Sara Özogul
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Özogul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Özogul |
| SIGNATURE | ÖZOGUL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9011-7995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fiscal Geographies of Housing Governance
Fiscal geography illuminates the uneven ramifications of taxation policies on urban and regional development. In terms of housing governance, however, there remains a notable gap in examining how the spatial selectivity of taxation plays out across scales. This article highlights the interconnection between national regulation, housing market dynamics, and local governance systems. It examines how property development and local regulation have ad…
Unlocking value in property investment and development for urban planning
Planning decisions routinely generate substantial economic value through land use regulation, infrastructure provision, and development rights, yet the translation of these gains into broader societal benefit remains fragmented and uneven. In this collection, we argue that value in urban planning must be understood as a multifaceted and institutionally embedded phenomenon shaped through legal frameworks, financial architectures, and planning prac…
Market mechanisms and low-income housing patterns in the context of urban growth
The private sector dominates low-income housing provision in both the Global North and South. Compared to the Global North, formal low-income housing in the Global South typically manifests as low-density urban sprawl. This study investigates how the layered motivations and strategies of developers shape low-income housing development patterns in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia. Semi-structured interviews with 21 developers—14 focused on…
Difficulties for Theorisation Within Planning Research and Practice – An Exploration of Key Dimensions of Planning Theories
The contribution by Benjamin Davy, Agnes Förster and Edward Shepherd sheds light on normative conflicts and the foundations of spatial planning in theories and practice. Here, the challenge of theorising lies in moving beyond individual moral-ethical positions. Instead of just referring to one set of individual planning ethics, the authors engage to reflect fundamentally on how planners can make clashing normative values visible and negotiable. T…
Pushing Boundaries
INTERFACEestate research span from allegations of being uncritical and pro-market to more technical hurdles involving the integration of various epistemological principles and methodologies.However, it is our firm belief that much of the pioneering work and boundary-pushing in this field is accomplished by early career researchers, driven by their pursuit of fresh insights and novel solutions with an open-minded and experimental approach.There is…
Prioritizing behaviour alongside regulations in Amsterdam’s planning projects
Project-specific actor constellations and relationships shape contemporary planning practice. The existing literature predominantly focuses on the flexibility of regulations in planning projects and largely ignores the behaviour of involved governance actors. Here, we argue that the nuances of relationship dynamics between public and private sector actors deserve increased scrutiny. Based on in-depth interviews with public planners and project ma…
Governing regional affordability
The Covid-19 pandemic has coincided with increased residential property investment outside the Amsterdam urban core and the ongoing departure of residents into its surrounding, more affordable metropolitan area. Underlying these developments, we have found increased regulatory efforts scattered across diverse public administration scales to improve housing delivery and access throughout the metropolitan region. Within these increasingly complex l…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Fragmentation in terms of institutional complexity and a multitude of governance actors involved in property development changes the nature of planning practice. I investigate how planners in Amsterdam, who operate as project managers, learn from interacting with property industry actors, and how their learning experiences travel beyond the project scale to instigate wider institutional change. Planners in Amsterdam struggle as the distance betwe…
After the crisis is before the crisis
Shifts in property markets are closely tied to changes in investment actors’ relations, shaped by wider economic and regulatory processes. However, the existing literature generally neglects the role of actors’ behaviour and agency within property market shifts, and how market shifts affect cities. In response, we establish a framework that systematically unpacks the role, characteristics and behaviour of property investors in investment market s…
Fragmented governance architectures underlying residential property production in Amsterdam
While the entrepreneurialisation of local administrations is widely acknowledged, the extent and format of institutional and organisational structures that accompany market-oriented ideological shifts and transitions in urban governance often remain unnoticed. This article provides an original theoretical argument and frame of analysis to forensically study the underlying infrastructures of entrepreneurial governance systems. We argue that comple…
Follow the Firm
Economic geography and housing studies have begun to grapple with how institutional investment operates and impacts particular cities or sites. There has been less attention to the ways in which institutional investment functions across different scales: the theorization of financialization has, to date, left unaddressed the ways in which global or international actors confront multiple scales of corporate strategy, politics, and markets. In this…
Adventure capital
Adventure capital: Migration and the making of an African hub in Paris, by Julie Kleinman." Journal of Urban Affairs, 43(4), pp. 614–615
Turkish Berlin
During recent years of economic hardship in Europe, attitudes towards immigrants appear to have worsened and integration is once again at the forefront of debates in many European countries. German
Follow the Firm
Economic geography and housing studies have begun to grapple with how institutional investment operates and impacts particular cities or sites. There has been less attention to the ways in which institutional investment functions across different scales: the theorization of financialization has, to date, left unaddressed the ways in which global or international actors confront multiple scales of corporate strategy, politics, and markets. In this…
After the crisis is before the crisis
Shifts in property markets are closely tied to changes in investment actors’ relations, shaped by wider economic and regulatory processes. However, the existing literature generally neglects the role of actors’ behaviour and agency within property market shifts, and how market shifts affect cities. In response, we establish a framework that systematically unpacks the role, characteristics and behaviour of property investors in investment market s…
Governing regional affordability
The Covid-19 pandemic has coincided with increased residential property investment outside the Amsterdam urban core and the ongoing departure of residents into its surrounding, more affordable metropolitan area. Underlying these developments, we have found increased regulatory efforts scattered across diverse public administration scales to improve housing delivery and access throughout the metropolitan region. Within these increasingly complex l…
Fragmented governance architectures underlying residential property production in Amsterdam
While the entrepreneurialisation of local administrations is widely acknowledged, the extent and format of institutional and organisational structures that accompany market-oriented ideological shifts and transitions in urban governance often remain unnoticed. This article provides an original theoretical argument and frame of analysis to forensically study the underlying infrastructures of entrepreneurial governance systems. We argue that comple…
Turkish Berlin
During recent years of economic hardship in Europe, attitudes towards immigrants appear to have worsened and integration is once again at the forefront of debates in many European countries. German
Adventure capital
Adventure capital: Migration and the making of an African hub in Paris, by Julie Kleinman." Journal of Urban Affairs, 43(4), pp. 614–615
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Fragmentation in terms of institutional complexity and a multitude of governance actors involved in property development changes the nature of planning practice. I investigate how planners in Amsterdam, who operate as project managers, learn from interacting with property industry actors, and how their learning experiences travel beyond the project scale to instigate wider institutional change. Planners in Amsterdam struggle as the distance betwe…
After the crisis is before the crisis
Shifts in property markets are closely tied to changes in investment actors’ relations, shaped by wider economic and regulatory processes. However, the existing literature generally neglects the role of actors’ behaviour and agency within property market shifts, and how market shifts affect cities. In response, we establish a framework that systematically unpacks the role, characteristics and behaviour of property investors in investment market s…
Fragmented governance architectures underlying residential property production in Amsterdam
While the entrepreneurialisation of local administrations is widely acknowledged, the extent and format of institutional and organisational structures that accompany market-oriented ideological shifts and transitions in urban governance often remain unnoticed. This article provides an original theoretical argument and frame of analysis to forensically study the underlying infrastructures of entrepreneurial governance systems. We argue that comple…
Follow the Firm
Economic geography and housing studies have begun to grapple with how institutional investment operates and impacts particular cities or sites. There has been less attention to the ways in which institutional investment functions across different scales: the theorization of financialization has, to date, left unaddressed the ways in which global or international actors confront multiple scales of corporate strategy, politics, and markets. In this…
Prioritizing behaviour alongside regulations in Amsterdam’s planning projects
Project-specific actor constellations and relationships shape contemporary planning practice. The existing literature predominantly focuses on the flexibility of regulations in planning projects and largely ignores the behaviour of involved governance actors. Here, we argue that the nuances of relationship dynamics between public and private sector actors deserve increased scrutiny. Based on in-depth interviews with public planners and project ma…
Governing regional affordability
The Covid-19 pandemic has coincided with increased residential property investment outside the Amsterdam urban core and the ongoing departure of residents into its surrounding, more affordable metropolitan area. Underlying these developments, we have found increased regulatory efforts scattered across diverse public administration scales to improve housing delivery and access throughout the metropolitan region. Within these increasingly complex l…
Pushing Boundaries
INTERFACEestate research span from allegations of being uncritical and pro-market to more technical hurdles involving the integration of various epistemological principles and methodologies.However, it is our firm belief that much of the pioneering work and boundary-pushing in this field is accomplished by early career researchers, driven by their pursuit of fresh insights and novel solutions with an open-minded and experimental approach.There is…
Difficulties for Theorisation Within Planning Research and Practice – An Exploration of Key Dimensions of Planning Theories
The contribution by Benjamin Davy, Agnes Förster and Edward Shepherd sheds light on normative conflicts and the foundations of spatial planning in theories and practice. Here, the challenge of theorising lies in moving beyond individual moral-ethical positions. Instead of just referring to one set of individual planning ethics, the authors engage to reflect fundamentally on how planners can make clashing normative values visible and negotiable. T…
Fiscal Geographies of Housing Governance
Fiscal geography illuminates the uneven ramifications of taxation policies on urban and regional development. In terms of housing governance, however, there remains a notable gap in examining how the spatial selectivity of taxation plays out across scales. This article highlights the interconnection between national regulation, housing market dynamics, and local governance systems. It examines how property development and local regulation have ad…
Unlocking value in property investment and development for urban planning
Planning decisions routinely generate substantial economic value through land use regulation, infrastructure provision, and development rights, yet the translation of these gains into broader societal benefit remains fragmented and uneven. In this collection, we argue that value in urban planning must be understood as a multifaceted and institutionally embedded phenomenon shaped through legal frameworks, financial architectures, and planning prac…
Market mechanisms and low-income housing patterns in the context of urban growth
The private sector dominates low-income housing provision in both the Global North and South. Compared to the Global North, formal low-income housing in the Global South typically manifests as low-density urban sprawl. This study investigates how the layered motivations and strategies of developers shape low-income housing development patterns in the Bandung Metropolitan Area, Indonesia. Semi-structured interviews with 21 developers—14 focused on…
Political science (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Finance (4 works)