The negative effects of construction boom on urban planning and environment in Turkey: Unraveling the role of the public sector

Balaban, Osman

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2011.05.003

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“…The state has played a leading role in this process, especially after 2002 (when the AKP government came to political power), by enforcing new laws, reorganizing planning powers and instigating large-scale projects (Balaban, 2012;Eraydin, 2012). Through such top-down regulations and projects, the state has consolidated its control over the production of space (Kuyucu & Ünsal, 2010;Penpecioglu, 2011).…”

Section: Turkish Planners Under Cross Pressures Between Entrepreneurimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This shift gained momentum under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, whose economic policies pursued strong economic growth aimed at legitimizing socio-political and institutional change, based on conservative value systems and strong religious rhetoric (Eraydin & Tasan-Kok, 2013). Instead of relying on market dynamics, the state adopted a more active role, facilitating urban regeneration and huge investments with mega projects; assigning special rights and responsibilities to central state departments; and imposing new regulations, laws and decrees (Balaban, 2012;Eraydın, 2012;Penpecioglu, 2011). These authoritarian state-regulated conditions are characteristic of the hybrid neoliberal regime in Turkey, which cherishes entrepreneurialism from the scale of the individual to the state.…”

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Alienated and politicized? Young planners’ confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state intervention in urban development in Turkey

Penpecioğlu

Taşan‐Kok

2016

European Planning Studies

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Planning in Turkey is dominated by powerful market interests and authoritarian state regulation, resulting in a conflictual socio-political environment. Caught in the crossfire between interventionist urban policies and a planning education system that is oriented towards the public good, planners have come to feel alienated from their work. This paper considers how young planners respond to these challenges, drawing upon questionnaires and semi-structured in-depth interviews with planners with fewer than 10 years of experience. Their confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state interventions in urban development alienates them from their ideals, leading them to explore new ways of dealing with increasing political authority and economic neoliberalism. The participants of the study came up with a number of diverse responses related to this process. Disappointed with the practice of their profession 'lost planners' begin searching for alternative pathways outside their practice towards a more meaningful society. In contrast, 'profiteer planners' focus on getting more business and play a conformist and opportunistic role in the existing planning practice; while 'struggling planners' develop alternative ways to pursue the public good by participating in urban movements. In short, they cope with alienation through politicization, solidarity and the identification of new means of engaging with society. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Alienated and politicized? Young planners’ confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state intervention in urban development in Turkey

Penpecioğlu

Taşan‐Kok

2016

European Planning Studies

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“…Construction sector is regarded as a driving force of the Turkish economy (Balaban, 2012). In the 2000s, in Turkey, forestlands were put on sale, the construction of environmentallyunfriendly hydroelectric power plants became a topic of debate, industrial sites in cities were evacuated, and TOKI's (Housing Development Administration) field of activity was expanded.…”

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Rebuilding Of Beyoğlu-İstiklal Street: A Comparative Analysis Of Urban Transformation Through Sections Along The Street 2004-2014

Tekin¹,

Gültekin²

2017

METU JFA

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“…On the other hand, a series of approaches and metrics have been developed to measure the sprawling process with different focuses during the past decades [1,21,22]. Hasse proposed a series of five indicators in relation to several critical land resource impacts associated to sprawl and applied to 566 municipalities in New Jersey [23].…”

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A Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Measuring on Urban Sprawl: A Case Study in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, Central China

Zeng

Cui

2014

Sustainability

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Chinese cities are experiencing rapid urban expansion and being transformed into more dispersed urban form which necessitate the quantification of fine-scale intra-urban characteristics for sustainable urban development. We propose an integrated multi-level and multi-dimensional method to characterize urban sprawl and apply it to Wuhan, a typical metropolitan area in central China from 1996 to 2006. The specifications of levels are parcel at micro-level, district at meso-level and metropolitan area at macro-level. The measurements are implemented in seven dimensions: composition, configuration, gradient, density, proximity, accessibility and dynamics. Metrics are assigned to each dimension and innovative metrics such as derived contagion index, distance-based correlation coefficient and weighted centroid migration are defined to quantify the sprawling process. This bottom-up approach is capable of exploring spatio-temporal variation of urban growth at finer scales, capturing the multi-dimensional features of urban sprawl and providing policy implications for authorities at different levels. The results reveal that industrial sites and built-up land for special use are the most scattered and randomly distributed land use types, parcels and districts at the urban fringe present higher fragmentation than those in the urban core areas and urban expansion is largely enforced by assigning development zones. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 3572

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The negative effects of construction boom on urban planning and environment in Turkey: Unraveling the role of the public sector

Cited by 129 publications

References 15 publications

Alienated and politicized? Young planners’ confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state intervention in urban development in Turkey

Alienated and politicized? Young planners’ confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state intervention in urban development in Turkey

Rebuilding Of Beyoğlu-İstiklal Street: A Comparative Analysis Of Urban Transformation Through Sections Along The Street 2004-2014

A Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Measuring on Urban Sprawl: A Case Study in Wuhan Metropolitan Area, Central China

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