Istanbul : 21st Century Model of the Global City?

Conférence sur la gouvernance d’Istanbul.

Programme détaillé

The conference will discuss Istanbul as a case, with the working idea that we should not just be rolling out standard neo-liberal / global city hypotheses, but rather re-thinking how and why Istanbul might be suggesting elements of a new model of the global city, relevant to understand the emergent non-Western global metropoles of the twenty first century.

It is apparent to us that not only is Istanbul an extraordinary and accessible case right now of one of the “new” emerging global metropolises, but also that the multiple dimensions of urban development and change to be found in the city exemplify in striking ways the agenda proposed by the “Governance” approach to the urban studies that is the signature of the Sciences Po “Cities are Back in Town” research pôle.
 
The idea is to discuss with a number of key experts on Istanbul to present their amassed data and visions of the city, in the light of the broader question, of whether what is being witnessed in Istanbul can be generalised as an urban dynamic archetypal of other new global metropolises outside the Western world?