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Differentiated Urban Citizenship and Housing Rights: Analysing the Social Impacts of Urban Redevelopment in Globalizing Istanbul

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There is growing interest in the transformation of urban citizenship and the changing right to the city of the urban poor under neoliberal restructuring of cities in the Global South. This article examines a 'squatter settlement transformation project' in Istanbul that is intended to contribute towards the transformation of Istanbul into a global city. The transformation projects are based on private homeownership, incorporate the urban poor into a new 'property regime' and allocate them differentiated access to housing in the city. Using qualitative data, this article traces the unequal outcomes of the project for its displaced residents and demonstrates the emergence of 'differentiated urban citizenship'. This emergent urban citizenship regime in Turkish cities organizes the distribution of substantive housing rights based on social inequalities among the urban poor, and thus consolidates and perpetuates these inequalities in society.

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  • Ayca Zayim, 2014. "Differentiated Urban Citizenship and Housing Rights: Analysing the Social Impacts of Urban Redevelopment in Globalizing Istanbul," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3-4), pages 268-291, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3-4:p:268-291
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2014.913475
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