Deniz Altay Kaya

Eraydın, Ayda; Türel, Ali; Altay Kaya Deniz. (2013). “The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul”, pp. 179-196, in eds. Ayda Eraydın and Tuna Taşan-Kok, Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning, Geojournal Library vol. 106,Dordrecht: Springer.

There is consensus in literature that different social groups have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of urban economic and spatial restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideologies of recent decades. This paper argues that the social resilience framework is a critical tool for evaluating the social reverberations of contemporary urban transformation processes. We introduce social resilience as a factor determining the ability of different social groups to cope with the restructurings in labour and land markets. In this paper, with the help of the social resilience framework, the impacts of the large scale development projects taking place in the new core of the Istanbul metropolitan area on the different social groups are evaluated. The research analysed the resilience of different social groups residing in the case study area by relating the perceived threat of displacement to components of social resilience (livelihoods, participation, social capital, belonging, and perceived opportunities), with the help of logistic regression analysis.