^#smrgSAHAF Becoming Istanbul: An Encyclopedia - 2008

Becoming Istanbul is a multi-authored bedside book which discusses the current changes that the city undergoes within 152 different items. These items focus on problematics which are discussion points in Istanbul today, many of them being subjects of anxiety. They can be summarized as standard opinions, explanation patterns and stereotype complaints, in general, discourses by those who observe the Istanbul of today and its process of becoming a metropolitan. Many of the items were chosen by the authors out of a long list prepared by the editors, and some of them were suggested by the authors themselves. Although the book has been organized alphabetically, it doesn't have the comprehensive structure or the academic consistency of an encyclopedia, neither was it intended to do so. The only criteria given to the writers were the general points of approach mentioned above and the limitation of the text length. With the intention of expressing "becoming Istanbul" from as many angles as possible, the authors were chosen from a wide range of professions: architects, musicians, city planners, chefs, activists, sociologists, economists, film critics, authors, museum curators, geographers, journalists, anthropologists, historians...

AhenkDereli, Alan Duben, Alexis Sanal, Arzu Öztürkmen, Atilla Yücel, Ayda Arel, Aydan Balamir, Ayşe Akalın, Ayşe Çavdar, Ayşe Erek, Ay şen Ciravoğlu, Başak Sanaç Tanrıverdi, Bengi Güldoğan, Beyhan İslam, Bülent Tanju, Bülent Usta, Burçak Madran, Burçak Özlüdil, Can Altay, Cem Akaş, Cem Yücel, Deniz Aktan Küçük, Didem Danış, Ekin Sanaç, Ela Çil, Emre Ayvaz, Emre Zeytinoğlu, Ersin Altın, Evren Üzer, Faruk Göksu, Fatih Özgüven, Funda Uz Sönmez, Gila Benmayor, Gökhan Özgün, Gül Koksal, Gülsün Tanyeli, Hakan Tüzün Şengün, Hakkı Yırtıcı, Hülya Hatipoğlu, İlkay Baliç, İpek Yada Akpınar, Işıl Baysan Serim, İsmet Elif Kılıç, James Hakan Dedeoğlu, Kathrin Wildner, Kerem Öktem, Kevin Robins, Levent Şentürk, Meltem Ahıska, Meltem Türköz, Meriç Öner, Murat Sanal, Nalân Bahçekapılı, Namık Erkal, Nermin Saybaşılı, Nora Şeni, Orhan Esen, Osman Cenk Demiroğlu, Özge Açıkkol, Pelin Tan, Peter Taylor, Rinaldo Marmara, Saadet Özen, Saitali Köknar, Şebnem Köşer Akçapar, Senem Akçay, Senem Deviren, Sıla Durhan, Şükrü Aslan, Süreyyya Evren, TangörTan, Tolga İslam, UğurTanyeli, Ulus Atayurt, Yıldız Salman,Yoshiko Tsuruta, Zeynep Kuban, Zeynep Mennan, Zühre Sözeri