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This seminar was created in 2006 at ZMO (Zentrum Moderner Orient) as part of our »Compared Cities« initiative, within the framework of the EUME (Europe in the Middle-East / the Middle-East in Europe) programme at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. The intent was to build a new space of discussion on present stakes in Ottoman urban history open to both the international fellows of our programme, international guests, and the Berlin public specialized not only in Ottoman but also in transnational and conceptual history. Transnational history had also been a major focus at ZMO for several years, an experience on which we were able to capitalize. From the beginning it was clear to us that a transnational and comparative perspective had to draw not only on Ottomanist erudition, but should integrate some of the major current approaches and questions in (mainstream, i. e. mostly Western) History and the Social Sciences. We felt that Ottomanist scholarship, strong as it is, at times suff ers from ...
Urban Identities and Catastrophe: Izmir and Salonica at the End of the Ottoman Empire
Two huge fires dramatically influenced the urban development of Salonica and Izmir, in 1917 and in 1922, respectively. These catastrophes occurred after the Ottoman Empire fell, and Salonica and Izmir had shifted into new national contexts. The fires mainly destroyed the districts that were transformed during the late-Ottoman period. These districts became the cosmopolitan façades of modern Izmir and Salonica. The post-fires' tabula rasa provided an opportunity for Greek and Turkish politicians and European planners to change the urban identity of both cities. Moreover, the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 transformed their multicultural societies also. Reconstruction plans had been thought to de-Ottomanize and remove the previous idea of the towns and their multiplicity, interpreting new cultural and nationalist feeling. Here, I emphasize how modernity was interpreted before and after the fires, and point out contradictions between ideological aspects of planning and how the first urban districts were built during the 1920s.
Cosmopolitan Attachment: Pluralism and Civic Identity in Late Ottoman Cities.
Review of Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012); and Biray Kolluoğlu and Meltem Toksöz (eds), Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day (New York and London: IB Tauris, 2010), in Journal of Urban History, vol. 41 (3): 521-525.