social movements facing neo-liberal urban transformations
Strolling through the streets of Tuzla, we pass by shops and street sellers selling blue overalls, gloves and security helmets, workshops producing larger or smaller ship parts, the manifold supplier industry, workers gathered around a minibus serving as a mobile teahouse during breaks, men smoking, smoking and working for the subcontractor, the ‘taşeron’. Life south [...]
Fatih PINAR is a fotojournalist from Istanbul and he is searching on the topic of neoliberal urban transformation in Istanbul.
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Sulukule is on of the oldes roma-neigbourhood in the world, which is demolished through a neoliberal urban renewal project. Hunderts of people have lost their homes and they should move toTaşoluk, which is 40km far away from the city center.
An interdiscplinary team called STOP, No Frontiers Autonomous Planners, worked on an alternative development plan for [...]
The project INSTANBULMAP in 2007 produced a map of central Istanbul showing many of the points of violant urban transformations against the heritage and the inhabitants. You can download the PDF-file (heavy!) at http://www.istanbulmap.org/?q=node/53