Sociospatial impacts of deindustrialization : the case of Karabük

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2003
Çevik, Murat
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the socio-spatial impacts of the restructuring of a locality, Karabük, which was shaped under a different development strategy, namely, import substitution industrialization strategy. Karabük case shows that establishment of Karabük Iron and Steal Factories was decided on the basis of political and social priorities of a period when there was limited competitive environment and such priorities have lost their primacy under the export oriented growth strategy in a highly competitive international environment. The recent experience shows that Karabük fails to cope with this reality and the industrial base of the locality ever increasingly fails to support the economy of the city. The thesis is also an attempt to show the socio-spatial repercussions of this failure on the locality. It will be shown that, closing down the Factories would have important negative impacts upon the whole city, rather moderate policies have been followed by various governments during the recent decades by partly placing the burden on the workers themselves. In the long term, however, survival of the factory seems to be difficult, if not impossible. Therefore, the future for the city itself looks quite bleak.

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M. Çevik, “ Sociospatial impacts of deindustrialization : the case of Karabük ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.