Disadvantaged women’s satisfaction with mass housing projects that are developed in the context of squatter housing regeneration: the case of Ankara, Turkey
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2016
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Since the endorsement of the “cities without slums” action plan at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, the pace of slum demolition increased starkly in many parts of the developing world. Ankara is one of these cities with a declining squatter housing population. Keles (1993) states that, in the year 1990, approximately 58% of the city’s population (1.74 of 3 million residents) was living in an informal or squatter housing, known as gecekondu (a Turkish expression for houses erected illegally in one night usually on public land). Although scholars like Karpat (1976: 24) describe gecekondus as “a source of poverty, rundown housing, crowded construction of lower-class people, high rate of crime and divorce, violence, (…), racial discrimination, (…), and later, urban guerrillas,” others like Duyar-Kienast (2005) discuss the positive attributes of these areas, including the strong sense of community, low-rise buildings with gardens, and the liveliness of public open spaces. According to a recent report published by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Internal Affairs (2013), by the year 2013, the number of people living in such settlements in Ankara decreased to approximately 7%. The Mass Housing Development Administration of Turkey’s Prime Ministry (TOKI), which is tasked with the mission of alleviating the country’s housing shortage and transforming the informal housing areas, play a key role in this transformation.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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