The Construction of a New City : Ankara 1923-1933  which is edited by Ali Cengizkan and N. Müge Cengizkan, within the scope of 50th anniversary of Vehbi Koç Foundation aims to contirbute to Ankara’s modern history. The catalogue is examining the first decade of the establishment of Ankara as the capital, modernization and installation especially in “Yenişehir” and focuses on how a new city was constructed in the first quarter of the twentieth century, in a war-torn country in old Ankara / new Ankara dilemma, from the proclamation of the Republic until 1933, the tenth year of the Republic. It is explained how Yenişehir’s tabula rasa position in 1923 was turned into Kızılay in 1933. The meaning of society’s necessity for a “new building” have been depicted by sharing the experiences and the ideas of the dwellers of the city, dissolution of the planned environment within social dynamics and the gaps in historiography are critically put forward.