In this piece, I first introduce Pera’s nineteenth-century sewers as a gateway
to exploring the district’s interconnections with its surrounding geographies,
which requires a close study of infrastructural plans. I then propose the
methodological virtues of juxtaposing these with insurance maps, frequently
utilized in the conventional his…[Read more]

Review of Peter H. Christensen, Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.