Turkish Urban Settlements in 1950-1960 (original) (raw)
Urbanization and squatters are interlaced terms. In this research it will be talked about the urbanization and modern cities that are developed after the industrial revolution. Modern cities and urbanization in the real sense emerged after the industrial transformation by triggering people to flock into urban areas from rural. But the point that needs to be noted here is that the concept of urbanization that has come to fruition due to the industrial revolution is only for western societies. Non-western societies have experienced the urbanization process differently and uniquely from western societies. As a non-western country Turkey, which constitutes the subject of research of this article, started to urbanize before it could complete the industrial cycle. The developing countries, which have not completed the industrial revolution, cannot meet the needs of the masses that flow from the rural areas to the cities, and as a consequence, the unplanned urbanization in these countries arises. This result comes from the fact that the opportunities for sheltering and the number of people seeking shelter do not increase at the same pace. Internal migrations have very decisive effects on the economy and socioculture. These changes stemming from domestic migrations bring their own demands such as more lands to settle down and more production to feed those such masses etc. The migrators seeking for a new solutions to those land problems in cities build dozens of hovels in the periphery of cities to settle down in urban areas. The immigration increasing primarily after the formation of modern Turkey and urbanization struggle has ended up in a big trouble: Squatters. Generally after the urbanization movements in one place proceeds with squatter settlements around outskirts of the cities.
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