Datta, A (2014) Gendered nature and urban culture: The dialectics of gated developments in Izmir, Turkey. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 (4). 1363 - 1383. ISSN 0309-1317
Abstract
This article adds to recent debates on the emergence of new forms of private gated developments in Turkey that specifically target the upper middle classes. In particular, it focuses on the rise of residential gated developments along the Izmir-Ceşme expressway to highlight how the dialectics between gender, nature and culture are reinforced in these places. The article, based on a case study of three gated developments in this region, suggests that their production is made possible through a series of dualisms between nature and culture, mobility and fixity, urban public life and gendered domesticity, urban modernity and rural parochialism, polluted city and healthy town. Based on interviews with architects, developers and residents, as well as local-authority officials in Urla town who sanction these developments, this article argues that contradictions between different sets of dualisms form a central aspect of the processes through which these developments were designed, produced, marketed and inhabited. Taken collectively, these contradictions point broadly to the limits of gated communities in creating stable, adaptable and sustainable patterns of development in Turkey and the global South.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013, Urban Research Publications Limited. This is the accepted version of the following article: Datta, A (2014) Gendered nature and urban culture: The dialectics of gated developments in Izmir, Turkey. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 (4). 1363-1383. ISSN 0309-1317 which has been published in final form at DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12081 |
Keywords: | Gated developments; gender; Turkey; nature/culture; urban life; class motility |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2015 14:41 |
Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2015 16:10 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12081 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1468-2427.12081 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83077 |