![Taksim Square from above, June 6, 2013. [Photo by nsahusse]](https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lm/lmf1bcyirtf26vcm.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat "Taksim Square from above, June 6, 2013. [Photo by nsahusse]")
Our task — and we should well speak as architects — must be making the invisible visible, uncovering and retracing the concealed limits of the city. We must construct barriers and counter-spaces within and against the processes that tame and dissolve the crucial loci of democracy. — Places Journal
Within a few years, rapidly growing Istanbul will overtake London and Moscow as Europe’s largest metropolis. Not coincidentally, Turkey is undergoing a profound shift toward privatization, as seen in the government's plan to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park into a shopping mall with a nostalgic Ottoman facade. On Places, architect Pedro Levi Bismarck examines the plan as a reflection of a larger democratic crisis, following Siegfried Kracauer’s observation: “Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXNQQ9V8pE
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