Abstract

Mainstream urban design has been criticized as becoming a conformist practice and the tool of neoliberal urbanism. However, non-conformist minority in urban design has emerged in search of ways to demarcate opportunities to emancipate making of urban landscapes and the discipline from the dominancy of market-oriented practices. Against this context, this chapter aims to elaborate the meaning of emancipation and emancipatory practice for urban design through a case study: the Yeldegirmeni Neighbourhood Revitalisation Project (2010-2013) in Istanbul that sought to identify an alternative to top-down gentrification based on a participatory model embracing local dwellers’ social and spatial production.

Published in

Title: Public Space Unbound : Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition
ISBN: 978-1-138-21309-8, eISBN: 978-1-315-44920-3
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

SLU Authors

• Yigit Turan, Burcu

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable


UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315449203

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99336