Determining the Scale to Ensure Locality and a Sense of Belonging in the Housing Redevelopment Process: Bursa Hürriyet Neighborhood Field Study

Sibel Ersoy (), Nilüfer Taş and Murat Taş
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Sibel Ersoy: Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Bursa Uludag University, Görükle Campus, 16059 Bursa, Türkiye
Nilüfer Taş: Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Bursa Uludag University, Görükle Campus, 16059 Bursa, Türkiye
Murat Taş: Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Bursa Uludag University, Görükle Campus, 16059 Bursa, Türkiye

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-28

Abstract: Regarding housing redevelopment in Türkiye, the unplanned scale increase is one of the most critical problems facing the cities that have grown due to immigration. One of the most critical problems in housing redevelopment is the inability to ensure locality and retain the current inhabitants. Due to the fact that the issues of locality and ensuring a sense of belonging are ignored in most cases, the housing units usually lack local architectural identity, resemble each other, and do not meet socio-cultural needs. The purpose of this study is to identify locally specific, value-driven results to ensure the continuity of the existing users in the event of housing redevelopment by conducting a field study in the Bursa Hürriyet Neighborhood, which had been formed under the influence of immigration and where the users have adapted over time and preserved their socio-cultural living habits. As a method, a questionnaire was distributed to the users, a list of questions generated with the Delphi technique was posed to the experts, and then both were analyzed. By ensuring the correct reading of local information, suggestions are presented in order to identify the appropriate scale for both users and the city with the “glocal approach” in cities developing under global influences.

Keywords: scale; housing redevelopment; neighborhood; locality; glocalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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