online data sources


Journals and Texts:

http://meria.idc.ac.il/ Middle East Review of International Affairs

urban studies

turkish studies

new perspectives on turkey

www.insightturkey.com

http://jis.oxfordjournals.org Journal of Islamic Studies

www.urban-age.net   texts about Istanbul from Urban Age Conference 2009

Reports:


www.iied.org Publications of The International Institute for Environment and Development

www.tusev.org.tr publications of TÜSEV, third sector foundation of Turkey

civicus.org country reports on civil society development in Turkey

What does Turkey think? (2011)   Report of mercator foundation and others

Global Metro Monitor (2010)

UN AGFE (2009)

UNESCO (2009)

UNESCO (2008)

UNESCO (2006)

OEC Better Life Index

OECD review Istanbul (2010)

OECD review Istanbul (2008)

OECD Bookshop 

LSE Cities Global Metro Monitor

BCG (2010)

UN Human Development Reports  

UN Habitat "State of the World´s Cities 2010/2011" Report

UN World Urbanization Prospects. The 2007 Revision.

"The Challenge of Slums" - UN Gobal Report on Human Settlement 2003 with some 2010 updates

UN Habitat - Global Reports on Human Settelments  

UN Millennium Development Goals Reports

UN Millennium Goals Interactive Map  

Estimated Future Global Population Distribution 2015 

Kent raporu by IMECE (report on urban transformation between 2004 - 2009) - only turkish
 
3rd bridge report by IMECE - only turkish

Master Card Study on emerging markets (2008)

Dynamics of Urban Change (collected ressources by DPU of UCL, London)



Laws:

Urban Transformation Laws
http://www.mevzuat.adalet.gov.tr/html/1509.html   law 5366  (in turkish) 2005

http://www.mevzuat.adalet.gov.tr/html/1525.html   law 5393  (in turkish) 2005

http://www.mevzuat.adalet.gov.tr/html/30630.html  law 5998 (in turkish), amendment of article 73 of law 5393 2010

http://www.mevzuat.adalet.gov.tr/html/628.html  law 2863 (in turkish) 1983 Protection Law

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law 5366 (in english) 2005

law 5393 (in english) 2005

law 5393 (in german) amendment of article 73 (2010)

law 5216 (in english) Greater City Law
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Laws concerning civil society organisations

http://www.mevzuat.adalet.gov.tr/html/640.html law 2908 (in turkish) 1983

http://www.mevzuat.adalet.gov.tr/html/1421.html law 5253 (in turkish) 2004

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definition of real right

Statistics:

http://cityforward.org IBM Software that makes city data available (careful)

Turkey´s Statistical Yearbook 2010

Revenues of top 100 US companies (by Fortune Magazine)

http://stats.oecd.org  OECD Statisitcs f.e. REAL GDP GROWTH RATES

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ OECD Index screening the quality of life in 34 countries

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu  Statistical Data of European Union

http://www.turkstat.gov.tr  Statistical Data of Turkey

http://www.dpt.gov.tr/ing TR Ministry of Development 

CIA World Fact Book: Turkey

Atlas of Urban Expansion from the Lincoln Institute

The Economist Intelligence Unit

Der Spiegel - Die Welt in Zahlen (the world in numbers)

www.citypopulation.de

www.indexmundi.com

www.indexmundi.com Birthrate map

http://www.demography-lab.prd.uth.gr/links-en.asp great link list about demography  

oecd factbook 2013 

Maps:

http://www.mulksuzlestirme.org Networks of Dispossession

http://www.telestrian.com/   A Way to Find, Look At, Analyze, and Display Civic Data

http://sehirrehberi.ibb.gov.tr  Map and Aerial images of Istanbul from 1946 up to today

http://kentseldonusum.info   Map of Urban Transformation Projects in Turkey

www.beyoglu.bel.tr/beyoglu Map of Neigborhoods of Beyoglu District

http://88.255.77.38/webgis/?caid=1014 Interactive Map for Fatih District (Microsoft Silverlight needed)

UN Millennium Goals Interactive Map  

Real Estate Platforms:

http://www.emlak.net

http://www.emlaktown.com

www.hurriyetemlak.com offer of appartments in Maltepe Basibüyük and Narcity

http://havadanemlak.com offer of appartments in Maltepe Basibüyük

Networks of Cities and Decision Makers:

http://www.inta-aivn.org

http://www.worldmayor.com/

http://www.polismed.org/en/about.html 

Think Tanks:

www.strategicforesight.com

www.setav.org
 


Research Projects/Institutions about Istanbul:

Changing imaginations of Istanbul Emmy Noether Group at LMU Munich



Earthquake:

www.gfz-potsdam.de German Research Centre for Geosciences

www.imb.kit.edu/mb
Institut für Massivbau und Baustofftechnologie (IMB), Karlsruhe

www.statik.tu-berlin.de
Institute for statics and dynamics of the Technichal University, Berlin


Mapping: 

http://netmap.wordpress.com/ 

Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes
 

Data Visualization: 

visualizing.org

www.visualcomplexity.com

www.vis4.net

www.impure.com


http://nordpil.com/

www.informationisbeautiful.net 

http://www.opendataday.org
List of tools to scrape data from the net

http://www.visual-literacy.org 
Periodic table of data visualization 

http://www.revolvermaps.com

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great stuff:
population-growth 

http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/comparinator/pluralitymap.htm Mapping of the Distribution of Ethnicity in major US American Cities 

Crowdfunding:

http://conference.make.tv/dfjv-konnekt 

Miscellaneous:

http://www.beyoglu.net/default.asp?Beyoglu=Kamerhatun-Mahallesi-Muhtarligi Names, Telephone and Adresses of all Muhtars of all neighborhoods in Beyoglu