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Urban Palimpsest

Urban Palimpsest

(1337 words)
July 7, 2026

Urban palimpsest is a socio-spatial and architectural concept that refers to a city’s physical, spatial, and cultural fabric accumulating layers of traces from different historical periods, social practices, needs, and ideologies.【1】 The term derives from the Greek words palin, meaning "again," and psestos, meaning "scraped," combining to form palimpsēstos.【2】 In antiquity, due to the rarity and cost of parchment and papyrus, manuscripts with erased or scraped-off older texts rewritten on top we

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Kadriye Beyza Kirenci

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Mall Culture

Mall Culture

(447 words)
January 6, 2026

The modern capitalist system spatially expresses its presence and functioning in today’s cities through shopping malls (AVM). In contemporary social structures described as “consumer societies,” these centers have become an inevitable reality of urban life. The great cities of the past, associated with production, now host these massive structures where consumption is concentrated and organized.Ünal Şentürk, "Tüketim Toplumu Bağlamında Boş Zamanların Kurumsallaştırdığı Bir Mekân: Alışveriş Merke

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Shopping Mall Culture

Shopping Mall Culture

(445 words)
July 14, 2026

The modern capitalist system spatially expresses its presence and functioning in today’s cities through shopping malls (AVM). In contemporary social structures described as a "consumption society", these centers have become an inevitable reality of urban life. The great cities of the past, once associated with production, now accommodate these massive structures where consumption is concentrated and organized.Ünal Şentürk, "Tüketim Toplumu Bağlamında Boş Zamanların Kurumsallaştırdığı Bir Mekân:

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Chicago School of Sociology

Chicago School of Sociology

(1763 words)
July 6, 2026

Chicago School of Sociology is an academic movement recognized for its foundations in the Department of Sociology established at the University of Chicago in 1892 and especially for the urban sociology research and theoretical approaches it produced during the 1920s and 1930s. This process began with the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline in the United States at this university by Albion Small and reached its peak through the work of pioneering figures such as Robert E.

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