Abstract
The focus of this paper is the redevelopment of the squatter settlements in Ankara Turkey. Most of the articles focus on gentrification and changing neighbourhood social structures but the redevelopment of the squatter settlements also aims the production of formal low-income housing as well as the integration of previous non-formal housing into formal urban space. Therefore, this article suggests that the contemporary redevelopment project of squatters in Ankara, Turkey is a part of a broader strategy of integrating low-income into the formal housing system by cooperating with a part of low-income groups. The research was made in Altındağ, Ankara by using a deep semi-structured interview, and document analyses method. The researcher conducted 25 interviews with residents and 2 interviews with officials.
Highlights
InformationIn Turkish, the word “gecekondu” literally means ‘built overnight’ but the term has different meanings in different disciplines (Akbulut and Başlik, 2011)
In 2005, around 30% of the urban population of the big cities of Turkey were still living in squatter settlements (Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, 2005)
In terms of total floor area, the production of housing increased from 45 million m2 in 2003 to 205 million m2 in 2016 (TUIK, 2016)
Summary
In Turkish, the word “gecekondu” literally means ‘built overnight’ but the term has different meanings in different disciplines (Akbulut and Başlik, 2011). Re-scaling of state intervention to the Built Environment The rescaling state debate is an academic by-product of the interest in globalisation and the changes it brought, yet the literature about rescaling continues to grow and provides important theoretical background for current work on urban and regional politics, especially in relation to the local development (Cox, 2009). Strategic Relational approach Brenner (2004) sets out a theoretical framework for understanding scales of the state based on the strategic relational approach to the state On this basis, he analyses the rescaling from national to sub-national levels in Western Europe in the period since the 1970s. Brenner suggests that the city region became, ‘the key institutional site in which a major rescaling of national state power has been unfolding’ (Brenner 2004, p.3). Cox emphasises the importance of competition between regions and between localities, arguing that this is reflected in regional secessionist movements in Europe
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