Revitalizing the Yeldegirmeni Neighbourhood in Istanbul Towards an Emancipatory Urban Design in the Landscapes of Neoliberal Urbanism

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: 978-1-315-44920-3Publisher: Taylor and Francis

SLU Authors

• Yigit Turan, Burcu

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

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities


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