Browsing by Author "Kaya, Deniz Altay"

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Forced Migration and Resilience Planning: Turkey's Syrian Forced Migration Experience
(Middle East Technical Univ, 2021) Kaya, Deniz Altay; 05.03. Şehir ve Bölge Planlama; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
Today conditions leading to forced migration, where people are evacuated or have no other option but to leave their homes, are increasing due to the accelerating rates and impacts of ecological, political, economic or social crises. The intensifying forced migration flows have implications on a global scale. While the effects of forced migration processes intensify globally, international institutions and governments search for more efficient ways to cope with the rising multi-dimensional and multi-scalar challenges. Within this context of crises, the resilience approach aims to identify and strengthen the set of attributes, capabilities and capacities that provide urban/regional or social systems with the ability to cope with and be prepared for expected/unexpected shocks and stresses and adapt themselves to the changing conditions while self-improving. It also stresses the necessity of grounding plans, policies and actions upon these. This article claims that approaching the complex phenomenon of forced migration from a resilience perspective provides a multi-dimensional, multi-scalar, comprehensive undertaking, which supports developing long-lasting responses, grounded on universal humanist, ecological and democratic values, in introduced plans and policies. In this respect, the article discusses Turkey's experience of Syrian forced migration. The presented evaluation aims at developing a framework to be adopted in policy-making processes beyond the issue of forced migration.
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Integrating the Resilience Perspective Into the Turkish Planning System: Issues and Challenges
(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2019) Kaya, Deniz Altay; 54723; 05.03. Şehir ve Bölge Planlama; 05. Mimarlık Fakültesi; 01. Çankaya Üniversitesi
Within the last decade, resilience has become both a major planning framework and a development goal for cities and regions facing a plethora of problems in different fields and at different scales. This chapter aims to identify the challenges that await governments when they integrate a resilience thinking framework into their planning systems. The chapter first provides a short explanation on the significance of resilience planning and then outlines a structural model for incorporating the social, economic, political, and institutional requirements in resilience thinking in city and regional planning. Next, the chapter provides a short analysis of the Turkish planning system to reveal its inherent problems and the issues that are likely to be most challenging in a shift towards resilience planning. Finally, based on the provided analyses, the chapter provides a critical discussion on the challenges in operationalizing resilience planning in the Turkish context. The findings reveal that there is a need for restructuring especially in Turkey's institutional and legislative framework to improve coordination and cooperation, to assure the use of scientific knowledge within the decision-making processes, and to actualize the praxes of participation and engaged governance.