İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Fahriye YAVAŞOĞLU, Can Giray ÖZGÜL

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.31198/idealkent.680959

Anahtar Kelimeler:Urban transformation,Industrial heritage,Cultural heritage,Malatya sugar factory

Özet: Economic restructuring transforms urban space in line with the logic and needs of capital. Also it plays a central role in determining urban policy. Therefore, urban transformation practices transform urban space into an investment area for capital after 1980’s. It is possible to say that the form, function and perception of urban spaces are reproduced and life style is transformed with the transformation practices towards capital accumulation. In this context, industrial areas which can be considered as industrial heritage and cultural heritage are also transformed by keeping exchange value in the foreground for various reasons regardless of historical, social and cultural value. In other words, the construction and finance sectors, which replace production, have turned to publicly owned industrial areas, claiming that they have lost their function or are idle areas. Neoliberal implementations such as privatization and de-industrialization in connection with economical and structural transformation, have revi-sed the Sugar regime in Turkey. Within the scope of the legislative amendments (1996) re-garding the reorganization of the sugar regime, sugar factories settlements and their real estate property were included in the scope of privatization (2000); and ownership and physi-cal structure of the Sugar Factory Settlements were transformed. This study examines the historical transformation process of the Malatya Sugar Factory Settlement as one of the in-dustrial settlements established by the state in Anatolia. It also discusses the opening of the campus to different economic sectors as a result of interventions rather than protection as an industrial heritage.

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