The period of excesses of modernity (as Auge’s terms) and even postmodernity in an aggressive form contributing to further urbanization of capital to the expense of perishing anthropological place to non-places.
Published in Chapter:
Aestheticization Through Representation of Power in Built Environment: Urban Public Spaces as Site of Display
Tugce Sanli (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4655-0.ch018
Abstract
The concepts of power, aesthetics, and fear beyond the boundaries of art reveals tangible and intangible existence through urban space, and public space stands as the centre of attention due to its transforming meaning and spatiality reflecting the global-local thresholds of economic, political, and social compositions of different time periods. The research aims to unfold the layers of ‘power' that are capable of manifesting through built environment using state apparatuses, that is, urban planning, land-use changes, architecture, securitization, and pacification of symbolic and socially constructed meanings and connotations of particular urban spaces, each of which upholds its own aesthetic formation that is unstable, sensational, and perceptual. Turkey is chosen for its rich and yet complex social and political history as the case concentrating on Kızılay Square in Ankara due to its potential of reflecting a rich historical passage starting with a modernisation implication of a new capital to tyranny of forms of institutional, political, and representational power at display.