Gated communities as a new upper-middle class "utopia" in Turkey : the case of Angora Houses

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Ertuna, Ayberk Can

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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the effects of gated communities in the increasing fragmentation of urban space and in the increasing polarisation among different classes in the Turkish context, more specifically in the capital, Ankara. Since the case study is based on an upper-middle class suburban gated community, first, suburbanisation أas a wave of urbanisationؤ is analysed. Then, the debates about the middle class and the transformation that this social stratum has undergone are discussed. Later, the formation of gated communities around the world and in Turkey are analysed within the general framework of the transformation of the urban sphere. Finally, the theoretical arguments are scrutinised by incorporating the findings of the case study carried out in Angora Houses. In this study Angora Houses is concluded to be a gated community which is أfortifiedؤ for the preservation of an upper-middle class lifestyle rather than for security concerns and which reproduces socio-spatial inequalities among Ankaraites rather than standing as only the expression of them

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Urbanization

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13748

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A. C. Ertuna, “ Gated communities as a new upper-middle class “utopia” in Turkey : the case of Angora Houses,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.