City, History, Sociology: Korkut Tuna's Approach to The City

The subject of this paper is Korkut Tuna's book which is titled as Sehirlerin Ortaya Cikis ve Yayginlasmasi Uzerine Sosyolojik Bir Deneme. Relation of sociology with cities and urbanism can be traced back to its foundations. As the social problems that became more visible in cities changed since 19. century, theoritical and emprical studies regarding the subject has been done. Urban studies in Turkish sociology evolved in a similar line as in the West. Analysis of urbanisation and urban life was conducted on the basis of modernisation in Turkey. Urban studies, as in the West, became the subject of different disciplines. Among the similarities of the other approaches and perspectives, that initiated the accumulation of knowledge on urban and urbanism, Tuna's work gains its uniqeness by his historical approach on emergence and dissemination of cities. As the extended summary is given in the paper, his efforts of sistematisation attempt deserves to be put on the agenda.