University of California Press Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Wolfgang Schivelbusch The Railway Journey The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century With a New Preface Copyright © 2014.
The Railway Journey : The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, 2014. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(2), 87-94. They were not only economical achievements of the state they also affected their physical and social environments and introduced the modern way of living particularly where they were set up. That explains why the factories which were set up all around the country had played such a crucial role in the modernization period of Turkey at the beginning of the Republican era. Secondly, the small towns or settlements of the country were supposed to become modern cities, the places of modernity, just like the modern cities of the industrial and developed countries of the world. The Government’s first goal was to turn the country into the space of National Turkish Republic State from an empire’s land. Besides from its economical, political and social goals, the Republican Government had aimed to change the physical appearance of the country.
The economical dimension included the industrialization and economical independence of Turkey. This project had different dimensions appealing to the institutional, economical, social and civic aspects of Turkey. Right after the Turkish War of Independence, The Republican Government of Turkey had aimed to establish an independent country and started to carry out a modernization and contemporization project. This research is an attempt to understand the industrialization period of Turkey’s Early Republican Period (1930’s) and the spatial effects of the new production system. The starting point of this study is the fact that every production system entails a specific spatial organization and changes its physical environment. Industrialization and Urbanization in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th Century