Istanbul Urban Database (IUDB) is an interactive sustainable web mapping application for research and the public. IUDB blends a wide range of historical data, and is the most comprehensive online archive of Istanbul’s urban history. The project aims to preserve collective memory, and architectural and urban heritage of Istanbul in an open-access multimedia platform. By implementing ‘interactive deep mapping’ approach, the project presents a set of tools for users to develop historical narratives, uncover hidden cultural and social histories and eventually become part of this digital platform by contributing to it in many forms. Integrating architecture and urbanism into digital and spatial humanities, IUDB explores how emerging spatial and visual tools advance the field of history and urban research.
IUDB is an arts and cultural project, created by Nil Tuzcu.
This project was made possible with the support by architectural and urban historians Professor Sibel Bozdogan and Gul Nese Dogusan Alexander and technology consultant Cagri Hakan Zaman.
BASE MAPS
(Each map has a different zoom level range. If map is not displayed, this means the zoom level is not available)
1821 City Map:
Courtesy of The Harvard Map Collection
Source: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher: Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Online Linkage: http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/jsp/HGL.jsp?action=VColl&VCollName=G7434_I8_1853_D3
1853 City Map:
Courtesy of The Harvard Map Collection
Source: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher: Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Online Linkage: http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/jsp/HGL.jsp?action=VColl&VCollName=G7434_I8_1853_D3
1882 City Map:
Courtesy of The Harvard Map Collection
Publisher: Lorentz and Keil (Firm)
Source: Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Online Linkage:http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/jsp/HGL.jsp?action=VColl&VCollName=G7434_I8_1882_S86
1900 Regional Map:
Courtesy of The Harvard Map Collection
Publisher: Volckmann & Wette.
Source: Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Online Linkage:http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/jsp/HGL.jsp?action=VColl&VCollName=G7433_I8_1900_F5
1922 City Map:
Courtesy of The Harvard Map Collection
Title: Plan d’ensemble de la ville de Constantinople.
Publisher: Societe anonyme ottomane d’etudes et d’enterprises urbaines
Source: Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Online Linkage:http://hgl.harvard.edu:8080/HGL/jsp/HGL.jsp?action=VColl&VCollName=G7434_I8_1922_S6
1913-14 City Map:
Title: 1913-1914 German Blues Map
Publisher: İstanbul: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kütüphane ve Müzeler Müdürlüğü, 2006
Source: Alman mavileri, 1: 1913-1914 I. Dünya Savaşı öncesi İstanbul haritaları / İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kütüphane ve Müzeler Müdürlüğü ; yay.haz. İrfan Dağdelen; proj.sor. Ramazan Minder
1946, 1966, 1970, 1982 Aerial Photos:
Publisher: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Source: https://sehirharitasi.ibb.gov.tr
Pervititch Maps:
Georerenced by Nil Tuzcu
Source: Jacques Pervititch sigorta haritalarında İstanbul = Istanbul in the insurance maps of Jacques Pervititch. İstanbul: Axa Oyak. 2000
PHOTOS
1949 Photos:
Source: Lütfi Kırdar, Cumhuriyet Devrinde Istanbul. İstanbul Milli Eğitim Basımevi. 1949
SPACES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Beaches:
Georeferened by Nil Tuzcu
Source: Various resources
Casinos:
Georeferened by Nil Tuzcu
Source: Various resources
Spaces of Beyoglu:
Drawn by Nil Tuzcu (MIT / Harvard University)
Source: Giovanni Scognamillo, Bir Levantenin Beyoğlu Anıları. Metis Yayınları. 1991.
HOUSING
1960 Squatter Settlements:
Drawn by Nil Tuzcu (MIT / Harvard University)
Source: Kemal H. Karpat, The gecekondu: rural migration and urbanization in Turkey. Cambridge University Press. 1976.
HENRI PROST CITY PLANS
Georeferenced by Nil Tuzcu
Source: Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Archives d’architecture du XXe siècle
Publisher: İmparatorluk başkentinden İstanbul cumhuriyet’in modern kentine : Henri Prost’un İstanbul planlaması, (1936- 1951) = From the imperial capital to the republican modern city : Henri Post’s planning of Istanbul, (1936- 1951). Editors: F. Cânâ Bilsel, Pierre Pinon.
LUIGI PICCINATO CITY PLANS
Georeferenced by Nil Tuzcu
Source: http://www.archivioluigipiccinato.it/?cat=161
Publisher: Archivio Luigi Piccinato
URBAN GROWTH
Drawn by Nil Tuzcu
Source: Various resources
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