Space Inventor

In Istanbul, the street and the city is a natural extension of the house and private life. Open spaces like cemeteries, abandoned building lots or undeveloped lands were all used by the public. They were not designed spaces, they were left over, indeterminate spaces. This faded away when the city evolved to the neoliberal metropolis of the 21st century. Now every space is open for development and the protests we see today over public space are because of the clash of this informal and public city and the private neoliberal city.