reclaiming spaces: urban transformations

Fatih PINAR is a fotojournalist from Istanbul and he is searching on the topic of neoliberal urban transformation in Istanbul.

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January 19th, 2009 | Tags: Documentation | Category: Istanbul |  Print This Post | Leave a comment

Original Article (French) : http://www.centrevillepourtous.asso.fr/article.php?id_article=2218

October 14, 2008

“Urban renovation or financial speculation” Residents and merchants are victims of the financial speculation and the inadequacies of the local authorities”

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January 14th, 2009 | Category: Marseille |  Print This Post | Leave a comment

http://marseille2008.no-vox.org/

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January 14th, 2009 | Category: Ressources, Marseille |  Print This Post | Leave a comment

If you had taken a early stroll down the Rue de la Republique in Marseille on Sunday morning the 22nd of November the first thing that would have struck you was that it appeared that nobody lived there. This might have been because of all the vacant shop and apartments, or alternatively due to the infamous icy Mistral wind blowing down from the North of the city and the ‘Port Autonome’ area which dares you to brave its Siberian wind chill factor. Further on a more surreal vista would have surprised even the most hardened activist. Across the wide boulevard stretched a line of black clad CRS special force police, blocking all car traffic and the recently opened tramway, jewel in the crown of Marseilles’ regeneration projects. In one of many cruel ironies in this irony of irony story what Hausmann had intended as a formal planning mechanism to forestall uprising, even popular revolution had been surpassed. Behind the ranks of Police a group of around 50 mainly young people were dancing, singing, shouting and generally goading the massed ranks of “guardian de la paix.”

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January 14th, 2009 | Tags: Lehman Brothers | Category: Marseille |  Print This Post | Leave a comment

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January 12th, 2009 | Category: Istanbul, News |  Print This Post | Leave a comment

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December 17th, 2008 | Tags: Shopping Mall, Vertreibung, Wohnprojekt | Category: Ruhr |  Print This Post | Leave a comment

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 Sulukule. Preservation of the historical building structures and the social and economic developement of the area are contents of this plan.

More informations about the plan under: http://www.alternatifsulukule.org/default_en.aspx

Massive protest and resistance against the demolition and eviciton of the inhabitants of Sulukule has formed. “Sulukule Platform” is a group of students, academic persons, journalists, urban researchers who are supporting the inhabitants and neighbourhood organisations to bring their concerns to light.

Turkish homepage of the Sulukule Platform: http://sulukulegunlugu.blogspot.com/

December 15th, 2008 | Tags: Demolition, Roma, struggle | Category: Istanbul |  Print This Post | Leave a comment