July, 3, 2014
Whittaker, C.R., 1990. “The Consumer city revisted: the vicus and the city”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 3, pp. 110-118.
Click to access whittaker-1990.pdf
Henry Maguire. Gardens and Parks in Constantinople, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 2000, pp. 251-264
Click to access Gardens%20and%20Parks%20in%20Constantinople%20.pdf
Kaldjian, P. Istanbul’s Bostans: a Millennium of Market Gardens. Geographical Review 94(3), 2004, 284-304.
Click to access Istanbul%27s%20Bostans%20A%20Millennium%20of%20Market%20Gardens%20%20.pdf
Necipoglu, Gülru. 1997. The Suburban Landscape of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul as a Mirror of Classical Ottoman Garden Culture.” In Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires: Theory and Design, edited by Attilio Petruccioli, Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, pp. 32-71
Click to access Necipoglu%20-%20Suburban%20landscape%200f%20sixteenth%20century%20Istanbul%20%20.pdf
Shopov, Aleksandar and Ayhan Han. Osmanlı Istanbul’unda Kent Içi Tarımsal Toprak Kullanımı ve Dönüsümleri: Yedikule Bostanları, Toplumsal Tarih, 236, August 2013, 34 – 38. (English translation)
July, 8
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, 1975, Oxford University Press, pp.1-12
Click to access the%20country%20and%20the%20city%20-%20raymond%20williams.pdf
Cassianus, Bassus, Geoponika: Farm Work: A Modern Translation of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook. Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, 2011, 9-55 and 246- 267.
Click to access Dalby%20A.%2C%20Geoponika.pdf
Brubaker, Leslie. The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana, in Byzantine Garden Culture ed., Anthony Littlewood, Henry Maguire and Joachim Wolschke – Bulmahn, 189-214
Click to access byzgarch10.pdf
July , 10
Maria Mavrudi and Mary-Lyon Dolezal, “Theodore Hyrtakenos’ Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Byzantine Descriptions of Gardens.” In Byzantine Garden Culture, eds. A. Littlewood, H. Maguire, J. Wolschke-Buhlmann, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C, 2002, 105-158.
Shirine Hamadeh, Public spaces and the garden culture of Istanbul, in The Early Modern Ottomans, edited by Virginia Aksan and Daniel Goffman, 2007, 277-312.
Click to access public%20spaces%20and%20the%20garden%20culture%20in%20istanbul.pdf
Byzantine Typika:
(Twelfth century) Typikon of Athanasios Philanthropenos for the Monastery of St. Mamas in Constantinople (trans. Anastasius Bandy)
(Thirteenth century) Typikon of Theodora Palaiologina for the Convent of Lips in Constantinople (trans. Alice-Mary Talbot)
Typikon of Theodora Palaiologina for the Convent of Sts. Kosmas and Damian in Constantinople (trans. Alice-Mary Talbot)
Inalcık, Halil. 2012 . The Survey of Istanbul 1455: The Text, English Translation, Analysis of the Text, Documents. İstanbul, Turkey: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2012, preface, introduction and pp. 295- 368.
The Survey of the Bustans (Gardens) in Istanbul intramural from 1735. (unpublished, english translation)
July 15 and 17
Bevan, A., Conolly, J., Colledge, S., Frederick, C., Palmer, C., Siddall, R. & Stellatou, A. 2013. The
Long-Term Ecology of Agricultural Terraces and Enclosed Fields from Antikythera, Greece. Human Ecology 41(2): 255-272.
Conolly, J., & M. Lake. 2006. First Principles. In Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology.
Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 11-32.
Click to access Conolly%20and%20Lake%202006%20First%20Principles.pdf
Goodchild, H. 2012. GIS Models of Roman Agricultural Production. In A. Bowman & A. Wilson (ed.)
The Roman Agricultural Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 55-84.
Click to access Goodchild%202012%20GIS%20models%20of%20Roman%20Agricultural%20Production.pdf
Ingold, T. 2000. To Journey Along a Way of Life. In T. Ingold The Perception of the Environment.
Click to access Ingold%202000%20To%20journey%20along%20a%20way%20of%20life.pdf
Preston, B., & M. Wilson. In press. Practicing GIS as Mixed-Method: Affordances and Limitations in
an Urban Gardening Study. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Available at http://www.uky.edu/~mwwi222/papers/preston_wilson_forthcoming-Annals_distrib.pdf
July 22 and 24
Professor Gulay Yedekçi lectured on Urban Transformation in Istanbul and urban agriculture.
Click to access Geoponika_Book%2012.pdf
Click to access Istanbul%27s%20Bostans%20A%20Millennium%20of%20Market%20Gardens%20%20.pdf
Click to access Popper%20and%20Hastorf.pdf
Click to access Toussaint%20Samat.pdf
August 5 and 7
Professor Gulay Yedekçi lectured on Urban Transformation in Istanbul and her work on the Yedikule gardens.
Click to access THE%20RIGHT%20TO%20THE%20CITY%20David%20Harvey%20.pdf
August 12 and 14
Click to access Harvey_2001.pdf
Click to access ICOMOS_FlorenceCharter_1981.pdf
Click to access Ricci_2008.pdf
City and Agriculture 
I noticed a 15th C. imperial Vakfiye at the tour of the Sabanci University Museum yesterday. Unfortunately, it didn’t endow a bostan, but getting to see an example was nevertheless interesting.