Penpecioğlu, Mehmet

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02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning
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8

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46

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European Planning Studies2
Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space1
From Student to Urban Planner: Young Practitioners' Reflections on Contemporary Ethical Challenges1
Journal of Planning1
Megaron1
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  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 21
    Citation - Scopus: 26
    Urban Crisis: ‘limits To Governance of Alienation’
    (SAGE Publications Inc., 2017) Bayırbağ, Mustafa Kemal; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    This article aims to develop a comparative framework of analysis to study urban crises, arguing that there is a need to establish the analytical links between ‘everyday life and systemic trends and struggles’, and thus to tie together the insights produced by ‘particularistic accounts’. It examines urban crises as political phenomena and brings the Marxist notion of ‘alienation’ to the centre of attention. We argue that ‘alienation’ – as a universal mechanism facilitating capital accumulation process via dispossession, and as negative mental/emotional implications of dispossession, is useful to establish those analytical links. We identify two domains, urban economic structure and urban political system, where alienation is contained. Public authorities deploy various containment strategies in these domains to govern alienation, and urban crises occur when these strategies fail. The post-2008 wave of urban upheavals could be explained by the failure of roll-out neoliberal strategies, which constitute the basis of our comparative framework.
  • Book Part
    Citation - Scopus: 4
    Confronted and Disappointed? Struggle of Turkish Planners Against Authoritarian State-Regulated Urban Development
    (Taylor & Francis, 2017) Taşan Kok, Tuna; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    This chapter highlights the confrontations and disappointments, turning the spotlight on those who continue to struggle against authoritarian state-regulated urban development. Lacking the instruments to fight authoritarian state-regulated neoliberalism, young planners are becoming disillusioned with their profession. The deepening effects of neoliberalisation have blurred the boundaries between public and private interests, prioritising the role of flexible, short-term, collaborative, and strategic approaches to planning, rather than comprehensive, long-term, and holistic visions. The findings of research provide sufficient data for an understanding and interpretation of the changing positions and roles, strategies and actions, behaviours and attitudes of planners in the face of authoritarian state-regulated neoliberal urban development in Turkey. Deniz Kimyon, 29 years old, is a graduate of the City and Regional Planning Department of Middle East Technical University. The results of the questionnaire also reveal that the views of planners on their profession change over the years.
  • Article
    Diverse Geographies of Urban Crisis: a Comparative Analysis of Egypt, India and Türkiye
    (Yildiz Technical Univ, Fac Architecture, 2024) Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Bayırbağ, Mustafa Kemal; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    The article concentrates on the reasons behind, and consequences of, the post-2008 urban crises experienced in the southern geographies of capitalism. It does so through a comparative analysis of three cases, namely India, Egypt, and Türkiye. The methodological approach in the article attempts to expand the scope of urban politics research to bring divergent cases into conversation. We argue that loosely defined, similar and different causes and/or repeated outcomes of urban crises across diverse cases could form an appropriate base for research in urban politics. The article brings the politics of redistribution in three cases/countries under the spotlight, focusing on four dimensions of the politics of redistribution: (dis)possession; exploitation; commons; and representation. While the last two dimensions dominated the scene in Egypt, in the case of Türkiye, it was about the politics of representation and exploitation. In India, the politics of (dis)possession and commons seem to constitute the center of urban politics. Furthermore, as the comparative analysis of the countries reveals, the role of the state and its historical and spatial configurations have played a strategic role in the formation of the politics of distribution. The comparative analysis also indicates that the variegated neoliberal urban policies have become successful or have failed in containing urban crises. The reasons for the success/failure in urban policies depend on three major factors: (1) the spatio-institutional design of the urban policy-making mechanisms; (2) the historical pattern of urbanization; (3) the role of the nation-state, especially the central government, in the politics of redistribution.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 18
    Citation - Scopus: 18
    Alienated and Politicized? Young Planners’ Confrontation With Entrepreneurial and Authoritarian State Intervention in Urban Development in Turkey
    (Routledge, 2016) Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Planning 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
    Exploring the Contemporary Dynamics of Extended Urbanisation: a Comprehensive Analysis on the Case of Denizli, Turkey
    (Kare Publ, 2025) Kolaoglu, Busra; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Penpecioglu, Mehmet; Ogur, Aysun Ayguen; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Contemporary discussions about extended urbanization and its inherent practices of suburbanization particularly focus on metropolitan cities in the Global South. There is inadequate empirical evidence on the rapidly developing Anatolian cities in Turkey. To address this gap, this article analyzes Denizli's extended urban development process, elaborates on the dominant practices, and examines the driving forces shaping its rapid, contested, and fragmented socio-spatial landscape. As one of the most ubiquitous cases among rapidly developing Anatolian cities, Denizli highlights the leading role of fragmented urban development planning interventions, the stimulating impact of transportation and infrastructure investments, and the pivotal role of private sector projects. The research consists of urban spatial analysis using statistical data and urban planning documents, detecting land use/cover changes over time, and identifying the driving factors that have influenced and shaped the patterns of urban development in Denizli. The findings indicate that fragmented urban development planning interventions have both triggered and sustained extended urban development in Merkezefendi, Denizli. Moreover, key public investments and real estate projects have fostered this extended urban development process, leading to disjointed fragments in a socioeconomically polarized geography. As a diversified and relational formation of extended urbanization, Denizli provides genuine research findings, and includes remarkable similarities as well as differences in the comparative analysis of global urbanism practices.
  • Other
    Corrigendum: Alienated and Politicized? Young Planners’ Confrontation With Entrepreneurial and Authoritarian State Intervention in Urban Development in Turkey
    (Routledge, 2016) Penpecioglu, Mehmet; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
  • Master Thesis
    Strategic Spatial Plans and Municipalization Policies in Cities: A Comparative Analysis of the Cases of Beyoğlu İstanbul and Çiğli İzmir
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2025) Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning
    Tezin amacı, İstanbul'un Beyoğlu ve İzmir'in Çiğli ilçelerinde hazırlanan stratejik mekânsal planlar temelinde, bu iki farklı kentsel bağlamdaki (yeniden)belediyeleştirme [(re)municipalization] politikalarının kapsamlı ve karşılaştırmalı bir analizini yapmaktır. Araştırma deseni, söz konusu planların içerik analizine dayanmakta ve bu sayede belirgin (yeniden)belediyeleştirme politikaları tespit edilmekte; bu politikalar ilçelerin coğrafi, ekonomik, sosyal ve kültürel özellikleriyle ilişkilendirilerek karşılaştırılmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel yöntemi bu stratejik planların eleştirel içerik analizidir. Bulgular, Türkiye'nin en büyük metropolünün tarihî merkezlerinden biri olan Beyoğlu ile Ege Bölgesi'nin hızla gelişen, parçalı ve çeper bir yerleşimi olan Çiğli'de, mekânsal stratejiler aracılığıyla (yeniden)belediyeleştirme politikalarının nasıl benzerlikler ve farklarla formüle edildiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Bu bulgular, kentsel politika üretim süreçleri ve proje geliştirme mekanizmaları açısından önemli bir tartışma zemini sunmaktadır. Bu nedenle, stratejik mekânsal planlarla (yeniden)belediyeleştirme politikaları arasındaki ilişkiselliğin tespiti önemlidir. Tez, bu ilişkiyi analiz edebilecek özgün bir çerçeve sunmakta; her iki ilçedeki (yeniden)belediyeleştirme politikalarını açıklamakta, stratejilerin nicel ve tematik analizini yapmakta ve bu stratejilerin yerel bağlamlara nasıl oturduğunu değerlendirmektedir. Çalışmanın ana bulgularına göre, Çiğli'deki stratejiler sanayi gelişimi ve eğitime odaklanırken, Beyoğlu'nda tarihî dokunun korunması ve kültürel mirasın canlandırılması ön plandadır.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 9
    Politics of Waiting for Transformation in Protracted Urban Renewal Projects in Turkey
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Ay, Deniz; Penpecioğlu, Mehmet; 02.03. Department of City and Regional Planning; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    This paper explores the politics of 'waiting' as a mode of governance in large-scale urban redevelopment projects. In designated renewal areas, residents/landowners are often subject to several episodes of waiting: waiting for the public authority for information on redevelopment visions; waiting for the plans and projects to become public; waiting for the court ruling if they appeal the plans; waiting for demolition upon plan approvals; and, finally, waiting for the constructions to be completed. Given the complexity of actors and institutions involved in the waiting, it becomes a conflictual political process. This prolonged waiting leads to an ongoing temporariness and precarious spaces of urban renewal. The course of waiting affects the reorganization of the city space now and in the future. We analyze two protracted urban renewal projects from Turkey, Fikirtepe in Istanbul and Karabaglar in Izmir, to explore how residents' decade-long waiting for urban change are shaped and how these diverse waiting experiences lead to different outcomes for the progression of the state-imposed urban renewal agendas. While Karabaglar residents have unified around active bottom-up resistance from the beginning to challenge the project-based plans the central government imposed, Fikirtepe residents pursued individual-level negotiations with developers to maximize private returns following the zoning incentives the public authority gave. Despite the socio-spatial similarities between these designated urban renewal project sites, variances in residents' collective waiting strategies have led to different urban politics around project-based urban change.