Strategies relating to Growth and Slums, Housing Issues and Cost of Living in Mamak - Turkey | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Environmental Change | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 October 2022 | ||
| Document Type: Peer-reviewed articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejec.2022.166679.1013 | ||
| Author | ||
| Fatima Ahmad Alghamdi* | ||
| Geography department, Umm AlQura university, Makkah, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper was an analysis on the District of Mamak in Ankara, Turkey. Individual analyses were done on Growth and Slums, Housing and Cost of Living in the Mamak District. The holistic analysis on these three topics provided an insight in which the influx of immigrants from the rural agricultural sectors to the urban city centres and set up their make-do shelters on public and private land known in Turkey as the gecekondus. The renewal or regeneration of land that the gecekondus occupied provided a source of income to the municipality who then had an interest to accelerate the process of developments and offered incentives to developers. The developments led to an increase in the Housing stocks as well as provided a variety in the houses being built to cater for the middle as well as the upper middle class. With the provision of housing for the middle and upper middle class this led to commercial developments as the higher classes in society had disposal income. This lead to an increase in the cost of living as housing was a factor that could be measured in the cost of living. Also, there were no statistics reported on this topic in the District of Mamak, the statistics refer to Turkey as a whole. Hence in the topic of Growth and Slums growth was viewed as economic growth to Mamak but also can include the growth in population and the consequences it had on Housing and the Cost of living. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Growth; Slums; housing issues | ||
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