TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kafescioglu,Cigdem
TI  - Constantinopolis-Istanbul: cultural encounter, imperial vision, and the construction of the Ottoman capital 
T2  - Buildings, landscapes, and societies
SN  - 978-0-271-02776-0
U1  - 720.949618 21E
PY  - 2009///
CY  - University Park (Penn.)
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Architecture, Ottoman
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Istanbul
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - Architecture and state
KW  - History
KW  - 15th century
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
KW  - In art
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 266-282; Between Edirne and Kostantiniyye: the city's first Ottoman years -- Constructing the city: architecture and its audiences -- The urban program and Mehmed II's foundation -- The patronage of the new ruling elite -- Memory, space, and vision in constructions of the Ottoman capital city -- Representing the city: Constantinople and its images -- Istanbul inhabited -- Epilogue: a picture from circa 1537
N2  - "Studies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation"--Provided by publisher
ER  -