Functional decline in the case of Salıpazarı, Istanbul

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Eslami Taheri, Aslan
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Urban decline is one of the most important factors dealing with the creation of urban ills and formation of slums in the city centers. This study investigates the roots of urban decline in urban areas. In order to do so, symptoms, types, causes and participant factors dealing with the process of urban decline are investigated. Also functional decline, as one of the most important triggers of urban decline, is introduced and its force that results in low quality of urban places is explored. The scale of participant factors in the process of functional decline is various. These factors are observed from changes in the global political trends and economy till the regulation changes in local scale. Moreover the ways of talking with urban and functional decline, that is classified into four major category of political considerations, economic financing, planning policy and enhancing the quality of places are explored. Finally the forces of urban and functional decline that have lead to low quality of place in the case of Salipazari, Istanbul are examined. As the scale of study area is in the neighborhood scale, the most important concern will be on the low quality of place in exploring decline in this area.
Historic districts, Urban cores, Inner cities, Neighborhoods, City and town life, Sociology, Urban
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22467
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Eslami Taheri, “Functional decline in the case of Salıpazarı, Istanbul,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.
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