Abstract
This article examines the demolition-oriented restructuring relationship during urban development processes in the case study of the central business district in Kayseri (Turkey) by systematically analysing externally-conditioned events and trajectories. This transformation, characterised by changing periods of development and the analysis of the actors who are particularly active in the process, is explored through the socio-spatial developments in Kayseri. In this study, this has been expounded through the concept of path dependence, which states that current conditions are more dependent on past events and those past events lead to today's results. The decisions on the historically contingent periods and three critical junctures identified in the study were found to have been maintained until the next stage and strengthened by following the path-dependent tendency.
Highlights
The city centre bears the characteristics of the city, the transformations it has gone through, and traces of its history
The history examined in this study shows that there is a strong political reason for the local government to change policies sharply at critical junctures and that tendencies oriented towards path dependence are reinforced despite the change in the regime after such policies
The study undoubtedly requires a comprehensive analysis of large-scale urban development with a large number of components, so path dependency has been used as a more sophisticated way to draw links between historical events and development trajectories, with critical junctures included as the most important processes (Table 2)
Summary
The city centre bears the characteristics of the city, the transformations it has gone through, and traces of its history. Small-scale production and trade were concentrated in city centres before industrialisation, and during periods when urbanisation was slow. In industrial societies, these areas are referred to as the brain of the city because the decision-making, supervision and coordination functions are concentrated here. These areas are referred to as the brain of the city because the decision-making, supervision and coordination functions are concentrated here In this respect, the city centre concept has to comply with the models such as the commercial centre of the city, the business centre of the city, and the cultural centre of the city (Hollenstein and Purves, 2010; Thurstain-Goodwin and Unwin, 2000)
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