Talks Towards the City: Capital of Culture vs. Capital Culture
İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate for Culture
Co-editor | TR & ENG
The bilingual book documents a series of seminars focusing on issues related to the city on the way to Istanbul being selected as the Capital of Culture for 2010. Curated and moderated by Serhan Ada, six public talks were held between November 2008 – May 2009 at the Tarık Zafer Tunaya Cultural Centre in Istanbul. The talks were edited and published by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate for Culture.
Ada, Serhan and Eylem Ertürk, eds. Kültür Başkenti – Başkent Kültürü: Kente Doğru Konuşmalar |Talks Towards the City: Capital of Culture vs. Capital Culture.Translated by Cankat Özkan. Istanbul: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate for Culture, 2011.
Contents
Foreword | 5
Cultural Venues in the Capital of Culture | 11
Nazan Ölçer, Sabancı Museum
Görgün Taner, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Capitals of Culture | 39
Hanan Kassab-Hassan, Damascus Arab Capital of Culture & Damascus University
Laurent Tricart, Pole Culture de la Ville de Lille
City and Culture in Berlin and Paris | 57
Nora Şeni, IFEA French Institute for Anatolian Studies
Ihsan Bilgin, Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Architecture
Vienna – Moscow | 81
İlber Ortaylı, Topkapı Palace Museums
Marseille 2013 European Capital of Culture Process | 99
Pierre Hivernat, Marseille 2013 Europan Capital of Culture
Creative Industries | 111
Zeynep Enlil, Yıldız Technical University Department of Urban Planning
Eylem Ertürk 