@k8bthere Meagan Day knows just what youve been waiting for and the whole hierarchy it implies. Hmmm. Maybe. Here she is with Waiting In Istanbul, shared here from the always awesome n+1 magazine. https://nplusonemag/online-only/foreign-affairs/waiting-in-istanbul/ Meagan begins: MY BUS HOME FROM WORK takes me on a crawl down the Bosphorus coast so slow that I wonder if it might be faster to walk, though I’ve never tried. In Istanbul, even short commutes are often protracted. The city was home to about three million people in the early 1980s, and the population has grown five-fold in the intervening decades. Infrastructurally, there’s been no keeping up with the unprecedented influx of migrants from Anatolia, as well as economic immigrants from neighboring regions—the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East—and intermittent waves of refugees from nearby conflict zones, primarily Syria. The city’s escalating population density results in, among other things, congestion.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:55:05 +0000
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