Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGE The sun had begun to set on this wintry afternoon, bathing the Golden Horn in shadow.  We sto...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES He seemed to tense up slightly as we left the mosque and wandered into one of Istanbul’s hard-co...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Mr. Pamuk — fascinated and disturbed by the rise of political Islam in Turkey and the Middle Eas...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES We entered the grounds of the Fatih Mosque, built on the orders of Fatih Sultan Mehmed, the conq...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES A few steps away we ducked into Vefa Bozacisi, another of his favorite places.  Founded in 1...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Beyazit Square, a windswept plaza behind the book bazaar, abuts Istanbul University, formerly th...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES The tale was a historical romance set in 15th-century Anatolia, the vast hinterland east of Ista...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Not far away was another symbol of Ottoman hubris: the monumental central post office, opened in...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES The autobiography, published in 2001, brought Mr. Pamuk’s life story up to his decision to becom...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES In “Istanbul,” Mr. Pamuk captured the melancholy, or huzun, that infused the metropolis during h...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Within these few square blocks, the Ottoman rulers commissioned grandiose palaces and other buil...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES On the south side of the Golden Horn, we pushed past crowds in the Baharat spice bazaar, and eme...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGE A century ago, “all the boats that came from the Sea of Marmara, from the Mediterranean, ended up...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Half a mile down the Golden Horn a new bridge has just opened, a sleek white span that partly bl...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES We continued across the Galata Bridge, the historic epicenter of Istanbul, stopping midway to ad...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES “I had little interest in Byzantium as a child,” Mr. Pamuk wrote in “Istanbul.”  “I associat...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Across the inlet, in stunning contrast to the scruffy surroundings, rose the silver dome of Hagi...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES We stopped for lunch in the shadow of the Galata Bridge, a double-decker concrete-and-steel span...

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Tucked off one steep avenue is an alley of government-sanctioned brothels guarded by the police....

NEW YORK TIMES WORDS/STEVE WRIGHT IMAGES Mr. Pamuk found the building himself, designed the exhibits and assembled his character’s fictio...