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      Encountering the Urban Crisis: The Gezi Event and the Politics of Urban Design

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      Batuman, B.
      Baykan, D.A.
      Deniz, E.
      Date
      2016
      Source Title
      Journal of Architectural Education
      Print ISSN
      1046-4883
      Electronic ISSN
      1531-314X
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      70
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      189 - 202
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article addresses an experimental urban design studio conducted in Bilkent University in Ankara, which problematized the protests that initially started in Gezi Park in Istanbul and shook Turkey in the summer of 2013. As will be argued in detail below, we claim that the Gezi event represents an urban crisis. The particular event was the rapid escalation of a small protest against the destruction of a public space into a nationwide anti-government insurrection. But it also represented a larger urban crisis: the increasing influence of neoliberalism on the city, as the protests were the outcome of a period marked by zealous commodification of urban space. In both instances, such urban conflicts have to be addressed by urban designers, since they produce the renewal projects that gentrify urban spaces and, at the same time, seek possible alternatives for a better urban environment.
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/36617
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2016.1197655
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