Urban plannıng for whom? Dıscussıng spatıally constructıon of counter hegemony
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2016
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Basic question for us, urban plannners, is that for whom we practice this profession; %99 of the world or not. New urban space policy is reqiured and it is inevitable. This era gestate a shift to radical urban policies regarding all issues such as public space, housing, daily life, working conditions, economy, production and consumption patterns, environment and so on. Since space is a mere subject of capitalism and power relations, the essence of planning and urbanism which is principally aimed at creating equitarian and collective community, well-defined, qualified and convenient urban public spaces, has got loose. Dialectically, urban social movements for "urban right" increase in recent time. Rise of these movements are more or less associated with urban question. This article presents this claim with certain illustrations and makes an analytical geographical mapping for Middle East.
Upon these frequently increased urban struggles and challenging urban policies, urban planning practices s should develop a new way and discuss the radical urbanism. This article aims to represent critical assessment of the challenging/contradictory urban space policies, physical aspect of urban hegemony and call for radical urbanism forms. In especial, housing environment phenomena is focus of interest where significant inequalities take place and originate from, as daily life practices engrave there. How to plan justice is a deep problem and this study searches possible forms of constructing counter hegemony of urban space.
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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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