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Capital Accumulation as a Tool for Urban Rent in Turkey

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Hazal Ilgın Bahçeci

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2016.02.004

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Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

ABSTRACT

Within the framework of capitalist relations of production and distribution of scarce and precious land resource, production is important in terms of both use and exchange value. Rent, is a product of the creation of surplus value by the investment decisions of the public and private sectors. Market mechanisms and development rights are formed within the framework of capitalist relations of production and the location of urban development in urban spaces and are named of “urban rent”. Especially with the process called globalization, urban rent is a vehicle from a position of significant capital accumulation. This is one of the reasons that Turkey’s urbanization is considered an unhealthy process as a whole. The urban renewal project started to be implemented rapidly after 1980, in what way urban “transform” stands before us as the most controversial issue in this area. The aim of this study is to examine the case of urban rent in the process of Turkey’s urbanization and to reveal the negative impact of this on the relationship between democracy and the city. In this context, the history of Turkey’s urbanization and related legislation will only be considered for clarification.

KEYWORDS

urban, urban rent, capitalism, urbanization of Turkey, urban democracy

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, February 2016, Vol. 13, No. 2, 122-135

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