This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and cultures has affected the spatiotemporal landscapes of the nation at different periods of contemporary Turkey, with an emphasis on various narratives of the relocating population and their relationship to the environment.

Contemporary cities are constantly changing due to the movement of people from different regions, resulting in shifting population patterns globally. Understanding displacement and its effects on space are crucial in studying this phenomenon, as it not only involves the physical relocation of individuals, but also the transfer of cultural practices within a condensed timeframe. This process changes the destination of settlements irreversibly. This book takes a methodological approach and disclinary approach, examining the migration and displacement of people and its effects upon art, architecture, culture and politics in Turkish cities.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in migration and its effects on cities, urban planning and architecture.

Ela Alanyalı Aral is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Middle East Technical University, Ankara. After receiving her Ms.Science degree in Architecture on the Visual Structuring of Ankara, she studied the Potentialities of Leftover Spaces for the Public Realm in her Ph.D. (METU) and Creative Mapping in Architecture in her post-doc studies (TUDelft). Ela Alanyalı Aral has several printed articles in international journals such as Landscape Research and METU Journal of Faculty of Architecture. She is the editor of the book 'Mapping Syrian Migration -Migrant Spaces in Ankara' (2018, Ankara: METU Faculty of Architecture Press). She has continued her research on creative mapping techniques, displacement in the urban context, and possible contributions of leftover spaces to the city and the Ankara tumuli.

Özlem Erdogdu Erkarslan obtained her undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Department of Architecture at Dokuz Eylül University. She started her research on gender and space issues related to her previous research areas in the early 2000s. In 2002, she was awarded the Milka Bliznakov Joint Fellowship Award for her article that investigated the role of Turkish women architects in the cultural development of modernity during the early Republic period. Erkarslan played an active role in the preparation of the project titled "2017: Cities in transition: locality, identity, and experience of place: issues for migrant and minority ethnic groups in rapidly emerging urban developments and typologies together." This project formed the first step of the book and was funded by the Newton Fund in 2017, and she remained actively involved until its realization. Since 2021, she has also been publishing on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of Istanbul Aydin University, in addition to numerous book chapters and articles on gender and space.