Işık, Oğuz;
(1992)
The penetration of capitalism into housing production: Speculative housebuilding in Turkey, 1950-1980.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
The thesis aims to contribute to our understanding of capitalist development through a study on the evolution of speculative housebuilding in Turkey during the 1950-1980 period. It seeks to combine the literature on uneven capitalist development with the one on the production of the built environment. It is argued that the concepts of mode of production and labour process serve as a bridge between these two bodies of literature and enable one to formulate a multi-faceted approach to the study of housing. In that part of the thesis devoted to the analysis of speculative housebuilding in a timeless perspective, an attempt is made at reconstructing it as a form of production into which capitalist relations have only partially penetrated. Another theme running throughout the thesis is the study of speculative housebuilding in an historical perspective to account for its emergence, evolution over time and final collapse in 1980. The concepts of import-substituting industrialisation and populism are introduced as the ones delineating the wider economic and political environment in which speculative housebuilding has operated. An attempt is made to explain the three decades of capitalist development in Turkey with the aid of these concepts and the role of housing and land markets in this context. It is argued that the consensus generated by speculative housebuilding among various groups in the urban setting has been one of the most important pillars of the broad-based coalition characterising import substitution and populism in the 1960s and 1970s. These dynamics are further explored as they unfold in the particular case of Ankara.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | The penetration of capitalism into housing production: Speculative housebuilding in Turkey, 1950-1980 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Thesis digitised by ProQuest. |
| Keywords: | Social sciences; Capitalist development; Turkey |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121826 |
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