Bolstered by an international urban honor and the recent opening of an ambitious, visually imposing modern art museum, the spotlight has turned on Eskisehir, a small Central Anatolian city that has slowly but surely become one of the most livable and likable in the country.
Late last year, Eskisehir, whose name means the old city, was chosen as one of the five finalists for the WRI Ross Prize For Cities thanks to a sweeping urban transformation effort led by Mayor Yilmaz Buyukersen, a former professor and administrator who has been in office for 20 years.
