Charlotta Widmark

This book mirrors a field trip to Istanbul conducted in May 2014. It was structured around surveys of the centrally located districts of Beyoglu, Eminönü and Fatih. Together the contributtions paint a picture or give a glimpse of the multifaceted and diversified city of Istanbul in which places are practiced and spaces being formed and given meaning in dialogue with historical battles, current social stratifications and societal struggles. Our hope is that this collection will inspire and provide some arguments for the potential of multidisciplinary studies conducted within the Faculty of Arts at Uppsala.

London Encounters, is an interdisciplinary study of slices of the life, history and the materiality of London. The book provides scholarly, yet accessible, aspects on urbanity in both history and the present. It has come about through the interdisciplinary research node The Good City, shich consists of senior researchers and Master's degree students from Uppsala University, Sweden. The Good City, Urbanism and Social Change is a cooperative interdisciplinary project involving the departments of Archaeology and Ancient History, Art History and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology within the Faculty of Arts at Uppsala University.