When the urban projects for regeneration turned out to be true, not a myth, and the demolition for the Tarlabaşı district was confirmed, many people I know rushed to the area to say goodbye, and to make pictures of the buildings soon to be knocked down....
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Another arty day around Galata... Graffiti works get disappeared so quickly here so don't expect to see these works of art if you walk around Galata today.
In the name of regeneration, the old historic neighborhood of Istanbul, Tarlabaşı, will be confined to the memories of Istanbullites very soon. It used to be inhabited mostly by the Greeks since the mid 1800s and by migrants from Anatolia since the 1960s....
There is this continuous noise wherever you are in the city, which I call the third world noise -not a politically correct way of putting it, but unfortunately you cannot help. Shopping malls not enough. Hotels not enough. Luxury condos not enough. Bridges...
Graffiti is no longer considered a kind of vandalism, at least in the art world, and the shift from typography to other forms of symbolic expression is clear in Istanbul, too. I came across these ones in a district, which is going through gentrification...
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