MFA- The Miniatures of Matrakci Nasuh. (2010, March). Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060721094720/http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/Nasuh/i5.jpg
I chose these two city images side by side and collage them. The first is the Istanbul plan made by Matrakçı Nasuh Efendi. It is thought that the work was made in the 1530s. The second photo was taken by me in 2019. I wanted to notate these two Istanbul images because in the lesson, our teacher touched on the change from Karaköy to the present. Istanbul can be defined as urban city for a long time due to its political importance. In this picture, I do not make rural-urban change and comparison from the past to the present. I would like to talk about the changes and transformations these two cities experienced until it became  a modern city. Nasuh Effendi,  most probably made a lot of effort to get this bird's eye view. Maybe he had to travel for hours to reach the highest hill in the city. It might  also take days and maybe months to complete this work and color it.  On the opposite, this Istanbul photo taken from the plane in 2019 on the left was taken with an electronic device in an average of 5 seconds during a vacation. This change embodies many layers in its background, such as Diego Rivera's "Frozen Asset". Just like the fact that a city has many economic, sociological, psychological and political layers behind its urbanization. We cannot limit the change of these two Istanbul portraits to successive inventions such as telephone, electricity, motor. All of these processes are interconnected as an influencing chain reaction, and they all reflect the foundation of the modern city concept as well as its consequences. With the industrial revolution, the transformation of production, the start of migration from rural areas to urban areas, the concentration and formation of cities and the formation of a new economic culture with this migration; radical changes such as the reflection of the new economic culture on culture, sociology, human psychology and life habits may explain the change and transformation of these two Istanbul portraits. All these radical transformations that affect each other can explain the difference in time and accesesibility between Nasuh Efendi and me in Istanbul portraits.

So what was the underlying cause or trigger of these two factors? The answer to this question is the changes that took place at the end of the Second World War. Of course, it is not exactly product of ww2, but after the 2nd world war, these processes gained speed. Babyboomers generations can be defined as people who starts to think about future, hope about future, caring  familiy , and saving money. Additionally, they also  Think about the well being of next generations.  Automobility and the development of highways, on the other hand, led to the increase of freedom of movement of these baby boomers generations and the establishment of surburbias by moving away from urban life.  So, it can be mentioned that in suburbia, there is seperation between urban sociaty and suburbia dwellers.
We talked about the model of urban planner named Ebenezer Howard. A combined hybrid version of rural and urban was proposed in this model. Neither too far from the city nor where personal space is restricted. Starting from this point, we continued with in-class discussion in the lesson. This class discussion was one of the topics I enjoyed the most. We talked about personal space and how much the urban city allows personal space.

In class, I made a few comments about how much personal space a modern city gives to a person:  In big cities, while the square meters of the houses are decreasing, their prices have started to increase because there is less enough space for overpopulation, and thus, projects where the most city residents will live in the least area. Accordingly, apartments with tiny balconies are to be found. In my opinion, balconies are an important area in the house. It is a point of contact with both the personal home and the outside. In modern cities, the balconies of the houses are very close to the balconies of other houses. Just like city dwellers traveling with 0 personal space on a bus at the end of a working hour. This situation of the balconies gives a lot of information from the sociology of the city. It is crowded, and cramped, with secondary relationships predominant. Based on this situation, we see the following advertisements in many modern cities: A village in the city! Alaçatı in Ankara. It is clearly understood that suburbia, which has rural life features, is targeted within the city. In addition, our teacher gave the example of Çayyolu in the lesson. This is the living spaces created by people who are bored of city life and want to escape from the city, but cannot get far from the city: Suburbias!
Finally, in one of my favorite TV series, I witnessed exactly the move to subrubia and the reasons why. In the TV series Friends, married couple Monica and Chandler start search of a residence close to the smaller, modernized city but without the density and mobility of the city beacuse of  raising their children in a better way . Thinking about the future of their children, they decided to buy their own housing by and leaving  their rented houses, and eventually they found a suburbia with gardens close to the city.