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Critical Spatial Standpoint on Neoliberal Urban Restructuring: a Case Study on Urban Restructuring Processes in Narlıdere, İzmir
(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023) Kılıçkaya, Ulaş Şansal; Arslan Avar, Adile
The thesis proposes a critical spatial approach to reveal the political, economic, and social dimensions of the urban development plans and projects (UDPs) in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring in Turkey. . It aims to enrich the theoretical and methodological foundations of critical urban studies and spatial planning, focusing on UDPs as a key neoliberal urban strategy. Despite extensive research on cities and their spaces, there is still a lack of critical understanding of the 'urban process', and of the actors and networks underlying these processes. The study tries to fill this gap by providing a critique of capitalism and its inherent uneven development, neoliberal political and economic restructuring, and neoliberal urban policy from a political economic perspective. The thesis concentrates on the neoliberal plans and projects produced by the state and capital as mechanisms to overcome capitalist crises. The thesis problem is to contribute to a critical urban theory that can explain and transform the socio-spatial processes in urban spaces, especially in light of the global expansion of 21st-century capitalism. The methodology used in the thesis is methodological pluralism, using various qualitative and quantitative research techniques to critically analyze the socio spatial processes of neoliberal urban restructuring.. It argues that UDPs are driven by the logic of profit and land rent, and that they exclude the participation and the rights of the poor and marginalized inhabitants. It seeks to critically elaborate on issues such as gentrification, dispossession, displacement, segregation, and polarization in the spaces of UDPs, instrumentalized as a mechanism of neoliberal urban restructuring processes in Narlıdere
Interstitial as a Mode of Production of Space in Socially and Politically Engaged Spatial Practices
(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Doğu, Tuba; Akış, Tonguç; Savaşır, Gökçeçiçek
This dissertation examines socially and politically engaged contemporary spatial practices emerging from the interstices of capitalistic modes of production. Contrary to the prevailing architectural discourse that expounds the subject from architects' vantage point or the discipline's structure, my argument calls for a need of a critical reflection by focusing on the ways in which the ruptures of capitalism impel these tendencies. The main goal is to provide a comprehensive perspective on the causalities, processes and repercussions that contributes to a better understanding of these practices. Drawing concurrently on theory and practice – critical theory and a mapping of twenty worldwide notable spatial practices – the study offers an analytical lens that examines spatial practices through three essential constituents: space, action and position. This tripartite concern builds a novel and original methodological framework which argues interstitial to emerge as a mode of production of space. Making connections across these constituents enables to register causal and processual determinants of spatial production and helps to assess what repercussions the studied groups bear to contemporary crises of capitalism. Employing the proposed framework, the study scrutinizes these repercussions closely by exploring the spatial practices of three collectives: Architecture for All, Düzce Hope Studio, and 596 Acres. Conflating theory and practice helps to critically assess the interstitial production of space, while situating it beyond a romanticized category within the discipline of architecture and giving it a social and political content from a transdisciplinary perspective.

Phd Degree / Doktora

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