Presented at GloNet (Globally Networked Event) - 13 May 2010 - http://www.futureeverything.org/festival2010/glonet2010 (See presentation text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34175653/Ozgur-Uckan-Disadvantaged%C2%A0communities-and%C2%A0networked%C2%A0civic-participation-Missing-link-in-the-urban-growth-problems#)

1. Disadvantaged communities
and networked civic participation: Dr. Özgür Uçkan
Missing link in the urban growth problems
GloNet
13 May 2010

3. Introduction
• Urban growth dynamics
• “Global Network Capitalism”
• Economy-politics of networks
• Global network capitalism and urban
topology

5. Dark side of the urban growth
• Agglomeration effect
• Land use, land value
patterns and the
morphology of the
urban grid
• Rent-based processes
• Gentrification
projects as an urban
land production tool

6. Dark side of the urban growth
• Urban poverty,
unemployment and
social exclusion
• Capacity deficiencies
in urban services
• Slums and neglected
city-centre zones
• Commercialization
of public space

7. Dark side of the urban growth
• Exploding cities:
Leviathans
• Istanbul: A huge,
carcinogen sprawl
• Rural Exodus
• Environmental issues:
Urban footprints
beyond city limits
• Potential societal
collapse

8. Istanbul slums
• Gecekondus (‘setup over night’)
• 66% of Turkey’s population live
in urban settings and 18% of
those live in slums.
• Quest for jobs
• Child labor
• Unemployment
• Inefficient education system
• Unfair access to the basic urban
services
• Ethnic enclaves

9. Urban growth problems and
disadvantaged communities
• The missing link
• The disadvantaged
communities: the
most affected segment
• No means of
participation to the
urban governance
• No sustainable
solution without them

10. Sustaining communities and
local democratic governance
• Social cohesion
• Functional
economy
• Robust
environment
• Sound
infrastructure

11. A NEW DIRECTION FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT -A POSITION PAPER,The Department of Local Government (Sydney), Oct. 2006

12. Human right city
“Imagine living in a society where
all citizens have made a pledge to
overcome fear and impoverishment,
to build a society that provides
human security, access to food,
clean water, housing, education,
healthcare and work at livable
wages, and to share available
resources with all citizens—not as
a gift, but as a realization of human
rights. That is what Human Rights
Cities do by providing an energetic
space that demonstrates that living
in such a society is possible!”
Shulamith Koenig

13. Networked urban governance
• Urban governance
becomes networked
• Horizontal
coordination
• Social benefit
coefficient
• Decentralized,
multilayered,
participatory, shared
network governance

14. Networked urban uprising
• Network is sharing
• “Temporary
Autonomous Zones”
• Resistance to the
capitalist
organization of
urban network is
rising both on the
streets and on the
networks.

15. Sulukule
community
http://www.alternatifsulukule.org/
http://sulukulegunlugu.blogspot.com/

16. Umraniye community
Cinardibi
Cultural Center
http://www.cinardibidergisi.com/

17. Istanbul gay and
lesbian community
http://www.kaosgl.com/

18. Urbanism
Movement for
Society (IMECE)
http://www.toplumunsehircilikhareketi.org/

19. Housing Right
Coordination
http://konuthakki.com/

20. Urban Ecology
Movements
http://www.yesiller.org/
http://yesilgazete.org/

21. Citizen journalism
and indie media
http://bianet.org/

22. Community power on networks
“Our circles of interaction and mutual
obligation cannot be limited to our
campsites, immediate neighborhoods,
cities, nationstates, or even networks
of international trading partners; they
are truly and inescapably global. Just
as a city is not simply a sprawling
village, the networked Planet of Fires
is not a global village. Nor is it a
virtual city or an extended nation-
state. Physically, spatially, and
morally it is a thing of a new kind—
differing as profoundly from the civic
arrangements we have known as
Gesellschaft (Society) does from
Gemeinschaft. (Community)” -
William Mitchell

23. thank you
Dr. Özgür Uçkan