A Divided Capital: Residential Segregation In Ankara

Ataç, Ela

doi:10.4305/metu.jfa.2016.1.10

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“…What is interesting with these regeneration areas is that they are either located either along the boundaries between residential areas for low-income groups and high-income groups or unqualified residential areas surrounded by high-income groups, which can be proven by the study in Ankara conducted by Ataç (2016). With these locational strategies, urban regeneration became a segregating process; increasing the heights of symbolic walls between different income groups and making them invisible to each other (see Image 2).…”

Section: Problems Of Urban Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regeneration or Degeneration? An Untold Story of Urban Change in Turkish Metropolitan Cities

Levent¹

2018

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In the year 1999, a high-intensity earthquake hit Turkey and caused massive damage and destruction. After this earthquake, the stakeholders of urban development realized the fact that the possibilities for such losses in Turkish cities are relatively high due to the low physical qualities of building stock. Depending on a broad consensus, urban regeneration appeared as the strongest option by replacing unqualified buildings with the qualified ones, which increased the numbers of both theoretical studies focusing on urban regeneration and urban regeneration projects. The dominance of urban regeneration on urban planning, however, does not mean that they are problem-free in Turkish case. There is a theoretical ambiguity about the definition, input-output, and processes of urban regeneration which causes certain problems related to the economic and social dimensions of cities. With reference to many cases, it can be easily said that the costs of these problems are more than the benefits of urban regeneration projects. In this respect, this study aims to concentrate on the problems of urban regeneration practices to understand whether urban regeneration projects create a kind of urban degeneration. In the first part, there are basic theoretical discussions about urban regeneration. The second part is about a historical description of urban regeneration in the Turkish context by focusing especially on the methods and priorities in different periods since they are important by understanding the ongoing processes of urban regeneration. The third part concentrates on the problems of urban regeneration with reference to its underestimated economic and social dimensions. The conclusion of the study aims to discuss the potential qualities of urban regeneration in Turkish context and to determine possible modifications in the processes, priorities, and principles of existing urban regeneration practices so that the possibility of urban degeneration could decrease.

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Section: Problems Of Urban Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Regeneration or Degeneration? An Untold Story of Urban Change in Turkish Metropolitan Cities

Levent¹

2018

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“…Ankara is quite segregated along lines of income, education and socio-political issues, and Tunali itself is a good example of this situation as the most contested street (Atac, 2016;F. Erkip, 2010).…”

Section: Urban Resilience and Street Retailingmentioning

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Resilience of a contested high street: The changing image of Tunali Hilmi Street in Ankara, Turkey

Erkíp

2020

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Globally designed shopping spaces constitute a threat to on-street retail, which provides citizens a mix of activity patterns, including shopping, leisure and socializing. Consumers seem to prefer controlled mall environments due to problems in urban centers such as heavy traffic, limited parking, crowding, density and security concerns. The Turkish situation, however, indicates a different trend, with lively inner-city streets coexisting with highly acclaimed shopping malls. This paper addresses changing retail patterns on Tunali Hilmi Street, the first high street in Ankara, which reflects socioeconomic and cultural dynamics of the last two decades in urban Turkey. This is a result of organic changes in the street's historical and demographic features as well as in Turkey's broader political and cultural environment. Since the millennium, the street has lost its distinctive quality as well as much of its upper-class clientele. The new visitor profile has been perceived by previous users as an invasion and threat to modern urban life. Recently, immigrants and refugees are starting to be seen on the street due to a nearby immigration office, which has caused further reaction. The paper's extended timespace analysis of Tunali Hilmi Street reflects an overall shift in urban life in Turkey.

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School-Based Residential Segregation in Ankara: A Divided Urban Pattern in Educational Lines

Ataç Kavurmacı

2024

Education and Urban Society

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Socio-spatial inequalities are on the rise in Turkey, resulting in increasing segregation between population groups with different socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Therefore, the link between school-based and residential segregation has become crucial for understanding urban and social divisions, specifically in the large metropolitan areas. However, our knowledge about this relationship in the case of Turkey and many non-Western countries is limited. What we know from the related literature based on Western experiences is that school and residential segregation are highly interrelated, and analyzing this relation is the key to understanding socio-spatial inequalities in cities. This article, therefore, aims to investigate the socio-spatial relation between the academic performance of high-schools and the residential segregation in educational line in Ankara, Turkey. In this article, academic performance is represented by national university entrance examination results at school level and residential segregation is analyzed through population census at the neighborhood level. The methodology involves the classification of public and private high schools in terms of academic performance and cross-referencing with schools’ educational environment. We find that in terms of the relationship between school’s academic performance and residential patterns Ankara is, in fact, a divided city in educational lines.

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A Divided Capital: Residential Segregation In Ankara

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Regeneration or Degeneration? An Untold Story of Urban Change in Turkish Metropolitan Cities

Regeneration or Degeneration? An Untold Story of Urban Change in Turkish Metropolitan Cities

Resilience of a contested high street: The changing image of Tunali Hilmi Street in Ankara, Turkey

School-Based Residential Segregation in Ankara: A Divided Urban Pattern in Educational Lines

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