Power Differentials in Istanbul Redevelopment Practices: Toward a More Collaborative Decision-Making Process

Waite, İmge Akçakaya

doi:10.1177/0739456x19898225

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“…A diverse group of participants not only provides comprehensive insights, but it also mitigates social contradictions. Therefore, collaborative decision making, with regard to sustainable urban renewal, can balance the demands of diverse stakeholders to promote sustainable development [7].…”

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Exploring the Key Factors Influencing Sustainable Urban Renewal from the Perspective of Multiple Stakeholders

Bai

Zhang

2023

Sustainability

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A successful urban renewal policy, process, and project implementation should advocate sustainable development from economic, social, and environmental perspectives. As different stakeholders have different interests and insights into the importance of the environment, housing, social wellbeing, and economic concerns, they often have different ideas concerning how to develop urban renewal strategies and implement projects. Although previous studies have focused on the opinions of governments and academics, fewer studies have considered the direct beneficiaries of urban renewal—the residents. This study examined the key factors that influence sustainable urban renewal from the perspective of multiple stakeholders, including local governments, residents, developers, and designers. Social network analysis (SNA) and the reliability interval method (RIM) were integrated to form a SNA-RIM analytical framework to analyze the importance of the influencing factors. The results showed that the adjustment of the regional industrial structure, employment opportunities, and environmental qualification improvement had the most significant influence on sustainable urban renewal from economic, social, and environmental perspectives, respectively. In addition, different types of stakeholders do not value sustainability indicators in the same way. Local governments place more emphasis on return on investment, employment opportunities, and environmental qualification improvement, whereas residents focus on per capita income growth rate, public service facilities, and convenience of municipal infrastructure. Developers are most interested in the land value growth rate, public service facilities, and effective land use space, whereas designers attach the greatest importance to the adjustment of regional industrial structure, public service facilities, and effective land use space. Therefore, this study can help urban planners and decision makers balance the interests, seek common benefits for different types of stakeholders, and improve sustainable and inclusive urban renewal.

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Exploring the Key Factors Influencing Sustainable Urban Renewal from the Perspective of Multiple Stakeholders

Bai

Zhang

2023

Sustainability

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“…The discourse on power is one of the main components of contemporary planning theory (Shepherd et al, 2020; Waite, 2020), also related to rural planning (Beza, 2016; Johansen and Chandler, 2015; Martin and Rutagarama, 2012). Debates on institutional reform tend to obscure the role of power in development (Kashwan et al, 2019).…”

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Power dynamics in collaborative rural planning: The case of Pematang Tengah, Indonesia

Taufiq

Suhirman

Sofhani

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Starting from the notion that collaborative rural planning focuses on policymaking through authentic dialogue, this article discusses the power dynamics that influence the planning process and product. It was motivated by the presumption that the understanding of collaborative policymaking is not adequate if it only concerns formal deliberation without considering other power dynamics. Booher and Innes’s model of network power in collaborative policymaking (DIAD–Diversity, Interdependence, Authentic Dialogue) and the power cube model of Gaventa were used to analyze the power mechanisms in the formal as well as in the informal arenas. They were applied to the process of village planning in Pematang Tengah, Indonesia, where the agrarian village community, deliberative bureaucrats, and other stakeholders are involved in formulating development rural planning projects. From the analysis a new model was derived, revealing three power mechanisms that are active in three different phases of the collaborative planning process: (I) Figuring out in openness, (II) Herding of public desire, and (III) Forcing of direction. The findings show that power mechanism (II) in the informal arena plays an important role by steering the course of policymaking in the formal arena (I). Power mechanism (III) is active when invisible actors illegitimately change the planning product that the formal deliberation has produced, acting out of self-interest. The analysis of power mechanisms that are active in the whole planning process can help planners in dealing with formal and informal power when developing appropriate planning strategies through a deliberative process.

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“…The community involvement was weakened and marginalized, and the local redevelopment agenda is mostly framed on the state agenda. The stakeholder’s involvement was structured in the current national legislative and political framework (Waite, 2016).…”

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The Role of the Elite in City Expansion: Nablus City in the Palestinian Central Mountains as a Case Study

Ghazal

Hammad²,

Abdulfattah³

2022

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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The growth of cities has been facilitated by a variety of factors. One of these is the land annexation by municipality with the assistance of elite individuals. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the elite influenced Nablus—in central Palestine Municipality’s expansion. The study scanned Nablus Municipality Archives, conducted interviews with the annexed villages’ people and used master plans to trace out the city’s expansion across time from 1960 to 2016 (Jordanian rule, Israeli occupation, and Palestinian Authority rule). The ‘elite’ theory has been used to explain how the expansion process succeeded. The analysis found that elite groups proposed and oversaw Nablus Municipality’s expansion boundaries at various times, delayed master plan’s approval and influenced the distribution plots for popular housing projects.

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Power Differentials in Istanbul Redevelopment Practices: Toward a More Collaborative Decision-Making Process

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Exploring the Key Factors Influencing Sustainable Urban Renewal from the Perspective of Multiple Stakeholders

Exploring the Key Factors Influencing Sustainable Urban Renewal from the Perspective of Multiple Stakeholders

Power dynamics in collaborative rural planning: The case of Pematang Tengah, Indonesia

The Role of the Elite in City Expansion: Nablus City in the Palestinian Central Mountains as a Case Study

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