lo Squaderno (Mar 2015)

Rooftop Architecture in Istanbul

  • Esen Gökçe Özdamar

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 35
pp. 47 – 50

Abstract

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Following the rapid construction of apartments in the 1980s, İstanbul and other major cities in Turkey witnessed extraordinary changes. Some immigrants who settled there began breeding cattle in rooftop structures on top of existing apartment buildings, due to the lack of extra space for stables or storage.

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