Event tip: HEYU! Urbans Istanbul with Tuna Kuyucu

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Wednesday May 25, OBA

During this night of HEYU! Tuna Kuyucu, assistantProfessor of Sociology at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul is invited. Hisresearch focuses on changing policies for social housing in Istanbul. Until2002, the government did not build social housing; people themselves had tofind or build their own home. The construction sector, which has close linkswith the government, provides this now. This happens in the form of hugecollections towers that sweep away existing neighborhoods, and residents haveno control. Kuyucu is currently working on a book that examines the failure ofthe current urban renewal in Istanbul.

His co-referent this evening is Joost Lagendijk, alecturer at the University of Suleyman Shah in Istanbul. From 1998-2009 he wasa member of the European Parliament on behalf of GroenLinks. He is co-authorof, among others, Send the Muslim Neighbours (2007) and The Turks are coming!(2013), in which he discusses prejudices about Turkey.

HEYU! Urbans Istanbul willtake place on 25 May, 8-10 pm in the OBA Theater (Oosterdoksdade 143, 7thfloor). Tickets are 10 or 5 euro (with an OBA-card, citycard or student card),you can buy them here. Members of We Are Publichave free entrance. The lecture will be in English.**

Source: OBA
Picture: HeyU


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