Istanbul’s Metropolitan Growth Governance

Year 2022, Issue: 18, 21 - 36, 30.12.2022

Yüksel Demirkaya

Abstract

This article examines Istanbul’s metropolitan development in the light of current economic and administrative policies in theoretical perspective. Turkey started to work initially, with the intention of restructuring in response to the economic crisis, but over time, under the guidance of the private sector, the policies created resulted in political favoritism. The re-allocation of resources and changes in macro-economic policies in line with the preferences of the political government of the time was born out of the conservative bourgeois class. In summary the effect of neo-liberalism, the private sector became an important stakeholder in Turkey, and has been quite effective in the general economic policy formulation and direction.

Keywords

Istanbul’s Metropolitan Growth Governance, Istanbul, Governance

Thanks

This article is an expanded version (revised-expanded by about fifty percent) of The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector. The first version of the article was published in an edited book. However, I believe that it would be more beneficial if the article was expanded and published in an online journal in order to reach a wider audience. Y. Demirkaya (2019), “The Governance of Istanbul Metropolitan Development: The Role of the State and the Private Sector,” in Constructing Metropolitan Space: Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises, Editors, Prof. Dr. Jil Simone Gross, Prof. Dr. Enrico Gualini, Prof. Dr. Lin Ye, Routledge, New-York, ss. 88-108, 2019, ISBN:978-0-8153-8087-0

İstanbul Metropolitan Yönetimi

Abstract

Bu makale, İstanbul'un metropoliten gelişimini güncel ekonomik ve idari politikalar ışığında teorik perspektifte incelemektedir. Türkiye, ekonomik kriz karşısında yeniden yapılanma niyetiyle ilk etapta çalışmalara başlamış, ancak zamanla özel sektörün öncülüğünde oluşturulan politikalar siyasi kayırmacılıkla sonuçlanmıştır. Kaynakların yeniden tahsisi ve makro-ekonomik politikalardaki değişiklikler dönemin siyasi iktidarının tercihleri doğrultusunda muhafazakar burjuva sınıfından doğmuştur. Özetle neo-liberalizmin etkisiyle özel sektör Türkiye'de önemli bir paydaş haline gelmiş ve genel ekonomi politikasının oluşturulmasında ve yönlendirilmesinde oldukça etkili olmuştur.

Keywords

İstanbul, metropolitan governance, governance, İstanbul

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