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
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
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
http://www.zib.de/de/visual/vergleichende-visualisierung.html research project on data vizualization
http://www.wordle.net/
http://www.wordle.net/
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
