Examines the first decade after the establishment of Ankara as
the capital of Turkey from the proclamation of the Turkish Republic in
1923 until 1933.

With a particular focus on the recently developed Yeni Şehir ("new city")
district of Ankara Ali Cengizkan and N. Müge Cengizkan chronicle the
construction of a new city center in war-torn Turkey in the first quarter of
the twentieth century. The authors fill critical gaps in the historiography of
the city by sharing the ideas and experiences of its dwellers exploring
the social dynamics of the dissolution of theplanned environment
and analyzing the causes and effects of modernization.