: Western City and Urban Memory in the Postmodern Age

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 145 - 169, 31.12.2019

Mustafa Alici

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3572331

Abstract

Nowadays, local/regional history of the city which constitutes the memory of it, dynamic verbal reminiscences about its prominent figures and characters, its original local arts and micro-architecture, urban literature sticking every street in its memory by scanning each of them, its folklore that protects the original of the town and local policies enabling micro-municipality come to the forefront.

Post-urbanism, reflecting the concept of post-modern city points out to human beings with exalted identity, to a city with localness containing collective subjectivity and to the limits of belonging to a place with micron scales. If protecting the historical contexture and memory of the city as it is, is a modern concept; having critical perspectives to develop it with tools such as inspiration and intuition, and to update and elaborate it in accordance with the necessities of the age could be a postmodern one.

Keywords

Modernism, postmodernism, posturbanism, urban memory

: Postmodern Çağda Batılı Şehir ve Hafızası

Abstract

Günümüzde bir şehrin hafızasını oluşturan mahalli/yerel tarihi, önemli şahsiyet veya figürleri hakkındaki dinamik sözlü hatıratlar, özgün mahalli sanat ve mikro mimari, her bir sokağı tarayarak belleğine alan şehir edebiyatı, şehrin orijinal dokusunu koruyan folkloru ve mikro beldeciliğe imkân tanıyan yerel politikalar öne çıkmaktadır.

Postmodern şehir anlayışını yansıtan posturbanizm, yüceltilmiş benlikle insana, kolektif subjektifliğe sahip yerellik ile şehre ve mikron ölçeklerle mekâna aidiyetin sınırlarına işaret etmektedir. Şehrin tarihsel doku ve hafızasını olduğu gibi korumak, modern bir kavram ise onu ilham, sezgi gibi araçlarla geliştirecek eleştirel bakışa sahip olmak ve onu çağımıza uygun güncelleyerek detaylandırmak postmodern bir kavramdır.

Keywords

Modernizm, postmodernizm, posturbanizm, şehir hafızası

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