Successes and Failures in Urban Development of Ankara

Authors

  • Özge Yalçıner Ercoşkun

Keywords:

Ankara, Urban Planning, Car-Oriented policies, Transformation, Urban Sustainability

Abstract

Ankara, the capital of Turkey, represents a modern model city built in the Republican period after 1923. The majority of the countries’ population resides in this city after İstanbul and political, social and economic functions are mostly clustered in the urban zone. After 1940s, the city changed dramatically. Its population grew enormously and the city expanded through conversion of agricultural lands in the west. In addition, political and educational developments produced a significant population of officials and students within the city. This paper focuses on patterns of settlement in Ankara from ancient times to today and explains these from developments in the urban planning perspective. It concludes that the global shopping malls and local transport- landuse policies together with the structure of housing market have directed the city to car-oriented sprawled development without an identity, encouraged the development of gated communities in the city. It concludes by posing the question whether this may change in the future and more mixed use can be expected.

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Author Biography

Özge Yalçıner Ercoşkun

She is an associate professor in the City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. She graduated from the City and Regional Planning Department of the Istanbul Technical University in 1998. She completed her master’s studies in the Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies Department of the METU in 2002. She got her Ph.D. degree from the City and Regional Planning Department of the Gazi University in 2007. She has attended several national and international congresses; summer schools and workshops related to ecological urban planning and geographic information systems. She has written more than 50 papers on sustainable urban design and ecological and smart urban planning, geographic information systems and information technologies. She worked as a researcher in many national and institutional projects. She has awards about sustainability and urban growth, sustainable tourism.

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01-12-2013

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Ercoşkun, Özge Y. (2013). Successes and Failures in Urban Development of Ankara. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 1(2), 132–151. Retrieved from https://iconarp.ktun.edu.tr/index.php/iconarp/article/view/22

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