reclaiming spaces: urban transformations

Strolling through the streets of Tuzla, we pass by shops and street sellers selling blue overalls, gloves and security helmets, workshops producing larger or smaller ship parts, the manifold supplier industry, workers gathered around a minibus serving as a mobile teahouse during breaks, men smoking, smoking and working for the subcontractor, the ‘taşeron’. Life south [...]

Posted on April 29th, 2010 under Istanbul. Tags: Istanbul, shipyards, Tuzla. Comments: None