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- Title
Doors, privacy and the public sphere: a conceptual discussion on the spatial structure of early modern Istanbul.
- Authors
Şavk, Serkan
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to offer a new conceptual framework for the study of various spaces in Istanbul during the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. I contend that rather than the sharp distinction manifested with the public–private dichotomy, we need to focus on gradations of privacy. I offer qāpū and bāb as two new concepts borrowed from the period's own repertoire for representing the macro and micro ends of the spatial gradation. Theoretically, I draw on George Simmel's definition of doors as the interfaces of spatial formation.
- Subjects
ISTANBUL (Turkey); PUBLIC sphere; EIGHTEENTH century; SEVENTEENTH century; PRIVACY; INTERNET privacy
- Publication
Urban History, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 2, p350
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926822000657