Evolving Legal And Institutional Frameworks Of Neoliberal Urban Policies In Turkey

摘要

Geographical perspectives on neoliberalism unraveling the connectionsbetween neoliberalisation and urban processes have long been the focusof academic inquiry (Brenner et al., 2009; Brenner and Theodore, 2002;Jessop, 2002; Peck and Tickell, 2002; Peck et al., 2009). A substantial body ofliterature analyses urban development patterns in Turkey with a particularreference to neoliberalism as well. The focus of these analyses range froman emphasis on restructuring metropolitan areas to bring about functioningland and property markets in the search for a neoliberal modernisationof the city (Lovering and Türkmen, 2011) to a discussion on the changingurban policy framework through analyses of neoliberalism as a politicalrationality (Karaman, 2013). The judicial and administrative contexts areelaborated (Erayd?n, 2012; Türkün, 2011) to explore the ways in whichneoliberal policies affect urban development and planning system inTurkey. Large urban transformation projects are considered to be themain mechanisms through which a neoliberal policy scheme targetingincompletely commodified urban areas (Kuyucu and ünsal, 2010), whereasnegative impacts of construction activity by either public (Balaban, 2012) orprivate sectors on urban spatial processes constitute a significant outcomeof neoliberal urban policies