URBANIZATION FROM GEZI TO EARTHQUAKE I #GEZİKÜTÜPHANE
The controversy between democracy and populist authoritarianism easily translates into a myriad of controversies about urban spaces, development plans and construction practices. The spirit of solidarity, which brought together the Gezi activists to defend an urban park in Istanbul against the Erdoğan government’s re-development plans, was the same spirit of solidarity that came to the rescue of the victims of Erdoğan’s populist, authoritarian urbanization policies after the recent earthquake. This panel addresses the question of democratization from the perspective of urbanization.
