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Author(s)
Isikkaya Ali Devrim
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.03.006
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Faculty of Architecture and Design, Bahcesehir University Istanbul, Istanbul 34353, Turkey
ABSTRACT
With the mission of absorption of the capital through urban renovation, AKP (the Justice and
Welfare Party) took over the metropolitan municipality administrations in big
cities in 1995, and the Government of the Republic of Turkey in 2002. Together
with the 2003 Mass Housing Act, 14 legal
regulations were enacted between 2002 and 2008 to expand the field of activity
and increase the funds of TOKI (Governmental Mass Housing Administration) which
was already established during ANAP (the Motherland Party) Government in 1980s.
As a result of those regulations, TOKI, as the “latest goddess of the
construction myth”, became the only
authorized organization in the field of housing and land production in AKP’s
cities. It acquired new duties
from generating profit-oriented projects to protecting historical texture, and
it was authorized to make and approve zoning plans for the lands and plots
handed over to TOKI of the last government (the Justice and Welfare Party)
created as an investor-entrepreneur-contractor-performer group. This paper’s aim is
to indicate the transformation of TOKI foundation during the last twenty years, and also to prove
that TOKI, as a governmental profit-oriented design tool, has demolished the
unique DNA/morphological textures of the contemporary Turkish big cities by
producing low profiled similar architecture
and urbanity in the recent past.
KEYWORDS
Governmental urban interventions, urban identity, Mass Housing Administration, social housing.
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