"Istanbul: A City Growing in "Overdrive"
by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey on 04.16.11
The Istanbul most visitors see -- the Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of ferries on the Bosphorus, bargaining in the bazaar, and bustling nightlife -- lies within just a few of the city's more than 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is the one I watch out the window of a bus for around two hours each day, an Istanbul of factories and freeways, of grey concrete buildings, trash-strewn empty lots, and -- most of all -- traffic."
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