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In June 2013, a small group of environmental activists put up tents in one of the only
remaining public green spaces in the heart of Istanbul. Private financiers with the
backing of the conservative ruling party dedicated to neoliberal economic development
and without a proper public mandate had positioned bulldozers to begin the
construction of a shopping complex couched in the faux-historical trappings of an
Ottoman barrack. First the trees were to go, and with them, according to the activists,
something vital to the well-being of the city. When the Turkish writer Ahmet Hamdi
Tanpınar wrote in 1946 that “[O]ur great architects never failed to set several cypress
and plane trees beside their buildings” and that when an architect or “pious donor”
planted a tree he knew that it was “entrusted to the earth” as “a gift of value, a talisman
securing a neighborhood, a district, even a whole community,” he was speaking deep
from within a tradition of honoring urban nature (Tanpınar 461). Cities and nature, the
man-made and the organic, are conceived of as mutually inclusive, rather than mutually
exclusive, designs in his discussion. Rather than landscaping, or decorative
supplements to manufactured structures, trees are essential to the physical, aesthetic,
and even spiritual health of a population.
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