Diverging community responses to state-led urban renewal in the context of recentralization of planning authority: An analysis of three urban renewal projects in Turkey

《Diverging community responses to state-led urban renewal in the context of recentralization of planning authority: An analysis of three urban renewal projects in Turkey》

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关键字: Urban renewal;Neighborhood associations;Grassroots resistance;Recentralization;Decentralization;Turkey

作者单位: Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium;Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

摘要: This study explores how the division of governing power between central and local governments affects the local community's political responses to state-led urban renewal. The study is based on Turkey as an extreme case, where the central government commits to the renewal of one-thirds of the existing national housing stock in the course of twenty years. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the local community responses to the urban renewal projects in three neighborhoods that are located in different metropolitan areas; Adana, Bursa, and Izmir. The variation among the local community's political response to the top-down imposition of large-scale urban renewal projects is analyzed in the context of ostensibly arbitrary delegation of planning authority. This paper concludes that grassroots mobilization in the form of neighborhood associations has a complex relationship with the recentralization of planning authority. These sporadic bottom-up responses to government-led urban redevelopment provide an alternative “unplanned” participatory mechanism for the officially neglected urban denizens.