Current urban discourse: Urban transformation and gentrification in Istanbul

Architectural Design

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-63

  Islam, Tolga ^a  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 77949499819     PISSN: 00038504     EISSN: 15542769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1011     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. For the economic growth rates and foreign trade volume figures see www.turkstat.gov.tr; and for the foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Turkey and Istanbul see www.treasury.gov.tr, and the reports of FDI in Turkey for 2007 and 2006 at www.treasury.gov.tr.
2. Jones Lang LaSalle, Turkey Retail Market Overview, April 2009.
3. Based on the actual increases in the gated developments in Gökturk, a region that is characterised by such communities, Bartu Candan and Biray Kolluoǧlu KIrlI speculate that the number of gated compounds in the city may have doubled since 2005. See 'Emerging spaces of neoliberalism: A gated town and a public housing project in Istanbul', New Perspectives on Turkey, No 39, 2008, pp 5-46.