Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AESOP, Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulance, Lodz, Polonya, 11 - 15 Temmuz 2023, ss.737-738
Planning, as a political and professional practice provides a legitimate capacity to reproduce urban space is often challenged by the neoliberal agenda. The interiorized neoliberal programs target the urban space as institutional laboratory practicing place-marketing strategies, urban development corporations, redevelopment projects as a state apparatus (Brenner and Theodore 2002). The planning approach in Turkey, especially post-1980 period, means of integration into the global economy, labour market conditions, policies regarding social cohesion, and urban land development and real estate regulations have had a consequential effect on cities; urban planning was perceived as a “comfortable, changeable structure ... in response to specific and individual demands” (Eraydın, 2008; Öncü, 1988).
The aggressive neoliberal approaches came after 2000s based on construction were manifested in the urban space, while planning became a tool in the decision-making process of the market with the goal of entrepreneurial and economic growth (Keyder ve Öncü, 1994; Ünlü, 2019). In such a process, the concept of urban transformation has paved the most suitable way for the urbanization of this type of capital, and has strengthened its position on a legitimate basis with laws enacted one after another. This eventuated the commodification of the built environment further and urban regeneration projects has become the most powerful development tools were used to generate a better commodity in which to invest more. Moreover, regardless of their success or failure, some of the urban transformation projects have resulted in insecure places that were failed to transformed due to institutional bottlenecks, lack of representation, disempowering the planning actors and leaving public alone with market forces. In this research, the local experience of the concept of urban transformation, which has evolved into a facilitating element of planning and planning as a legitimate tool in the production of urban space; the representation capacities and competencies of the actors of the process are traced regarding to the dichotomy of the empowered and disempowered planning actors triggered by the conflict environment; and the traces of the "de- transformation" process will be examined through Samsun Çarşamba district.