Özet:

Gerhard Kessler is one of the scientists who migrated to Turkey after the National Socialist Party led by Hitler arrived in power in Germany with the harder living and working conditions. He was a social-political identity before his immigration, trying to reveal the economic-social problems created by industrialization in Germany and to produce solutions that monitor the inter-class balance. Kessler, who continued his work in Turkey, has transferred his accumulation of knowledge in subjects such as trade union, cooperativism, insurance. One of the topics he stood on in Turkey between 1933-1951 was the city. He has directed the work of urban planning and implementation to Turkey which has not yet been “tough” inclined. Kessler, who dealt with the housing problem around the city in general, also focused on the situation of Istanbul in the 1930s and 1940s, where he lived for 18 years, and wanted to give the public 'city awareness' primarily by local governors. In this framework, he argued that a road map should be drawn by expressing his observations on the districts of Istanbul. The purpose of our article is to discuss Kessler’s contribution to local urban sociology and urban production through Istanbul during his stay in Turkey.