Tuna Taşan-Kok
Biographic Data
| ID | 352081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tuna Taşan-Kok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tuna |
| FAMILY NAME | Taşan-Kok |
| SIGNATURE | TAŞAN-KOK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4902-6650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When flexibility backfires
This article explores the Polish Housing Specust Law (Lex Deweloper), enacted in 2018, which enables developers to bypass traditional spatial planning processes for residential projects. This law exemplifies a form of adaptive law that prioritizes and justifies flexibility and expedited processes to address pressing housing needs. While this adaptive framework allows for quicker decision-making and implementation, it introduces spatial conflicts,…
Navigating the paradox of consensus
The critique of consensus within post-political literature has characterised the relationship between consensus and conflict as oppositional. Drawing on an in-depth re-reading of Habermasian theory of communicative action and a comparative inquiry in to the experience of planning practitioners in Amsterdam and Ankara informed by Forester’s critical pragmatism, we propose that the relationship between consensus and conflict is dynamic and mutually…
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…
Community politics in urban regeneration under authoritarian entrepreneurial governance
This article explores the authoritarian entrepreneurial approach to urban governance and its transformative influence on community dynamics in Istanbul’s Fikirtepe Urban Regeneration Project. As a large-scale urban redevelopment initiative, Fikirtepe has become a contested ground of competing interests, where strict regulations coexist with flexible planning practices, forming a complex governance model that turns community actors into quasi-deve…
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…
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance
In the realm of urban regeneration, this paper analyses the key role of institutionalized self-organization within entrepreneurial governance frameworks, arguing how organized community groups can influence urban policy through engagement in policy networks. Focusing on the transformation initiative in Istanbul's Derbent informal neighbourhood (gecekondu), where community-driven innovation emerged in the face of state-led urban development, this …
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…
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…
The Future of the Planning Profession
This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …
Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance
In this article we explore the idea of public accountability in the contemporary entrepreneurial governance of cities, which are influenced by market dependency and private sector involvement. We specifically focus on the fragmentation of public accountability through hybrid contractual landscapes of governance, in which the public and private sector actors interactively produce a diversity of instruments to ensure performance in service. This is…
Love thy neighbor? Remnants of the social-mix policy in the Kolenkit neighborhood, Amsterdam
Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance
Urban regeneration projects involve complex contractual deals between public- and private-sector actors. Critics contend that contracts hamper opportunities for flexibility and change in these projects due to strict provisions that are incorporated in legal agreements. This article offers contrary empirical insights based on a study of contractual arrangements for urban regeneration projects in the Netherlands, including an analysis of interviews…
A Tale of Two Cities
In major cities across the world policy-makers are searching for new ways to represent and govern their increasingly diverse populations. In this paper we analyse the ways in which authorities in two global cities, London and Toronto, have drawn on corporate, public management, strategies as their principal mode of diversity governance. In both we see a shift in policy making as a conscious attempt to reframe and re-imagine cities as corporate-li…
Governing urban diversity
In recent academic and urban policy writings the term urban diversity is usually understood, or discussed within the context of, increasing ‘socio-cultural’ diversity in cities or is explicitly connected to debates over immigration and demographic change. Although policy agendas follow certain common trends ‘to deal with’ the consequences of diversity, there is a lack of evidence-based research on how representations of diversity are mobilised an…
Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement
Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the ‘consensus approach’, which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a counter argument. Our analysis of the highly institutionalised and consensus-oriented Dutch planning framework shows that this system does not necessarily prevent effective…
The Study Area
Dominant narratives and discourses of diversity in Toronto have for long been predominantly based on ethnic origin and immigration due to the migration history and tradition in Canada which is increasingly reliant on immigration for population and labour market growth (Wayland, 2006). In Canada, national and city level diversity policies are often very different, although discourses at the federal level have an important impact upon city and even…
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
State Response to Contemporary Urban Movements in Turkey
This paper grapples with the state's response to contemporary urban movements. In light of recent debates on the changing nature of urban movements, it presents an overview of the responses of states in different modes of regulation, ranging from a Keynesian regime to sequential stages of neoliberalisation. Examples of authoritarianism and the entrepreneurial roles of the state are drawn from the Turkish experience to show how economic liberalism…
Rescaling Europe
Rescaling state responsibilities and capacities not only triggers an uneven distribution of regulatory and fiscal powers across scales but also creates complex governance relationships that result in distortions in local processes of urban development. Within this framework, this article analyses how Single European Market regulations affect urban governance capacity through their impact on localized networks of governance. This analysis is based…
Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
Providing Cheap Land for Social Housing
Tasan-Kok T., Groetelaers D. A., Haffner M. E. A., van der Heijden H. M. H. and Korthals Altes W. K. Providing cheap land for social housing: breaching the state aid regulations of the single European Market?, Regional Studies. European Union member states are not permitted to provide aid that will distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods which may then undermine trading in the European market. This…
Flexibility in Planning and the Consequences for Public-value Capturing in UK, Spain and the Netherlands
In the 1960s, flexibility was often seen in planning literature as a negative feature, whereas today it is perceived by planners and policy-makers as a positive asset to cope with the challenges of growing complexity, opportunism and diversity in cities. The discussion seems to rest between two approaches. While planning should be flexible to facilitate a non-linear and multi-layered decision-making system, implementation should not be too flexib…
Entrepreneurial Governance
Large‐scale urban regeneration projects become highly complex as they involve multiple actors with different expectations. In general, the implementation of such projects entails building governance regimes at the city or regional level, but this often means forging partnerships between public and private actors to serve as policy instruments. Each city government formulates its own strategy for coping with the complexities of various levels of p…
Changing Interpretations of 'Flexibility' in the Planning Literature
This article reflects on changing interpretations of flexibility in planning literature from the planning scholars' point of view. Flexibility was seen as a negative feature in the 1960s in the literature. In time, the literature shifted towards the idea that flexibility may be a positive asset that helps the stakeholders of urban development to cope with the challenges of growing complexity and diversity in urban space and society. In the recent…
Entrepreneurial Governance
Large‐scale urban regeneration projects become highly complex as they involve multiple actors with different expectations. In general, the implementation of such projects entails building governance regimes at the city or regional level, but this often means forging partnerships between public and private actors to serve as policy instruments. Each city government formulates its own strategy for coping with the complexities of various levels of p…
Changing Interpretations of 'Flexibility' in the Planning Literature
This article reflects on changing interpretations of flexibility in planning literature from the planning scholars' point of view. Flexibility was seen as a negative feature in the 1960s in the literature. In time, the literature shifted towards the idea that flexibility may be a positive asset that helps the stakeholders of urban development to cope with the challenges of growing complexity and diversity in urban space and society. In the recent…
State Response to Contemporary Urban Movements in Turkey
This paper grapples with the state's response to contemporary urban movements. In light of recent debates on the changing nature of urban movements, it presents an overview of the responses of states in different modes of regulation, ranging from a Keynesian regime to sequential stages of neoliberalisation. Examples of authoritarianism and the entrepreneurial roles of the state are drawn from the Turkish experience to show how economic liberalism…
Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance
Urban regeneration projects involve complex contractual deals between public- and private-sector actors. Critics contend that contracts hamper opportunities for flexibility and change in these projects due to strict provisions that are incorporated in legal agreements. This article offers contrary empirical insights based on a study of contractual arrangements for urban regeneration projects in the Netherlands, including an analysis of interviews…
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…
Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance
In this article we explore the idea of public accountability in the contemporary entrepreneurial governance of cities, which are influenced by market dependency and private sector involvement. We specifically focus on the fragmentation of public accountability through hybrid contractual landscapes of governance, in which the public and private sector actors interactively produce a diversity of instruments to ensure performance in service. This is…
Rescaling Europe
Rescaling state responsibilities and capacities not only triggers an uneven distribution of regulatory and fiscal powers across scales but also creates complex governance relationships that result in distortions in local processes of urban development. Within this framework, this article analyses how Single European Market regulations affect urban governance capacity through their impact on localized networks of governance. This analysis is based…
Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement
Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the ‘consensus approach’, which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a counter argument. Our analysis of the highly institutionalised and consensus-oriented Dutch planning framework shows that this system does not necessarily prevent effective…
Providing Cheap Land for Social Housing
Tasan-Kok T., Groetelaers D. A., Haffner M. E. A., van der Heijden H. M. H. and Korthals Altes W. K. Providing cheap land for social housing: breaching the state aid regulations of the single European Market?, Regional Studies. European Union member states are not permitted to provide aid that will distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods which may then undermine trading in the European market. This…
Community politics in urban regeneration under authoritarian entrepreneurial governance
This article explores the authoritarian entrepreneurial approach to urban governance and its transformative influence on community dynamics in Istanbul’s Fikirtepe Urban Regeneration Project. As a large-scale urban redevelopment initiative, Fikirtepe has become a contested ground of competing interests, where strict regulations coexist with flexible planning practices, forming a complex governance model that turns community actors into quasi-deve…
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…
Love thy neighbor? Remnants of the social-mix policy in the Kolenkit neighborhood, Amsterdam
Governing urban diversity
In recent academic and urban policy writings the term urban diversity is usually understood, or discussed within the context of, increasing ‘socio-cultural’ diversity in cities or is explicitly connected to debates over immigration and demographic change. Although policy agendas follow certain common trends ‘to deal with’ the consequences of diversity, there is a lack of evidence-based research on how representations of diversity are mobilised an…
Global urban forms and local strategies of property market actors
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…
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance
In the realm of urban regeneration, this paper analyses the key role of institutionalized self-organization within entrepreneurial governance frameworks, arguing how organized community groups can influence urban policy through engagement in policy networks. Focusing on the transformation initiative in Istanbul's Derbent informal neighbourhood (gecekondu), where community-driven innovation emerged in the face of state-led urban development, this …
A Tale of Two Cities
In major cities across the world policy-makers are searching for new ways to represent and govern their increasingly diverse populations. In this paper we analyse the ways in which authorities in two global cities, London and Toronto, have drawn on corporate, public management, strategies as their principal mode of diversity governance. In both we see a shift in policy making as a conscious attempt to reframe and re-imagine cities as corporate-li…
Global–local interaction and its impact on cities
Global urban forms and local strategies of property market actors
Changing Interpretations of 'Flexibility' in the Planning Literature
This article reflects on changing interpretations of flexibility in planning literature from the planning scholars' point of view. Flexibility was seen as a negative feature in the 1960s in the literature. In time, the literature shifted towards the idea that flexibility may be a positive asset that helps the stakeholders of urban development to cope with the challenges of growing complexity and diversity in urban space and society. In the recent…
Flexibility in Planning and the Consequences for Public-value Capturing in UK, Spain and the Netherlands
In the 1960s, flexibility was often seen in planning literature as a negative feature, whereas today it is perceived by planners and policy-makers as a positive asset to cope with the challenges of growing complexity, opportunism and diversity in cities. The discussion seems to rest between two approaches. While planning should be flexible to facilitate a non-linear and multi-layered decision-making system, implementation should not be too flexib…
Entrepreneurial Governance
Large‐scale urban regeneration projects become highly complex as they involve multiple actors with different expectations. In general, the implementation of such projects entails building governance regimes at the city or regional level, but this often means forging partnerships between public and private actors to serve as policy instruments. Each city government formulates its own strategy for coping with the complexities of various levels of p…
Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
Providing Cheap Land for Social Housing
Tasan-Kok T., Groetelaers D. A., Haffner M. E. A., van der Heijden H. M. H. and Korthals Altes W. K. Providing cheap land for social housing: breaching the state aid regulations of the single European Market?, Regional Studies. European Union member states are not permitted to provide aid that will distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods which may then undermine trading in the European market. This…
Rescaling Europe
Rescaling state responsibilities and capacities not only triggers an uneven distribution of regulatory and fiscal powers across scales but also creates complex governance relationships that result in distortions in local processes of urban development. Within this framework, this article analyses how Single European Market regulations affect urban governance capacity through their impact on localized networks of governance. This analysis is based…
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
State Response to Contemporary Urban Movements in Turkey
This paper grapples with the state's response to contemporary urban movements. In light of recent debates on the changing nature of urban movements, it presents an overview of the responses of states in different modes of regulation, ranging from a Keynesian regime to sequential stages of neoliberalisation. Examples of authoritarianism and the entrepreneurial roles of the state are drawn from the Turkish experience to show how economic liberalism…
The Study Area
Dominant narratives and discourses of diversity in Toronto have for long been predominantly based on ethnic origin and immigration due to the migration history and tradition in Canada which is increasingly reliant on immigration for population and labour market growth (Wayland, 2006). In Canada, national and city level diversity policies are often very different, although discourses at the federal level have an important impact upon city and even…
Governing urban diversity
In recent academic and urban policy writings the term urban diversity is usually understood, or discussed within the context of, increasing ‘socio-cultural’ diversity in cities or is explicitly connected to debates over immigration and demographic change. Although policy agendas follow certain common trends ‘to deal with’ the consequences of diversity, there is a lack of evidence-based research on how representations of diversity are mobilised an…
Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement
Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the ‘consensus approach’, which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a counter argument. Our analysis of the highly institutionalised and consensus-oriented Dutch planning framework shows that this system does not necessarily prevent effective…
The Future of the Planning Profession
This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …
Hybrid contractual landscapes of governance
In this article we explore the idea of public accountability in the contemporary entrepreneurial governance of cities, which are influenced by market dependency and private sector involvement. We specifically focus on the fragmentation of public accountability through hybrid contractual landscapes of governance, in which the public and private sector actors interactively produce a diversity of instruments to ensure performance in service. This is…
Love thy neighbor? Remnants of the social-mix policy in the Kolenkit neighborhood, Amsterdam
Contractual arrangements and entrepreneurial governance
Urban regeneration projects involve complex contractual deals between public- and private-sector actors. Critics contend that contracts hamper opportunities for flexibility and change in these projects due to strict provisions that are incorporated in legal agreements. This article offers contrary empirical insights based on a study of contractual arrangements for urban regeneration projects in the Netherlands, including an analysis of interviews…
A Tale of Two Cities
In major cities across the world policy-makers are searching for new ways to represent and govern their increasingly diverse populations. In this paper we analyse the ways in which authorities in two global cities, London and Toronto, have drawn on corporate, public management, strategies as their principal mode of diversity governance. In both we see a shift in policy making as a conscious attempt to reframe and re-imagine cities as corporate-li…
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…
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…
From entrepreneurial to responsive spatial governance
In the realm of urban regeneration, this paper analyses the key role of institutionalized self-organization within entrepreneurial governance frameworks, arguing how organized community groups can influence urban policy through engagement in policy networks. Focusing on the transformation initiative in Istanbul's Derbent informal neighbourhood (gecekondu), where community-driven innovation emerged in the face of state-led urban development, this …
Community politics in urban regeneration under authoritarian entrepreneurial governance
This article explores the authoritarian entrepreneurial approach to urban governance and its transformative influence on community dynamics in Istanbul’s Fikirtepe Urban Regeneration Project. As a large-scale urban redevelopment initiative, Fikirtepe has become a contested ground of competing interests, where strict regulations coexist with flexible planning practices, forming a complex governance model that turns community actors into quasi-deve…
When flexibility backfires
This article explores the Polish Housing Specust Law (Lex Deweloper), enacted in 2018, which enables developers to bypass traditional spatial planning processes for residential projects. This law exemplifies a form of adaptive law that prioritizes and justifies flexibility and expedited processes to address pressing housing needs. While this adaptive framework allows for quicker decision-making and implementation, it introduces spatial conflicts,…
Political science (21 works) · Economics (16 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (16 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Corporate governance (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Finance (8 works)