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Yazarlar: Tahire ERMAN

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Anatolian tiger’ cities,Local entrepreneurship,Spaces of global consumption,Local dynamics,TOKI gece-kondu transformation projects,Urban poverty

Özet: This article aims to understand the spatial transformations in Anatolia cities produced under the effects of the liberalization of economy and the local’s gaining importance in decentralization by using six ‘Anatolian tiger’ cities, namely, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Denizli, Çorum, Malatya and Konya. To what extent have the shopping malls as the consumption face of the global economy and gated communities as the new prestige sites reached these cities? Is the recent accumulation of capital in these cities pulling the better-off classes into global cultural consumption patterns and spaces? What is local in it? As these cities receive migration due to the new employment opportunities, what is the approach of authorities to the poverty and its spaces in the cities? To what extent are the neoliberal practices of local governments to create their own resources and, in their competition with other cities, to make their cities a ‘brand city,’ true for the ‘Anatolian tiger’ cities? To what extent and in what ways has the construction sector, in the leadership of the state’s entrepreneur Mass Housing Agency (TOKI), been transforming the ‘Anatolian tiger’ cities? What makes the transformation of Anatolian cities different from the metropolitan cities? The article discusses the recent transformations in the ‘Anatolian tiger’ cities in the context of these questions.

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