Detransformation and Waiting: Institutional Bottlenecks and Precarious Spaces of State-led Urban Renewal

Ay, Deniz; PENPECİOGLU, Mehmet (2022). Detransformation and Waiting: Institutional Bottlenecks and Precarious Spaces of State-led Urban Renewal. İDEALKENT, 13(35), pp. 6-39. Adamor 10.31198/idealkent.975344

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State-led urban renewal has been a “modus operandi” for transforming city parts to serve various objectives, including the reproduction of the built environment, maximizing returns to real estate, or changing the socioeconomic profiles of neighborhoods. However, large-scale urban renewal agendas do not necessarily unfold as projected. This paper introduces the term ‘detransformation’ to define the socio-political nature of this multifaceted and complex process of urban change that diverges from the intended outcome and intensifies the politics of waiting. By conducting a comparative analysis of three extreme cases of urban renewal operations from three major metropolitan cities in Turkey (Fikirtepe-Kadikoy in Istanbul, Karabaglar in Izmir, and Akdere-Mamak in Ankara), we explore the inherent institutional, political, and administrative mechanisms that impede the intended redevelopment outcomes. We identify the socioeconomic and legal dynamics that lead to the institutional bottlenecks in redevelopment planning and conclude that the reckless urban renewal implementation generates exceptions to the order of formal urbanization that is mainly shaped around the politics of waiting.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography > Unit Political urbanism and sutainable spatial development
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Human Geography
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography
11 Centers of Competence > Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED)

UniBE Contributor:

Ay, Deniz

Subjects:

900 History > 910 Geography & travel

ISSN:

1307-9905

Publisher:

Adamor

Language:

Turkish

Submitter:

Louis Karl Zwyssig

Date Deposited:

18 Aug 2022 15:44

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:22

Publisher DOI:

10.31198/idealkent.975344

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Urban renewal, politics of waiting, detransformation, institutional bottlenecks, Turkey’s urbanization

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/172023

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/172023

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