Over the years, the socio-cultural structures, architectural compositions of Istanbul have changed gradually. Unavoidably, Istanbul's urban places have been affected as they have gained new faces through the wrong-driven, top-down, controversial changing processes. Especially since the 1990s, the changes have gained momentum, many controversial modifications have occurred in the heart of Istanbul. Istiklal Street has turned into a symbol of the transformation that Istanbul has been going through. The process brought about the rapid disintegration of the Street's unique, hybrid constitutions and distinctive qualifications. Nearly all the characteristic landmarks that made Istiklal Street special have disappeared one by one and the area is converting into a place that has lost its spirit. To understand how the Street has shaped historically and what has lied at the behind stages, the study begins with a qualitative discussion on the formation of the area since the 1900s. But the focus of the narrative is based on the period from 1990 until today with an explanatory approach to criticise by which mechanisms and actions the area transformed and come today. The study stresses that the potentials of the urban probabilities, socio-spatial compositions, tangible and intangible features are responsible for the future of this place.
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Following the rise of life philosophies and phenomenology in the early 20th century drawing into attention to the importance of human experience; the bodily experience and its sensory contents have begun to be examined. Especially, after World War II, the sensory phenomenon of the human and place interactions and their forms, nature, and dimensions have begun to be examined both scientifically and philosophically. Due to approaches paying attention to the sensorial interpretation of the world, the 'sensory phenomenon' emerged as a paradigmatic turn in the field of humanities and social sciences, and anthropology; and anthropologist David Howes called this shift as a 'sensorial revolution'. This paper starts with a chronological reading on the 'sensory phenomenon' in the modern era and continues to discuss the process until the foundation of the nucleus of 'Centre for Sensory Studies' in 1988 by anthropologist David Howes and sociologist Anthony Synnott. Then, the paper makes an end of revealing the summary of the period after the 1980s; while the sensory studies influenced a variety of disciplines, and afterwards, the spatial dimensions of the sensations have been explored.
In the latest years, the changing socio-cultural structure, economic and political movements, law and city regulations, innovative transportation and communication activities have resulted in a modification of the city of Istanbul. In this process, numerous intangible features of urban places in Istanbul have modified, gone, or changed; and unavoidably the ‘sensory urban experiences’ of Istiklal Street, which is one of the important urban places of Istanbul, have changed controversially. This study asserts that the ‘sensory urban experiences’ of Istiklal Street needs to be examined as much as possible to criticize the sensory reflections of the latest modifications in the area. This study focuses on the ‘auditory experiences’ of Istiklal Street to understand what has been lost and changed in terms of the auditory atmosphere of the area. Therefore, the method of ‘Sensewalking’, which is an efficient research tool to generate knowledge on the urban experiences beyond visual experiences, is used to catch the auditory experiences of the area. This study says that producing the knowledge on the sensory urban experiences beyond visual features is worthwhile, and this could open new ways for discussing the urban matters especially in the field of architecture, and urban studies.
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