Residential Experiences in Times of Shifting Housing Regimes in Istanbul

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Enlil Z. Ş., Dinçer İ. S.

in: Self-Build Experience: Institutionalisation, Place-making and City Building, Willem Salet,Camila D'Ottaviano,Stan Majoor,Daniel Bossuyt, Editor, Policy Press , Bristol, pp.167-189, 2020

• Publication Type: Book Chapter / Chapter Research Book
• Publication Date: 2020
• Publisher: Policy Press
• City: Bristol
• Page Numbers: pp.167-189
• Editors: Willem Salet,Camila D'Ottaviano,Stan Majoor,Daniel Bossuyt, Editor
• Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Chapter 9

Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul[1]

Zeynep Enlil, İclal Dinçer

 

Abstract

This chapter examines changing housing regimes in Istanbul. It analyses two forms of self-building that emerged as solutions improvised by people in response to the pressing housing need and became predominant modes of housing production since the 1950s, namely “gecekondu,” and “yap-sat” or “build-and-sell.” Although stimulated by governments for some decades, both of these self-regulated housing forms came to a point of expulsion under the new regime of capital accumulation based on aggressive real-estate development that has been adopted since the 2000s.