İlhan Tekeli engages with three powerful concepts that are often overlooked: everyday life, quality of life, and locality. For Tekeli, these three notions express the fundamental dynamics that shape the deepest layers of social structure. Looking beyond our routines and opening up a way to think everyday life, quality of life, and locality together, Tekeli offers an alternative perspective to dominant social science paradigms centred on the nation-state and development, charting a new course for social analysis. He questions the limits of consumption-oriented approaches to quality of life and discusses how a satisfying quality of life might be made possible within a sustainable social order. Locality, in turn, is treated not as a static object of nostalgia but as the dynamic product of complex and ever-changing processes. This book invites readers to embark on a journey into the ordinary, to rethink the potential of the local, and to look at quality of life from a different vantage point.

Prof. Dr. Suphi Saatçi s seminal 2020 work Mimar Sinan of Marmara offers an up-to-date inventory of historical buildings in the Marmara Region that have been lost or are at risk of disappearance. Among the more than 400 completed works of Mimar Sinan spread across the Middle East and the Balkans, over 380 are located in the Marmara Region.