In the twenty-first century that we are living, most of the contemporary metropolises are
under constant visual electronic surveillance under the name of security and public safety.
Istanbul as being one of the big cities has joined this surveilled metropolises / its streets
and public spaces are under constant watch by the invisible watchers behind the
MOBESE cameras. The way that the system works on how to impose power on the
citizens with the constant observation has it roots in the design principle of Panopticon
that Jeremy Bentham created long time ago. Today, Bentham&rsquo / s eighteenth century design
Panopticon has dispersed and merged into the urban scale and replaced by these
surveillance cameras. The observation tower and the guardian in panopticon have
transformed into the main control room and the cameras. Citizens in Istanbul are under
a panoptic power of surveillance. Ordinary citizen is being watched by the invisible
guardians behind the cameras. The ones behind the cameras constantly see everything,
but never seen by the citizens. This thesis attempts to discuss this assumption of Istanbul
becoming an urban panopticon and its affects on the physical layout together with the
social aspect of it in Istanbul. One of the main objectives is to investigate the
consequences of this visual surveillance on the way that the public life and public spaces
of Istanbul is affected.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609379/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 February 2008 |
| Creators | Ozden, Ozge |
| Contributors | Sargin, Guven Arif |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.Arch. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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