Özet:

The aim of this study, entitled “Analyzing the State-Society Relationships through the Development of an Urban Space: Izmir Konak Square”, is to examine public buildings, which were constructed in Konak Square from 1922 to 1970 to represent state power and state- society relationship. In this context, the period from the beginning of the Great Fire of Izmir in 1922 to the fire of 1970 in Izmir is to be examined. The main questions of this study are to track all of these developments, what were the public buildings in the Konak Square at the beginning of 1922 and the transformations they underwent the process? What were the public buildings that were constructed, their function in the representation of the state power, their roles in the state-society relationships? Which of these buildings went through a change and what were the relationship between this change and the transformation of the state.

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