What Happened When Istanbul Opened Streets to People

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By Brad AaronJul 22, 2015, 11:21 am80 pts
Map of the Istanbul Historic Peninsula, with pedestrianized streets in blue. Image: EMBARQ Turkey via TheCityFix By the end of the 20th century, the Historic Peninsula of Istanbul had a serious pollution problem. Writing for TheCityFix, Tuğçe Üzümoğlu says air quality was so bad that historic sites and…

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