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This thesis aims to analyze the notion of urban citizenship in istanbul and how it has been mapped onto the urban public spaces of the city. Urban public spaces and thus urban images of istanbul are constructed around ideas of civilization. in this thesis the relationship of city dwellers and urban public spaces is scrutinized through conceptualizing the notion of civilization in the context of globalization as an analytical tool which accounts for the governmentality of space. in this context a discourse of sociality constructed through parks gardens and green fields social facilities open-air gyms and museums formalizes and regulates the practices of urbanites and thus the notion of urban citizenship is defined through the sense of social belonging to the city. -- Abstract'tan. ; Bu tez, İstanbul'da kentli kavramını ve bu kavramın kentin kamusal mekanlarına nasıl haritalandığını analiz etmeyi amaçlıyor. İstanbul'un kent imajları ve kamusal mekanları uygarlaşma kavramının etrafında kurulur. Bu tezde, kent sakinleri ile kamusal mekanlar arasındaki ilişki, mekanın yönetimini de açıklayan uygarlaşma kavramının küreselleşme bağlamında analitik bir araç olarak kavramsallaştırılması yoluyla incelenir. Bu bağlamda, parklar, bahçeler ve yeşil alanlar, sosyal tesisler, açık spor alanları ve müzeler aracılığıyla kurulan sosyallik söylemi, kentlilerin pratiklerini şekillendirir ve düzenler. Böylece kentli kavramı da kentle kurulan sosyal aidiyet duygusuyla tanımlanır.

The essay discusses Danish urban politics and its present-day challenges in two partly separated sections: first, the intra-urban issues of social change, marginalisation and exclusion, and related problems; and secondly, inter-urban or regional development. Finally, the essay ends with a discussion of current trends in urban policy: are we on our way to more market domination and less state control? Urban policy is a quite broad topic, which cannot easily be defined. In this essay, urban policy is used more pragmatically. In general, it can be used in three different ways: as a policy directed towards steering and regulating cities and their internal conditions; as a sector policy targeted at specific urban phenomena, such as traffic policy, housing and planning policies; and as sector policies, such as financial or social policy with unintended urban effects. This essay will focus on the first, intended sort of urban policies, although others forms have had major impact on the shaping of urban conditions.

Nachbarschaftsgärten und Interkulturelle Gärten, bepflanzte Baumscheiben und Fassaden mit Obst zum Selbsternten, temporäre Gemüsebeete auf Brachen und blühende Straßeninseln werden als Ausdruck einer neuen urbanen Agrikultur interpretiert. Nicht nur Streuobstwiesen und Äcker am Stadtrand, auch Selbsterntefelder und die Nutzung temporärer Wälder als Kurzumtriebsplantagen gehören neuerdings zu den als produktive Stadtlandschaften bezeichneten landwirtschaftlich und gärtnerisch genutzten stadtregionalen Grünräumen. Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau in der Stadt scheinen en vogue, und die Zahl neuer Projekte wächst kontinuierlich. Aber auch in den Fachdiskussionen befassen sich zahlreiche Beiträge zu innovativen Ansätzen für eine zukunftsfähige und nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung mit dem Phänomen des urbanen Gärtnerns und der urbanen Landwirtschaft. Dieser Band betrachtet auf der Grundlage aktueller Forschungsergebnisse und Praxisbeispiele die Relevanz des Themas für die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Städte und Stadtregionen. Identifiziert werden neue Herausforderungen für den kommunalen Umgang mit Landwirtschaft und Gärten.

Urban regime theory has shaped the urban politics research agenda in the United States for the past two decades. The article argues that urban regime theory draws on public and corporate behavior and strategies that were typical to the industrial era in the United States. As a result, the theory is insensitive to changes in institutional hierarchies, economic globalization, and the emergence of new types of actors and issues in urban politics. Urban governance theory conceptualizes agency more generically that allows the theory to travel better than urban regime theory in time and space.

This book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to urban design, whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within its study and practice. It informs users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need the inspiration to move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32 urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities.

"Although cities occupy only 2 percent of the planet's surface, their inhabitants use 75 percent of its natural resources; by 2050, 70 percent of the global population will live in cities and towns. Sustainable urban development is crucial, therefore, for ensuring the quality of life of the world's people. Forests and trees in cities, if properly managed, can make important contributions to the planning, design and management of sustainable, resilient urban landscapes. They can help make cities more pleasant, attractive and healthy places in which to live, as well as safer, wealthier and more diverse. A few years ago, FAO initiated a collaborative process to develop voluntary guidelines aimed at optimizing the contributions of forests and trees to sustainable urban development. Scientists, practitioners and public administrators from cities worldwide were brought together to discuss the elements and key challenges of urban forestry, and a smaller team of experts was assembled to distil this vast knowledge. This document is the ultimate result of that process. Intended for a global audience comprising urban decision-makers, civil servants, policy advisors and other stakeholders, it will assist in the development of urban and peri-urban forests that help meet the present and future needs of cities for forest products and ecosystem services. These guidelines will also help increase community awareness of the contributions that forests and trees can make to improving quality of life, and of their essential role in global sustainability."--Publisher's description

The publication culture on Urban Agriculture (UA) is nearly exclusively inhabited by idealist and practitioner proponents. Foremost the economics (oftentimes influenced by Marxism) dare to critique the sustainability of the movement. In short, the people that start a UA project eventually require help from their city through recognition and policy support. The full breadth of intentions of these people are principally unknown, and this hinders policy design, in turn. Investigating these rationales (using Skot-Hansens Five Es (2005)) is the scope of this paper. It identifies a number of necessary policy changes, but ultimately pinpoints that it requires the involvement of activists, NGOs, and individual UA champions to raise awareness and to participate in policy design and implementation. It is found that, in one or the other way, most UA proponents motives can be traced back to a facet of community empowerment. Amongst the variety of rationales, especially the non-capitalist culture of UA is said to further its sustainability (not just in economic terms), because it brings forth a culture that embodies the said empowerment and shapes a democratic, inclusive sharing community. Hence, UA is identified as a strategy for urban cultural regeneration.

Urban agricultural projects have been mushrooming since the end of the twentieth century, reshaping urban landscapes and even the whole urban fabric, experimenting with alternatives to the traditional urban life, sometimes creating new commons, and bringing people together. Within a city, farmers, gardeners, and their neighbors share more than just fence lines. Cities already have a huge potential for farming. Three examples can be observed in very different cities around the World: Singapore, is fully self-reliant in meat, Bamako is self-sufficient in vegetables, and in Berlin there are 80,000 community gardens on communal land and 16,000 more people are on a waiting-list. And this is just the beginning; in many cities new unbuilt areas emerge in the wake of deindustrialization (derelict lands, wastelands, brownfields, etc.), or as a consequence of urban shrinking due to aging populations (as in Japan or Germany), or of emigration (as in some African mid-sized cities). These new areas are a wonderful opportunity for urban agriculture. In Detroit, thousands hectares of urban land have been given over to unemployed workers for food growing. In Britain, urban agriculture has been promoted on wastelands of 20 cities by their various councils. Urban agriculture is gradually becoming a planning policy option. In Delft, the planners of the city already combine urban agriculture with several other land uses in their planning documents; in Paris, an inclusive local land development plan protects agricultural landscapes. Urban agriculture is neither - or no more - the short-lived remnant of a rural culture nor the hipsters' latest futile craze.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject. It focuses on structural details and explains the elements that make cities such highly productive entities, and also explores explores the mechanisms of labour productivity enhancement that are unique to cities.Written with a focus on location theory, key topics include:How cities are arranged;Housing prices;Urban transportation;Why some cities grow rapidly whilst others decline;How wages adjust to local costs of living;How suburbs function in relationship to the urban core;Public finance.This book will be essential reading for Urban Economics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

"Urban Geography offers a comprehensive treatment of urban geography, fully exploring the origins and development of cities. It focuses on uncovering the excitement and richness found in cities, while tackling a wide variety of urban challenges. The text covers the Urban Geography field, both as it has evolved and as it exists today. Kaplan includes the most current research in urban studies, introducing elements of urban theory and methodology, and addresses the urban experience as a global one. Urban Geography presents key concepts in a straightforward structure, creating a user-friendly experience for all readers"--

This article will revisit Smith's seminal argument that gentrification is a global urban strategy. The article pays attention to the role of the state and displacement during the process of redevelopment. Through an in-depth study of a dilapidated neighborhood with concentrated migrant population in Shanghai, it is revealed that state control is behind the deterioration of the neighborhood prior to its redevelopment. Inadequate services and poor housing conditions are undeniable. Informal development has been quickly realigned by state dominance. The self-building neighborhood is eventually replaced by state-sanctioned development projects. The article echoes the debate over displacement in the West and suggests that recent urban redevelopment in China has gone beyond both the sporadic middle-class return to the city and residential changes backed up by state actions, revealing hegemonic power of the state over spatial production. Through urban redevelopment, the state attempts to regularize informal areas into new production spaces for its revenue maximization.

Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining the Urban -- Defining the Contours of an Alternative Field of Urban Political Studies -- Organization of the Book -- Notes -- 1: Where are the Global Urban Politics? -- Where are the Urban Politics? From Municipalism to a New Political Ontology -- Where are Politics? Urban Life is Political Life -- Where is the Global in Urban Politics? Uneven Connections and Power Relations -- Informalization of the State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2: Global Urban Social Movements -- What are Global Urban Social Movements? -- Why and How Do We Become Politically Engaged? Discordant Moments, Mobility Practices and Continuity with Everyday Life -- Emerging Forms of Urban Political Mobilization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: Global Diversity Politics -- Cities as 'Difference Machines': From Managing Diversity In Cities to Difference as Constitutive of Urbanity -- The Routes of Undocumented Immigrants, The Neighbour and the Identity Card -- The Smuggling Routes of Socio-Economic Crisis, Patriarchy and Urbanity -- Rethinking Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: Global Environmental Politics -- Local Environmental Conflicts: Engaging Various Conceptions of Time -- Global Environmental Politics: Articulating Metabolic Flows at Various Speeds and Scales -- A Changing Conception of Time Affecting the Political Process -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5: Global Urban Security Politics -- Urban Nightmares: Home Security and Alien Invasions -- Affective Micro-Politics and Re-emerging Forms of Political Action -- Conclusion -- Note -- Global Urban Politics and the Informalization of the State -- Critical Urban Studies: Pragmatism between Postcolonialism and Structuralism