Transforming buildings, reorienting lives

The desire for gentrification in Istanbul

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11670570
AutoresCenk Özbay (0000-0002-6112-3878, Deptartment of Cultural Studies, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas411-432
Fecha de publicación2023-03-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2023.2190265
OpenAlexW4327739856
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas52

How do the marginalized middle-lower-class residents of a neighborhood yearn for and participate in gentrification? In Istanbul, the low-quality building stock and risk of earthquakes intensifies the need for urban transformation, making it seem inevitable and desirable. This article focuses on the experience of gentrification in the Hasanpaşa neighborhood of Istanbul, using an intersectional lens to discuss how the locals, who cultivate a reorienting agency, give consent and aspire for urban change. A form of aspirational normativity emerges among the locals, driving the positive affect around the ideal and materiality of renewal – exemplified by the transformation of an abandoned power plant into a cultural complex. The case of Hasanpaşa shows that we need to take into account the different starting points, multiple contextual features, and intersecting social positions in order to have a more complete understanding of the landscapes of urban change

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Ideal (ethics · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Stock (firearms · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society · Urban Planning and Governance