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    Between demolition and (un)intended conservation: The approach of the Ottoman state to the istanbul city walls in the light of the nineteenth-century archival documents
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022-08-12) Bilgin, Elif Acar; Çorakbaş, Figen Kıvılcım; ACAR BİLGİN, ELİF; KIVILCIM ÇORAKBAŞ, FİGEN; Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi/Mühendislik Fakültesi/Mimarlık Bölümü; 0000-0001-6932-3703; 0000-0001-9589-9757; AAH-2812-2021; ABD-9438-2022
    City walls have played a significant role in the history of many cities in both Europe and Anatolia in the Middle Ages. Following the development of war technology, the city walls lost their importance as defensive structures, which led to changes in the urban patterns of walled cities.In the case of Istanbul, the city walls began to lose their defensive role after the Ottoman takeover of the city in the fifteenth century. However, the walls have continued to play new roles beyond defense, such as forming the city's physical, legal, and fiscal boundaries. The Ottoman authorities repaired and conserved the city walls in line with their changing roles, values and meaning for the city. Nevertheless, the city walls in Istanbul were damaged by earthquakes, city fires and particularly urban planning practices in the nineteenth century, as was the case in many walled cities.This paper discusses the intertwined history of preservation and demolition of the city walls by analyzing a cost estimate, dated 1894 and located in the Ottoman State Archives, which was prepared by the modernizing administration of the Ottoman State for the repairs of the Istanbul Land Walls.