Verticalities in comparison: Debates on high-rise construction in Izmir and Istanbul

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dc.contributor.authorAnlam, Filiz
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-04T17:43:53Z
dc.date.available2024-04-04T17:43:53Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentTAÜ, Kültür ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractLarge-scale high-rise architecture projects have been central to the rise of the construction industry in Turkey in recent years. This vertical escalation, however, has not been received without dissidence. Scholars, activists, journalists and officials with different viewpoints have participated in media debates regarding the reasons and consequences of this transformation. In these discussions, stakeholders have raised various environmental, cultural and ethical concerns that the vertical organisation of cities generate. Focussing on juxtapositions of Izmir and Istanbul in debates on urban verticality in the city of Izmir, Turkey’s third most populated city, the paper examines how such comparisons with Istanbul, where the recent urban neoliberal transformation is experienced most intensely, have been mobilised to oppose vertical expansion. The paper argues that as a result of the recent centralisation of the Turkish economy around construction, the hyper-visibility of skyscrapers and the concentration of the urban transformation generated by the Turkish construction industry in Istanbul, skyscrapers have become materialised symbols of Istanbul’s integration into global capitalism, neoliberal urbanisation, and the difference between Istanbul and other urban centres in Turkey. This example establishes urban verticality as a discursive axis at which urban centres outside of the Global North establish their difference from each other.
dc.identifier.citationAnlam, F. (2023). Verticalities in comparison: Debates on high-rise construction in Izmir and Istanbul. Urban Studies, 61 (4).
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/004209802311680
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85161664387
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12846/1023
dc.identifier.volume61en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001002281400001
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofUrban Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.titleVerticalities in comparison: Debates on high-rise construction in Izmir and Istanbul
dc.typeArticle

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