Construction of a system of meaning in-between modernity and (mass) housing: TOKİ

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2024-7-25

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BÖLÜKBAŞ BARAN, NİHAN

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This study examines how to analyze modernity through TOKİ’s different phases of modernity. Then, it observes what emerges in the relationship between modernism and (mass) housing. This research interest grounds itself through two primary problems. The first is the crisis in modernism and the crisis in-between modernism and architecture. The second, one of the main results of the first problem, is the confinement of the meaning and dimension of (mass) housing to the definitions related to commodification and financialization and the reduction of (mass) housing production to the practices of real estate agencies. Within this theoretical framework, this research re-visits the idea of modernity and re-reads the relationship between different phases of modernity and (mass) housing under an intermittent and overarching experience of modernity. Thus, it intends to grab instants of TOKİ’s experience of modernity in the context of Turkey. At the end of the process, it attempts to rewrite systems of thought in-between modernity and (mass) housing. In line with these targets, the main discussion is carried out on TOKİ, and it focuses on the following research areas: The meaning of TOKİ in Turkey’s experience of modernity TOKİ’s vision of modernity built on selected notions – development, urban planning, urbanization, democratization, and the social state The relationship established by these modernity visions with (mass) housing To that end, it targets the construction of a system of meaning in-between modernity and (mass) housing through provisional constructions. These constructions intend to explore TOKİ’s visions of modernity, and the journey of the meaning and dimensions of the concept of (mass) housing within these visions. They also investigate how commodification and financialization contribute to this process.

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Modernism, Modernity, Mass Housing, TOKİ

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110867

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis