Separation and rising conservatism: an assessment of Istanbul at the city center and periphery
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2016
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City centers constitute the beginning of the urbanization adventure for migrants. The centers of the large cities of developing countries in particular are areas where all sorts of urban facilities are found in the greatest density. The use of the dilapidated and derelict housing stocks by migrants has always created an affordable environment for their process of urbanization. The diversity, quantity, and relatively high quality of the facilities located in the city center also supports the urbanization efforts of these groups.
However the development, transformation, and renewal processes of these areas that have emerged as a result of the pressure of globalization that has begun to be experienced particularly in developing large cities weakens the relatively advantageous position of migrants in the city center. The rise in a short period of time of purchase prices in the city’s land market has brought about a change of hand of the building stock in the center, and the center has begun to change its function through renovation projects in cases where conditions were amenable. Some residential areas however have not been included in this transformation due to the resistance of inhabitants to this pressure to renovate, and due to the absence of fully amenable conditions.
With the increasing efficacy of the practice of protection and with its spread into wider groups within society, the migrants living in the city center have strengthened their ties of ownership with their living spaces, and began to fight for these spaces.
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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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