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Yazarlar: Özlem GÜZEY

Konular:-

Anahtar Kelimeler:Urban regeneration,Neo-liberal policies,Ankara,TOKİ

Özet: Regeneration in Turkey is defined as an essential tool in the transformation of inner-city areas and especially the squatter housing areas, within the framework of neo-liberal policies in the way to reacquire the rent gap between the decreasing value of squatter houses and the increasing value of land in the cities’ most appealing locations and creating of high-income/status housing areas within a re-organized open market economy. Demand and supply are determined with neo-liberal policies and this becomes clear with the legitimization of regeneration and gentrification process with legal arrangements. New laws are centred on the unhealthy living conditions and the crime potential of squatter housing areas. Thus as unhealthy urban parts become the focus of urban restructuring, voluntary or involuntary dislocation aappears to be the hidden goal. Legitimization of regeneration with high level of society’s acceptionality, necessitates the state’s restructuring with legal arrangements and powerful state institutions and this new state identity is structured neo-liberal urban policies and powerful urban actors. The starting point of this study is evaluation of the hypothesis that urban regeneration and gentrification attempts are the tools of neo-liberal urban and housing policies, giving special emphasis to urban regeneration implementations in Ankara.

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