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Aylin Topal;Galip L. Yalman;Özlem Çelik

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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue5,P.630-653

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英文

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作者单位

Middle East Technical University

摘要

This study aims to critically analyze the transformation of the Turkish state’s role in urban redevelopment and housing finance by focusing on 3 mass housing projects from Ankara in 3 different historical political conjunctures. The analysis reveals that the Turkish state, with its peculiar institutional artifices, not only creates rent gaps in varying forms but also increasingly coordinates appropriation of them. This involved not only reformulation of strategies to cope with the social problem of continuing expansion of urban population by planning efforts of various scope but also incorporating low-income households into the dominant logic of urban space redevelopment.Additional informationAuthor informationAylin TopalAylin Topal is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University. She is also the chairperson of the Latin and North American Studies Program at the same university. Her main fields of research are political economy of development and agrarian change. She is the author of Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization: A Subnational Comparison of Local Development in Mexico (Ashgate Publishing, 2012). She has also published several articles and chapters in edited volumes on regional, urban, and rural development in Mexico and state–capital–labor relations under neoliberalism in Turkey.Galip L. YalmanGalip L. Yalman is an Associate Professor of Political Science (emeritus) in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University. His research interests extend from state theory to international and comparative political economy. He is the author of Transition to Neoliberalism: The Case of Turkey in the 1980s (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2009) and is co-editor of Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in Middle Income Countries (Routledge, 2010) and The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey (Routledge, forthcoming). He is currently the president of the Turkish Social Sciences Association.Özlem ÇelikÖzlem Çelik is a Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher funded by the Swedish Institute at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University. She received her BA from Mimar Sinan University, her MA from METU, and her PhD from the University of Sheffield. She undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at METU for 3 years. She also worked at METU and Yasar University, teaching courses on the politics of urban space, social movements, gender and politics, and qualitative research methods. Her research lies on an interdisciplinary terrain combining human geography, economics, and politics with a focus on financialization housing and social movements. She is coordinator of the Urban and Regional Political Economy Working Group at the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy.FundingThis article is based on research undertaken as part of the project Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD 2011-2016), which received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP-7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 266800.AcknowledgmentsWe thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and comments.