The effects of land policy on urban redevelopment: tracing changing property rights in Yenimahalle

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Redevelopment of urban areas means reorganization of property rights through land policies and policy tools. This study is built on the argument that the earliest property pattern established in an area by land policies has a significant effect on the initial urban form, future transformation, future urban form and property pattern in that area. The theoretical framework is built on the causal two-way relationship between land policies and property rights. Land policies reorganize property rights through various policy instruments. Also, the prevailing property rights influence the development and implementation of future land policies. This study examines this relationship in Continental Europe and Turkey's urbanization history and in the redevelopment history of Yenimahalle. Yenimahalle was established by public and private landowners, which created differing property patterns in terms of plot size and land use. In seventy-year time, these two areas have been transformed with the same plans and policies. The production of sequential maps for each planning period allows tracing changing property rights on vertical and horizontal dimensions and whether different property patterns result in different transformation processes. A strong two-way causal relationship between land policies and property rights is revealed. The earliest property pattern of an area influences policy implementation, and consequently, future urban form and property pattern. Producing livable urban spaces with successful transformation processes and the formation of planned property patterns requires that the most recent land policies and policy instruments be well-developed and well-implemented and that the earliest property pattern and land policies be well-developed as well.
Land policy, Property rights, Urban redevelopment
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/91561
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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B. Aycan, “The effects of land policy on urban redevelopment: tracing changing property rights in Yenimahalle,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2021.
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