City and Regional Planning / Şehir ve Bölge Planlama
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Other Corrigendum: Alienated and Politicized? Young Planners’ Confrontation With Entrepreneurial and Authoritarian State Intervention in Urban Development in Turkey(Routledge, 2016) Penpecioglu, Mehmet; Taşan Kok, TunaArticle Citation - WoS: 18Citation - Scopus: 18Alienated and Politicized? Young Planners’ Confrontation With Entrepreneurial and Authoritarian State Intervention in Urban Development in Turkey(Routledge, 2016) Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Taşan Kok, TunaPlanning in Turkey is dominated by powerful market interests and authoritarian state regulation, resulting in a conflictual socio-political environment. Caught in the crossfire between interventionist urban policies and a planning education system that is oriented towards the public good, planners have come to feel alienated from their work. This paper considers how young planners respond to these challenges, drawing upon questionnaires and semi-structured in-depth interviews with planners with fewer than 10 years of experience. Their confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state interventions in urban development alienates them from their ideals, leading them to explore new ways of dealing with increasing political authority and economic neoliberalism. The participants of the study came up with a number of diverse responses related to this process. Disappointed with the practice of their profession ‘lost planners' begin searching for alternative pathways outside their practice towards a more meaningful society. In contrast, ‘profiteer planners' focus on getting more business and play a conformist and opportunistic role in the existing planning practice; while ‘struggling planners' develop alternative ways to pursue the public good by participating in urban movements. In short, they cope with alienation through politicization, solidarity and the identification of new means of engaging with society.Article Citation - Scopus: 217Rising Knowledge Cities: the Role of Urban Knowledge Precincts(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2008) Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Martinez-Fernandez, CristinaPurpose - The paper seeks to investigate the changing and challenging spatial nature of the rising knowledge cities' knowledge precincts. Design/methodology/approach - The paper reviews the literature on recent knowledge precinct developments within the frame of innovation and urban economic competitiveness. The methodology develops a typological investigation and searches for useful insights for better understanding the fundamentals of knowledge precincts. The study exemplifies cases from Australia as well as other global best practices. Findings - The paper sheds light on the contemporary knowledge production of rising knowledge cities, and points out the changing spatial agglomeration of knowledge-intensive industries and the formation of new types of knowledge precincts as the spatial core of knowledge-based urban development. Originality/value - The paper provides an in-depth discussion on the changing spatial concepts of knowledge precincts and their vital role for the knowledge-based urban development of cities.