Social Cohesion in Housing Rehabilitation; A Study of Three Housing Areas in Istanbul
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1999
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Abstract
Planners are usually in favour of creating strong social ties in housing areas. Lots of models developed in history - from garden city to neighbourhood unit - intended to create social ties in newly developed urban areas. Existing community, on the other hand, is something that modern planning tends to ignore. Housing rehabilitation process is one of the cases in which planners inevitably have to involve local communities. Taking the term community within the framework freed from modern-traditional dichotomy, the thesis deals with especially low income immigrant urban communities who are living in bad environmental conditions, but seemingly have strong community ties. The aim of the thesis is to see whether these ties can constitute a base for an organization of housing rehabilitation.
Approach to the modern and the traditional
The thesis begins with some groups of questions;
1. What happened to the community in 'modern' cities of non-Western countries in the «global age»? How is the community distorted during so-called modernization and globalization processes? What kind of combinations is established between "modern" and "traditional" aspects of social life?
2. What is happening in low income immigrant neighborhoods in terms of "solidarity"? Can social relations be defined as "social cohesion" in these areas? What kind of social networks are established between low income nighborhoods and remaining parts of the city?
3. Can these social relations be developed as a base for further local organizations for housing rehabilitation?
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Book of abstracts : AESOP PhD workshop 1999, Finse, Depertment of Geography Univeristy of Bergen, Norway
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