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    Resistant Urban Opposition Against the Commodification of Urban Space in Canakkale
    (Yildiz Technical Univ, Fac Architecture, 2018) Sakarya, Ipek
    Neoliberal urbanization policies began to affect Canakkale from the beginning of 2010. With this effect, the increasing force on urban growth has led to the development of several coastline projects in Canakkale. The civil initiatives of the city have started a resistant struggle, against the rising growth, in and out of the city council to prevent the implementation of these projects. Today against the neolibaral urbanization the concept of 'the Right to the City' which Lefebvre developped in 1968, gained more significance. The right to the city movement which organized against the projects developed with the aim of transforming urban space is the main goal of this study. The urban opposition flourished from civil society emerged with the demand to participate in the decision-making on the spatial development of the city by the municipality. The struggle, then, gradually became a struggle for the right to the city, spreading a broader social dimension and more stability. Within the scope of this research, two projects which were halted by the urban opposition, including the Marina project and the project developed in the area of Tekel land, were discussed. The emergence of these projects, their content and the urban opposition organized against these projects were analyzed with the in-depth interviews, and the media monitoring and the publications of urban opposition are also examined in this context. Where two different forms of urban opposition, namely deliberative and resistant, experienced in the case of Canakkale, the civil society in the city strengthened and the relationship between the municipality and the civil society was redefined. This article claims that right to the city struggle in Canakkale has emerged from a mutual relationship between the consolidation of local democracy and social transformation.
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    Rural Gentrification in The North Aegean Countryside (Turkey)
    (Selcuk Univ, 2018) Uysal, Arzu Basaran; Sakarya, Ipek
    This article examines rural gentrification as experienced on the North Aegean coasts of Turkey. The study area chosen is the closest Aegean coast to Istanbul and it attracts attention because of its archeological and mythological values, as well as its natural beauty and vernacular landscape. The most important element determining the rural landscape of the region is olive production. The study is based principally on indepth interviews with village mukhtars, local people, newcomers, tourism entrepreneurs, and professionals. While the rural gentrification process in Turkey, a Mediterranean country, shows similarities with the gentrification process in rural areas of developed Western countries, differences can be observed as well. Depopulation in rural areas since 1950s and development of tourism in coastal areas after 1980 has brought about the investment-disinvestment cycle, which is in the rural gentrification theory. It has been observed that in the rural area where tourism facilities have been improved, gentrification occurs in parallel. The migration of middle class to the villages has transformed the traditional land use and rural landscape. The newcomers, who are well educated and having a profession, use the houses in the villages as summerhouses. While stone houses unique to the region are purchased and restored, buildings used for agricultural production are transformed into summerhouses or buildings used for tourism. The increase in the demand for new housing threatens the olive groves and increasing real estate prices make it difficult for local people to acquire property in the villages. Reinvestment, social class change and the process of displacement, pointed out in the literature on the rural gentrification, are also observed in the North Aegean countryside. However, the real estate market did not yet play a significant role in the rural gentrification in this area, unlike in developed Western countries. On the other hand, replacement of the agricultural sector by the service sector and change in land use creates post-productive landscape in North Aegean Countryside.