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Managing the Problems of the Cities: Doing Business While Governing Istanbul

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Abstract

Yıldırım Şentürk, on the basis of his observations and research, tries to picture being individuals in a megacity entangled with many urban problems. He explores the peculiarities of the problems of the megacity and underlines the management strategies implemented in these. According to him, the urban problems in the megacity are due to multi-actors and multi-causes and are, therefore, becoming more complex and difficult to comprehend. He argues that the neoliberal urban policy-oriented city authorities, as well as entrepreneurs, have turned these peculiarities of the urban problems to their advantage for legitimating neoliberal urban policies. Şentürk points out how alternative urban movements and actors need to adopt new political strategies against this urban neoliberalism in order to receive more support from the inhabitants of the city.

I would like to thank Emel Şentürk, Gülçin Erdi, Çare Olgun Çalışkan, and Carolyn Gifford for their comments, supports, or editing on previous versions of the chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a general critique of development theories, see (Escobar 1995).

  2. 2.

    For a collection seeking to analyse the Gezi Movement by various sociological aspects, see (Öğütle and Göker 2014).

  3. 3.

    With similar concern, Yücak (2013) evaluates the politics of urban movements and activism in Turkey .

  4. 4.

    http://www.haberler.com/basbakan-erdogan-kendinize-guvenmiyorsaniz-acikca-4033064-haberi.

  5. 5.

    For a recent account on asbestos in Turkey , see (Adalet Arayana Destek Grubu 2016).

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    http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/361na6_en.pdf.

  7. 7.

    “Network of Dispossession” presents detailed information about the links among firms, projects and the city authorities and provides enormous clues on political patronage . See http://mulksuzlestirme.org/index.en/.

  8. 8.

    For detail schematizations of these networks, see “Network of Dispossession” website: http://mulksuzlestirme.org/index.en/.

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Şentürk, Y. (2017). Managing the Problems of the Cities: Doing Business While Governing Istanbul. In: Erdi, G., Şentürk, Y. (eds) Identity, Justice and Resistance in the Neoliberal City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58632-2_10

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