3 books
İlhan Tekeli (born 1937) is a Turkish city planner, academic, and writer whose research links urbanisation, settlement history, migration, local government, and democratic planning. The Development of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area Urban Administration and Planning provides the strongest English-language route into that work: it follows the expansion of Istanbul while treating administration and planning as institutions shaped by social change. Tekeli's broader scholarship asks how settlements acquire durable forms, how population movements alter regional systems, and why planning cannot be reduced to a closed technical exercise. That range makes the Istanbul study useful to readers interested in both the physical growth of a metropolis and the public structures behind it. Its detailed urban frame offers a focused entry into a body of work concerned with how places, institutions, and democratic choices continually remake one another.
