Urban transformation With the recent speeding of economy and real estate investments in Turkey, and especially in Istanbul, recent years faced the birth of a new trend: Urban transformation. Supported by the ‘’Disaster risk law’’ aiming to create earthquake proof buildings, these urban operations quickly showed their dark side: Wild gentrification. Examples such as the recent case of Sulukule in Istanbul, and many others, demonstrated how the current operational mode strains to expulse lower classes to the edges of the cities, and replacing them by soul less neighborhoods for upper middle classes. One doesn’t need to be a prophet to foresee the future social tensions that will result of this way of envisioning architecture and urban planning especially with the application of models such as high rise social housings or upper class gated communities.
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