Evaluating Urban Development Projects

Savvas’ Presentation:

This talk and paper look at the impacts of structural adjustment programmes on Istanbul’s formal and informal housing sector and the politics of welfare around gecekondus.

Lecture Notes

Slides

Working Paper: Structural Adjustment & Urban Development in Istanbul

Bibliography

Bibliography of several City Profiles published in the Cities journal. Please note that the information bases in some of the older articles may have to be updated using resources in the DataBank.

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Leonard, John B. 2000. City profile: Lima. Cities 17, no. 6 (December): 433-445.

Madanipour, Ali. 1999. City profile: Tehran. Cities 16, no. 1 (February): 57-65.

Niemczyk, Maria. 1998. City Profile — Warsaw (Warszawa). Cities 15, no. 4 (August): 301-311.

Prytherch, David L., and Josep Vicent Boira Maiques. City profile: Valencia.

Romaya, Sam, and Alison Brown. 1999. City profile: Maseru, Lesotho. Cities 16, no. 2 (April): 123-133. 

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  • Subnational IFC funding for the Istanbul Kadikoy-Kartal Metro Project
  • Report summarising the developmental challenges facing Istanbul due to the huge growth in low-skilled migrant workers over the recent years fuelled by the largest metro-national income disparities amongst OECD countries.