This book includes a serial of problematic issues highlighting the subject of apprehension and debate in today’s turbulent İstanbul. The aim of the design and editorial decisions are influenced by a variety of writers' diverse perceptions of Istanbul.
The redesigned book "Becoming Istanbul” makes intimate contact with the reader, as inductively it draws the reader in allowing inference, impression, and interpretation to be made on a much more personal level, much facilitated via the texts that form a foundation for the images, placed subtly between pages to conjure the experience of discovery.
Essentially, a city so vast and overwhelming as Istanbul, can only be experienced by active penetration, therefore, the above rationale was employed in order to bring about its fruition.
