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

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dc.citation.epage202en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage189en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber70en_US
dc.contributor.authorBatuman, B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBaykan, D.A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDeniz, E.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T10:46:03Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T10:46:03Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Urban Design and Landscape Architectureen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10464883.2016.1197655en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1531-314X
dc.identifier.issn1046-4883
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/36617
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2016.1197655en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Architectural Educationen_US
dc.titleEncountering the Urban Crisis: The Gezi Event and the Politics of Urban Designen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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