi Ünlü
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93662-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93661-1Published: 11 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06701-4Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93662-8Published: 28 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 259
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban History, History of the Middle East, Sustainable Development, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Economics