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... then ı came to the alternatives.
The first alternative to the " image of the city " idea was "space-network theory" ..

The network of a city can be defined both in physical and social ways.

Physically; networks flows in lots of layers in the city area.
Transportation networks, quarters, squaers, roads, streets creates networks in the city. Also; other layers , like; infrastructure networks, electricity, telecommunication , canalization systems defines different networks at diffferent layers in city...

Social communities, neighborhoods, people from different religions, ethnics, culture even tastes creates social networks - like family tree, but the social network theory this time-.

When talking about the city and the networks the definition of "city of bits " is unavoidable.
The invisible cities of the 21st. century; like W.J.Miitchell says in 'City of Bits: city, place and the infobahn' MIT Press '95...
We have to reimagine the architechture and urbanism.
As the networks grow at the internet and the worlds of computer; we have to make the redefinition of the space and also personal identity. Because there is no common spaces that people meet; agoras, there are electronic agoras where people meet. This social networks identifies new spaces new communities...

In the end: I've changed my mind about the idea of space and network - to use in another project, another time..:)

My last standing point for my project has appeared in this question:

" How the city space can be expressed ,what can make the city area inordinary to perceive..?"

So; my proposal has been shaped in a different way from the “unique” image / “uniqueness” of the city against the process of globalization..

I am thinking to take the city; as a material , as a “huge vitrine” which will also express too chaotic, too complexive situation – this “too” situation- of the city area ; even in very close distance ,( metres, minutes, seconds..) in real or fictional ways..

Concept : İstanbul : too variable
too chaotic
mass
multiple ; even in very close distances, the whole texture, the whole fabric of the city changes , transforms...

Staring from the opposite side to this situation of the city: City could be perceived in different ways by the audience; not only the real facts...

Criteria : Analyzing the issue in:

Space: The physical space of the city , every physical space elements, every urban architecture.
Person: Citizen's effect to the city area ; shaping the city area.

Purpose : "Perceiving, reading the city area with the created scenes"
Showing what' s real and beyond real at the city space in extraordinary ways.
The project is actually interrogates the real one and its assimilation at the city...

Method : Creating big panoramas, huge vitrines with different techniques.( it sounded like a poem btw)
different techniques of photography
different techniques of production
Photography can define even change , manupulate the character of urban space.
In that case, I have to overview some extraordinary techniques ..........