The pattern and process of urban social exclusion in İstanbul

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Çelik, Özlem
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The main aim of the thesis is to analyse the recent socio-spatial patterns of Istanbul, in which squatter areas on publicly-owned land (gecekondu) and old historical centre of the city are subjected to regeneration projects, under the impact of making Istanbul a “purified” place for the significant social classes via exclusion of the “others”. The formulations of Henri Lefebvre for analysing the production of (social) space are used as the conceptual framework of the thesis. To reveal the case study, the recent urban regeneration projects in Istanbul, a wide range of qualitative data collection techniques and methodology, documentary analysis, in-depth interviews, participant observations, which will pave a way to understand the complex relations among social and spatial formations, are used. According to the analysis on the acceleration of urban regeneration projects in the city of Istanbul, the thesis argues two main points: Firstly, the specificity of urbanisation period in Istanbul after 2000 is characterised with the strong role of the central state, mainly MHA. Secondly, the people, who are living in the gecekondu areas and old historical centres in the inner city are not only evicted from their living spaces, they are also socially and spatially excluded from the city centres.
Sociology., Urban space.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610089/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17999
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. Çelik, “The pattern and process of urban social exclusion in İstanbul,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.
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