This Amazing New York Times Article Is The Only Thing You Need To Read About Protests In Turkey

Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times has published an amazing article about Istanbul's Taksim square -- where protests against plans to demolish Gezi Park have entered their ninth day -- and the power of public space. Kimmelman, the architecture critic for the Times, details why Taksim is "the heart of modern, multicultural Turkey" and may be Prime Minster Recep Erdogan's Achilles' heel. The power of public space, Kimmelman argues, is why the dissidence has been so successful: Revolutions hap...