The Spatial Urban Hierarchy in Turkey: Its Structure and Some of Its Determinants

Mutlu, Servet

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2257.1988.tb00475.x

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“…Because of decrease of agricultural subsidies, and free trade policy to import agricultural products and closing down factories in the cities at the lower levels of the urban hierarchy, while the number of cities were increased at the top three levels of the urban hierarchy, they decreased at the smallest city group due to decrease of the agricultural sector. The dependency of small city populations on the agricultural population was already illustrated by the previous studies (Mutlu, 1988).…”

Section: Meci 1986)mentioning

confidence: 75%

“…This finding is parallel with another research on the urban hierarchy in Turkey: "The system is a mixed hierarchy. It does not conform to any of the pure theoretical K networks advanced by Lösch and Christaller…" (Mutlu, 1988) Moreover, despite the rapid urbanization at the country level, it is observed that large cities are not equally distributed among the regions. Not only mal distribution of income but also lack of large cities encourages migration from the East to the West due to insufficient job opportunities (Akın & Dökmeci, 2015;Yazgi et al, 2014) as in the other countries (Alexander, 1978;Fan, 2005;Greenwood, Mueser, Plane, & Schlottmann, 1991;J.…”

Section: East Anatolia Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A research on the rank-size distribution of Turkish cities also uses five groups starting form 10.000 population (Dökmeci, 1986). Although another research on spatial urban hierarchy of Turkey defines seven levels total, it includes settlements with population lower than 10.000, but five hierarchical levels defined over 10.000 population limit (Mutlu, 1988). Population of cities have great range starting from 1940 to 2015.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Development of urban hierarchies at the country and regional levels in Turkey

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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the hierarchical distribution of different city size groups at the country and regional level between 1945 and 2015 in Turkey. During this period, previous studies have illustrated that human mobility played an important role for the physical and socio-economic transformation of cities and regions. At the country level, first, while the growth rate of the number of smaller cities was higher than the others, the growth rate of population was the highest in the large cities. However, later, despite the population increase, the number of small cities was decreased due to transformation of economy from rural to industrial. During the post-modern era, globalization contributed even further the growth of large cities. As a result, hierarchical distribution of different size cities according to regions reveals the wide gap with respect to urbanization between the East and the West of the country. While the metropolitan cities are over urbanized in the urban hierarchy due to globalization, some of the regions in the East do not have large cities due to lack of economic development and higher out-migration rate. Mobility of capital and the people from the East to the West do not allow the full-fledged development of the urban hierarchy in the Black Sea and the East Anatolia Regions. This results in shortage of jobs and thus it becomes a vicious cycle for underdevelopment.

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Section: Meci 1986)mentioning

confidence: 75%