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Master Thesis Deindustrialisation and Neoliberal Urbanisation: the Rear Port of Izmir, Alsancak(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Esen, Gizem; Avar, Adile; Avar, AdileThis study draws on an inquiry into the transformation of an abandoned old industrial site in the rear port of İzmir Alsancak, Turkey. This area is a critical example regarding that it has been undergoing neoliberal urbanisation consisting of deindustrialisation, urban entrepreneurialism and gentrification. The deindustrialisation practices and the rising of neoliberal policies, the rear port of İzmir Alsancak have gained an exceptionally increased value and potential for urban entrepreneurial practices. This area has been undergoing a radical transformation by the way of incremental speculative redevelopment projects. Huge complexes of luxury housing, commerce and tourism have been rising on the large and single owned parcels. Planning is included in this process as a tool by the central government and local government at different scales of development plans. Frequently changing regulations and transferring rights through privatization programs on behalf of speculative projects of private entrepreneurs have to lead to redevelopment and gentrification of old industrial sites. Firstly, the relationship between urban space and capitalism as a mode of production is going to be mentioned. Secondly, the changes in the regime of capital accumulation and the rising of neoliberalism are going to be summarized. Moreover, the relationship between neoliberalism and urban entrepreneurialism, speculative urbanisation and gentrification will be stated. Thirdly, Turkey’s neoliberal urbanisation and deindustrialisation process will be examined. Finally, in light of all these concepts, the transformation process of the rear port of İzmir Alsancak is examined and criticized.Book Part Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 4Spatial Transformations in Istanbul Cbd: the Role of Ict?(Information Science Reference, 2008) Geçer Sargın, Feral; Avar, Adile; Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Saygın, Mustafa ÖmürNow with the intensive use of information and communication technologies, many cities around the world are competing to become a global city. Istanbul is enumerated within the first 50 cities in the globalization process, other than the triad of New York, London, and Tokyo. This chapter explores urban space transformation of Maslak, the contemporary central business district of Istanbul, with respect to information and communication technologies, by using deconcentration and economic restructuring approaches of urban theory. Compared to other global cities, Istanbul has distinctive characteristics, since it has been passing through a unique transformation process. More specifically, its economic, political, and social characteristics distinguish Istanbul from other cities within the same category (Gamma) of world cities. This study has revealed that transformations in Istanbul were not primarily driven by information and communication technologies. In contrast information and communication technology's role in the transformation of the Istanbul central business district is only a contributing factor.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 7Contextualising the Housing Problem of the Roma Community in Relation To Counterurbanisation in Urla, İzmir(Elsevier, 2024) Arslan Avar, Adile; Doğan, Fehmi; Özcan Cive, Yağmur; Akış, TonguçThis paper examines how the housing problem of the Roma people, living already under severe socio-spatial circumstances, has been exacerbated by counterurbanisation over recent decades in the resort town of Urla, İzmir. Based on empirical socio-spatial research adopting methodological pluralism integrating qualitative and quantitative research techniques, the study uses in-depth interviews and secondary data (e.g., real-estate web data, official statistics, and local media) as well as spatial analysis of satellite images. We limited our study to the proximity of the town center of Urla, considering the Roma community's ‘right to the city’, ensuring their right not to be exiled to the spaces of discrimination, and not to be exempted from their right to appear and co-exist in the town center. As Urla became a prominent and attractive destination of counterurbanisation in Turkey, its growth was intensified by high-end housing production. Coming to 2000s, its urban-rural texture remained, at least physically, ‘rural’, but it had undergone significant transformation. And while this recent higher-end development accompanied by counterurbanisation is sanctioned by local authorities, the public and property owners, it leaves no room for the Roma people to find decent housing. An inquiry on the housing problem of the Roma people in Urla in relation to counterurbanisation and accompanying housing production contributes to understanding the dialectics between deregulated housing market, commodification and uneven distribution of treasury lands, neoliberal regulations, and fragmented development plans implemented in highly “path-dependent” ways. © 2023 Elsevier LtdDoctoral Thesis Information Technologies and Urban Sapce Acase Study on Maslak, İstanbul(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2007) Geçer, Feral; Avar, AdileThe subject of the thesis is to examine the urban transformations that have taken place recently in Istanbul due to the dominant use of information technologies (IT)under the globalization process. Technological developments especially in the Information Technology (IT) and the telecommunications sector, influence cities and urban spaces in social, cultural and physical terms. The study focuses on the impact of IT on urban space transformations and processes in Maslak which has emerged as the new central business district for highly intensive IT user firms via a chronologically based data series.Recently Istanbul is a subject to a new kind of transformation in social,economical and physical structures. There is a new economical system enlarging upon the whole world. The globalized cities, as the capitals of this new economy, form new hinterlands which may not be geographically connected instead, associated via virtual linkages of fiberoptics and satellites of information systems and technologies. As a city strongly influenced by the globalization process which is undeniably armed by IT, Istanbul sticks out in Turkey in the world cities inventory.The problem of the thesis is constituted along the debates between two urban form theories: deconcentration theory and economic restructuring theory. This research examines two fundamental questions. First, which functions that used to be in the city are dispersed from the center and why? Second, which functions prefer urban space and tend to be together creating new kinds of agglomerations in some new places such as Maslak? Indeed, through the findings of the study, it is evidently observed with the presented data that, in the transformation process of Istanbul CBD, there are various factors accompanying the alterations in the urban space other than IT. IT is added to this process as a sidelong factor.Article İzmir Narlıdere'de kentsel dönüşüm projesinin uygulanmasında gecekondu maliklerinin karşılaşabileceği sorunlar(İdeal Kent Yayınları, 2021) Uysal, Ayça; Arslan Avar, AdileBased on the Critical Urban Theory, the study addresses the housing problem of the poor against neoliberal housing production in İzmir. The problem of research is the dispossession of the poor with the rent gap pressure created by neoliberal housing production. The situation of the poor living in the squatter area of the Narlıdere, İkinci İnönü Neighborhood against the neoliberal housing production is examined. The study is methodologically pluralistic and it is based on institutional, spatial, and digital data, quantitative and qualitative field study. The squatter area is surrounded by luxury housing development and was declared as an area under disaster risk according to law number 6306. The transformation project which directly affects the squatter housing residents has been planning. The transformation project is market-based and focuses on spatial transformation. The research findings and Housing Affordability Index calculations which take the housing prices and household income into account show that the urban renewal process will result in slum clearance and residents of the squatters may encounter social, economic, and spatial problems.Master Thesis Nature's Neoliberalisation and Re-Regulation Processes: the Case of Hepps in Tunceli, Turkey(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Gümüş Kurt, Miray; Avar, AdileSpatial sprawling of the capital especially in the post-2002 process in Turkey increased with transportation, extraction and energy investments, by the regulatory role of state. Especially for energy investments as the one of enterprise of capital that progressed by neoliberal policies, the state intervention which is one of the state’s roles that is capital-oriented in Turkey is re-regulation processes. In the historical background of HEPPs in Turkey; Munzur Valley, it is one of the place where the capital performs itself on the nature. Munzur Valley is the nature (the nature that self-sanctity of the local people with the historical value) that spatial fix of capital by HEPPs, and it is the place where capital will realize itself. In this process which the state has undertaken a regulatory role in the areas where capital performs its activities by controlling the environmental reactions and resolving the capital-local conflict. In such capital investment processes, the state is behalf of capital to create and expand investment areas as a policy and law-maker. In order to guarantee its own continuity, the state has taken on the task of intervening by making legal regulations in case of conflicts between investors and local people, while the capital is in the stage of having a form. The ecological fixes that Noel Castree mentions, was observed in the case of Munzur Valley National Park which the sacredness and historical value of the local people in this study area.Master Thesis Uneven Development and Declining Inner City Residential Areas: the Case of Izmir-Tuzcu District(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2005) İnce Kompil, Esin; Avar, Adile; Avar, AdileIzmir, being the third largest city of Turkey has experienced rapid urbanization after 1950s and especially after 1980s. Similar to the other metropolitan cities of Turkey, İzmir presents a dual structure including the growing and declining parts of the city. Within the conceptual framework of uneven development, the thesis examines the decline process of inner residential areas of İzmir in the case of Tuzcu District (a central district) by presenting current structure of the district and comparing with the past. The theory of uneven development is one of the foremost approaches to explain the recent changes and the transformations occurring in cities within the Marxist paradigm. Capital accumulation processes and class relations have an essential role in the process of uneven development of cities. The city or built environment itself is commodified by the capital since the capital moves through the built environment itself in search of returns across an uneven and changing ground-rent surface. In the capitalist system, the main purpose of the capitalists is to gain profit by investing property in the city, where it provides the maximum returns. So with the effects of movement of capital within the built environment, some parts of the city develop while the other parts decline. This unevenness is very common for all capitalist cities in the developed countries. As a part of the dual structure of cities, the phenomenon of urban decline is discussed widely in developed countries. On the other hand, the phenomenon of urban decline is relatively new for Turkey as well as in other developing countries compared to the developed countries. In Turkey, the process of urbanization of capital had begun particularly at 1980s and this continuing period has more striking patterns of uneven development in urban areas on account of the increasing hegemony of capital on urbanization process. It is certain that the capital had inevitably been one of the main diagnostic elements of initial urbanization process in Turkey. In this framework, the phenomenon of inner city residential decline is examined using the concept of deprivation as a methodological tool. The deprivation level of Tuzcu District is measured in terms of both material and social aspects. Finally, general features of Tuzcu District as a declining area have presented comparing with the developed countries in terms of poverty, unemployment, segregation, decline of physical environment, disinvestments and economic decline, decline of public education, and health.Doctoral Thesis Appropriation of forests and water resources in mount ida and surroundings: Dealing with socio-environmental problems by integrating biodiversity impact chain analysis into planning(2024) Cive, Yağmur Özcan; Avar, AdileBu tez, mevcut koruma eleştirileri ile kent ve planlama kuramındaki eleştirel tartışmalara dayanarak koruma ve planlama arasındaki bağlantıyı yeniden kurulmasının olanaklarını tartışmaktadır. Ayrıca Kaz Dağları örneği üzerinden planlamada yeni bir çevre koruma anlayışı geliştirmenin Türkiye için imkanlarını araştırmaktadır. Ekosistem hizmetlerinin değerlendirilmesi gibi piyasa temelli koruma anlayışları, geleneksel korumanın kapsamını genişletse de, bu yaklaşımlar yeni belirlenen bölgelerde 'yeşil gasp' uygulamalarına yol açması ve bu alanların dışında doğanın sınırsız bir şekilde sömürülmesini teşvik etmesi ile eleştirilmektedir. Bir yanda da sosyo-çevresel krizlerin ve yeni eşitsizlilerin üstesinden gelmeyi amaçlayan küçülme stratejilerinin mekansallaşması ve planlamayı ekonomik büyümeye odağından uzaklaştırarak büyüme sonrası bir planlama pratiğine geçişin gerekliliği tartışılmaktadır. Türkiye'de ise ekonomik büyümenin önceliklendirilmesi ve karar alma süreçlerinin merkezileştirilmesi nedeniyle, koruma bölgeleri içerisinde dahi yıkıcı faaliyetler ve 'daha yeşil' faaliyetler eş zamanlı olarak yürütülmektedir. Kaz Dağı Milli Parkı ve güney yamacı kısmen korunurken, çeperdeki ormanlarda yeni madencilik faaliyetleri ve kıyı şeridinde jeotermal enerji kaynaklı faaliyeler, ihracata yönelik politikalar nedeniyle ormanların ve su kaynaklarının çevre kirliliğine ve eşitsizliklere yol açacak şekilde tahsisi ile devam etmektedir. Kaz Dağları ormanları için yeni bir ekosistem hizmetleri projesi söz konusu olsa bile, yasal yetersizliklerin yanı sıra izole koruma kararları, ekonomik büyüme odaklı hedefler ve politikalar nedeniyle farklı ölçeklerde yeni eşitsizlikler ortaya çıkabilir. Bu doğrultuda tez, eşitsizlikleri ortaya çıkarmak, büyüme sonrası alternatifleri önermek ve politikleştirmek için bir araç olarak 'biyoçeşitlilik etki zinciri' analizi ile alan için 'koruma ölçekleri' önermektedir.Doctoral Thesis Public City, Private Interest: Facing the Conflict of Power and Ownership in the Field of Planning Practices in Izmir(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2014) Erkan, Gökhan Hüseyin; Avar, AdileThis thesis investigates exertion of power in planning processes with special attention to private ownership of urban land and conflict resulting from its negative impacts on urban commons. Research questions and confronts procedural claims of communicative planning ideology by focusing on actual planning practices. Communicative planning ideology is criticized for its universal, idealist and context free prescriptions. Research argues that actions in planning process involve both formal and conventional communicative mechanisms as well as informal, insidious and dubious practices. When private interests based on real estate ownership are concerned actors, their motives, and actions change significantly. Case study focuses on the case of a vacant urban land in the Central Business District of city of İzmir which was once a public property. What makes this land plot unique and interesting to study is that although several plan modifications, two protocols, and two competitions were put into implementation to transform the area into a commercial setting, all these attempts have ended in a spectacular failure. The main narrative of this thesis tells about this process and its failure by focusing on the planning processes. While doing this thesis also provides a criticism of planning theories. It is found that rather than theoretically prescribed forms of communication, strategic and tactical mechanisms of power relations dominate planning processes. It is believed that powerful groups realize their ends by trying all sorts of wiles. This research also aims at identifying these wiles. Findings revealed that there are other actions so influential on both substantive and procedural dimensions of city planning, but they are not acknowledged or simply downplayed by theory. Without a coherent understanding of actual planning practices, establishing and maintaining an effective planning system will have certain drawbacks. This research aims at contributing to efforts for improving spatial planning system in Turkey which is being distorted by rapid privatization and normalized plan modifications by exploring actual planning practices.Doctoral Thesis Regional Uneven Development and Liberalisation in Turkey(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Özbolat, Nida Kamil; Avar, AdileLiberal economic programmes have been systematically implemented in Turkey since the early 1980s. These programmes aimed to launch a transformation, from import substitution under state direction to export oriented open-market conditions. Following this transformation, economic, political, institutional and spatial structures have drastically changed. Moreover, this process resulted highly uneven in terms of income distribution, both socially and geographically. The objective of this thesis is to analyse the relationships between regional uneven development and liberalisation in the case of Turkey; by doing this, it also contributes to the debates on liberalism through the revision of mainstream approaches by, per contra, drawing on the principles of critical approaches in a comprehensive way owing to the understanding provided by the concepts of 'actually existing neoliberalism', and 'spatiotemporal fixes'. To this end, beside descriptive statistics and well-known inequality indices, empirical analyses including nonspatial and spatial convergence models are applied at the level of NUTS 2. In addition, these analyses are completed through the distribution dynamics approach, which offers insights on the cross-sectional distribution of income. The analyses, on the one hand, report an overall slow convergence between regions; on the other hand, a polarisation issue in the regional pattern is identified in terms of notable gaps between three income levels. Findings indicate that liberal policies have not offered a permanent solution for the issue of uneven development. Therefore, closing regional disparities should be a serious policy concern and economic strategies should be better aligned with spatial/regional policies to address uneven development.