ERC Starting Grant · 2024
How the middle class housed itself in the Eastern Mediterranean
MCH-EsMed critically explores housing as a blind-spot in the post-war history of the Eastern Mediterranean, one of the world’s most volatile regions, marked by war, ethnic tensions, migration flows, and climate change. The research focuses on the vast spread of mid-sized condominium apartment buildings during the second half of the 20th century in four prominent cities: Athens, Ankara, Cairo, and Tel Aviv. Known as ‘polykatoikía’ in Greece, ‘müteahhit yapımı apartman’ in Turkey, ‘al-'Imara’ in Egypt, and ‘bait-Meshutaf’ in Israel, these structures were the prevalent form of middle-class housing during the period under study. The central hypothesis of this project is that comparative…
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