Assembling gentrification in Istanbul: The Cihangir neighbourhood of Beyolu

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2018-11-01

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Yetişkul Şenbil, Emine

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This paper aims to contribute to the gentrification literature through the potentials of assemblage thinking. We focus on gentrification in Istanbul, which represents the characteristics of both the Global South and North, and use assemblages to link together gentrification and the temporal scales of Istanbul's urbanisation as well as geographical scales of gentrification around the world. Approaching gentrification as a continual process of transformation and emergence, we intend to illuminate how assemblages of gentrification in a historical inner-city neighbourhood, Cihangir, can be produced and reproduced in the trajectory of this neighbourhood. In so doing, we reveal and explore the role of the state in seemingly market-led gentrification and draw attention to the generative potentiality in the local resistance to the recent state-led gentrification of Cihangir.

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Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Urban Studies

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49112

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URBAN STUDIES

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https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017746623

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Department of City and Regional Planning, Article

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E. Yetişkul Şenbil, “Assembling gentrification in Istanbul: The Cihangir neighbourhood of Beyolu,” URBAN STUDIES, pp. 3336–3352, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49112.