Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory – A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?

Lang, Thilo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12785-4_2

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“…Resilience is a concept borrowed from ecological research and developed by researchers in the social sciences, mainly geography and economics (see Muller, 2011 andLang, 2011 for detailed discussions on this topic). Simmie & Martin (2010, p. 28), claiming that there is no universally accepted definition of resilience, propose an ''adaptive model'' to understand how geographical regions adjust to disturbances through time (see also Replacis, 2011 for a detailed discussion of the evolution of the concept of resilience).…”

Section: The Resilience Of Urban Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retail development in Turkey: An account after two decades of shopping malls in the urban scene

Erkíp

Ozuduru

2015

Progress in Planning

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The social, economic and environmental impacts of large-scale retail outlets on existing retail and urban systems have been extensively discussed in the planning literature. This article documents the last two decades of transformation in Turkey's retail sector, which have been characterized by a more organized development of the sector than traditionally existed. We begin our analysis with the late 1980s and early 1990s, when more-liberal and outward-looking policies began to emerge in Turkish economic policy. Changes in the economy and related legislation prepared a base for the subsequent transformations of that decade, culminating, especially in large cities, in the development of shopping malls as alternative retail spaces to traditional markets and stores on a shopping street. We believe that the Turkish case reveals specific aspects of resistance, adaptation and change, and thus needs a detailed account. After providing a general picture of retailing and its transformation in Turkey, we provide empirical evidence from Ankara, the capital city, through which all important dynamics of retailing are exemplified. To this end, we ask the following questions: What are the evolving processes behind the existing location patterns of shopping centres in Ankara? What is the extent of the change in definition of the new public realm? How do street retailers survive? Who are the actors and what are their approaches towards retail planning in Turkey? The answers to these questions may provide implications for urban policy and retail planning in Turkey. The case may also be interesting for countries experiencing similar patterns of change and development, that is, where the globalization process in retailing and consumption-related sites began later than in other countries and observed fastpaced development. #

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Section: The Resilience Of Urban Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retail development in Turkey: An account after two decades of shopping malls in the urban scene

Erkíp

Ozuduru

2015

Progress in Planning

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“…No.1. 2017: 043-062;DOI: 10.15196/RS07103 highlights resilience as the stability of a system against interference (Welter-Enderlin 2006, Lang 2011. There are also approaches that draw attention to system capacity, which allows a system to avoid and manage natural and human-induced hazards (Bosher-Coafee 2008).…”

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Economic resilience and hybridization of development – A case of the Central European Regions

Drobniak¹

2017

Reg. Stat.

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“…Cummings (2011) stresses the role of system complexity and identity in resilience dynamics. Urban areas are good examples of complex systems, which exhibit various levels of resilience when threatened by an outside force (Lang, 2011). Martin (2012) notes that their complexity goes far beyond that, and can be explained by the concept of regional resilience.…”

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“…Researchers in social sciences, mainly in geography and economy, offer new points for debate on the shortcomings of the concept of resilience as defined ecologically (see Lang, 2011;Muller, 2011 for a detailed discussion). Simmie and Martin (2010), claiming that there is no universally accepted definition of resilience in economics and social sciences, reject 'equilibrist approaches' and argue that regions are continually changing and adapting to their economic environments instead of returning to a previous state.…”

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Retailers’ resilience strategies and their impacts on urban spaces in Turkey

Erkíp

Kızılgün²,

Akinci

2014

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a b s t r a c tRecent developments in the retail sector in Turkey have created a dynamic environment, with different resilience strategies of actors forming the sector providing a new context in which to discuss urban transformation. The developments have contributed to the public's awareness regarding multifaceted problems in the retail sector, many of which have a negative impact on urban space. Retailers, citizens and governing bodies variously contribute to this issue with different perceptions of and strategies on how to adapt to the changes. How these dynamics work and influence urban space in the Turkish context is the main focus of this research. A field survey in Ankara revealed that the resilience strategies of traditional retailers are reactive rather than proactive. This situation provides them with the flexibility to adapt themselves more quickly to the changes in the sector. However, as there is no holistic retail policy in Turkey, reactive strategies also result in unplanned use of urban space.

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Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory – A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?

Cited by 50 publications

References 13 publications

Retail development in Turkey: An account after two decades of shopping malls in the urban scene

Retail development in Turkey: An account after two decades of shopping malls in the urban scene

Economic resilience and hybridization of development – A case of the Central European Regions

Retailers’ resilience strategies and their impacts on urban spaces in Turkey

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