An empirical assessment of the Istanbul International Financial Centre Project

Yıldırım, Tansu; Mullineux, Andy

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.05.008

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“…3 Critically, the story is similar for other interstitial cities, with Moscow making the same transition, while Vienna, Budapest and Lisbon all moved from beta + to alpha-. By focusing on different facets of the global economy (business and professional services, financialisation, high-skilled labour, international management, real estate, infrastructure-transport-logistics, planning and governance) a global city perspective is key to unlocking the processes by which cities such as Istanbul are fulfilling particular strategic roles, examining the strategies through which they seek greater global integration and assessing the implications (Keyder and O ¨ncu¨, 1994;Sassen, 2019;Yıldırım and Mullineux, 2015). Yet, with this comes limitations.…”

Section: Perspective I: Global Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing comparative urbanism differently: Conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory

2020

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Ongoing splintering and siloification in urban studies require alternative approaches to bring the major theoretical and epistemological perspectives into constructive dialogue. Reflecting growing calls for engaged pluralism, we analyse the extent to which different perspectives can come together as complementary alternatives in understanding cities and present a framework for overcoming the key theoretical and methodological challenges caused by fragmentation. Using Istanbul as our illustrative case, we do this in three steps. Theoretically, we stress-test the potentials and limits of four dominant perspectives in urban theory making – global cities, state rescaling, developmental and postcolonial – revealing how each can only ever generate a partial, one-dimensional, explanation. Methodologically, we proceed to make the case for doing comparative urbanism differently by developing a conjunctural approach. Finally, and conceptually, we identify ‘conjunctural cities’ as a distinctive type of city and as a new approach to analysing cities. Our contention is that approaching all cities conjuncturally provides a significant step towards putting engaged pluralism into action, as well as indicating new terrain on which the future of urban theory/urban studies can be constructively debated.

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Section: Perspective I: Global Citiesmentioning

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Doing comparative urbanism differently: Conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory

2020

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“…Similarly, Yildirim and Mullineux (2015) employed a data set on 200 senior managers about weighting the competitiveness of Istanbul on a Likert scale from 1 to 5. Using factor analysis, they used 19 indices collected from a questionnaire and divided them into two criteria, competitiveness and infrastructure.…”

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Necessary conditions for establishing an international financial center in Asia

Nguyen

2020

Cogent Business & Management

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The Geographical Size Index for Ranking and Typology of Cities

2019

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Development of world cities ranking is one of the leading and the most popular direction in geourbanistic studies in the Twenty-first century. The paper examines the application of a methodology that utilizes the geographic size index for ranking world cities. The approach is based on a synthesis of classical parameters of economic geography-territory, population and gross domestic product at purchasing power parity. The methodology was applied to 150 cities around the world, and the results of the ranking are presented in a series of maps. The studied agglomerations form several unique types. With the apparent leadership of New York and Tokyo, the grouping of the remaining cities varies considerably, depending on the set of parameters used. The resulting typology adequately reflects the situation in the modern urbosphere.

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An empirical assessment of the Istanbul International Financial Centre Project

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Doing comparative urbanism differently: Conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory

Doing comparative urbanism differently: Conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory

Necessary conditions for establishing an international financial center in Asia

The Geographical Size Index for Ranking and Typology of Cities

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