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Id		646
Author		Ozden P.
Title		Culture-led regeneration projects in post-industrial areas: The Istanbul experience
Reference		Ozden P.; Culture-led regeneration projects in post-industrial areas: The Istanbul experience ;WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment vol:155 issue: page:823.0
Link to article		https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84865707459&doi=10.2495%2fSC120692&partnerID=40&md5=cbebba05c833d3daee737b2048a58e13
Abstract		Culture-led regeneration has become one of the most important activities of todays governments and also the private sector. During the 20th century, traditional manufacturing activities were left behind and as a result of this, deindustrialization processes affected all cities. Especially inner neighborhoods and traditional city centers began to lose their identity very rapidly. This process caused the decrease of post-industrial urban areas. These large abandoned areas affected the city in a negative way; bringing economic burden and causing some environmental and urban problems, like urban safety issues, unhealthy urban image, etc. While urban governments and the private sector have recognized these areas as an opportunity for urban regeneration, culture-led regeneration has emerged as an effective method to regenerate the post-industrial abandoned areas. This type of regeneration would enable these areas and also the cities to gain a new image. Looking at the economic aspect, experiences have shown that, culture-led regeneration practices have added economic value to the city as well as spatial and social value. This paper aims to analyse post-industrial areas from the point of a culture-led regeneration perspective. In the scope of the study, post-industrial areas of Istanbul metropolitan city will be discussed from a culture-led regeneration perspective. By looking to new experiences some suggestions will be made in this respect. © 2012 WIT Press.

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This type of regeneration would enable these areas and also the cities to gain a new image. .
This allows the identification of more appropriate actions for the regeneration of buildings and urban spaces to be taken. .
Indeed, culture, as an integrated and driving component, can make a difference in the processes of urban regeneration: renewing the image of the city and its neighbourhoods, fostering pride and a sense of belonging amongst its residents, attracting investment and tourism, improving the quality of life and social cohesion, enabling new job opportunities in the cultural and creative sectors, etc. .
1. The relationship between these categories of domains, dimensions, and criteria valorizes anthropic and natural resources as a foundation for the participatory and culture-led regeneration of local public spaces and improves an exante evaluation framework for future practices. .
The key idea involves the development of professionalism in the field of activities related to the management and enhancement of cultural heritage. .
These professional skills are oriented towards future generations in order to promote knowledge of history and place identity. .
The direct participation in the process and the active involvement of the users allow producing new interests and stimulating new energies: new bonds are formed between the different decision-making actors, who recognize in collaboration and cooperation the concrete opportunity to improve their own wellbeing and that of community. .
Reading these experiences highlights how culture can be a driver of development and enhancement based on local resources and identity and, on the other hand, based on participatory resources, such as communication technologies and innovative forms of cooperation among people and creative experts. .
This is because it can insert new types of creative economy and welfare linked to the proximity for local-embedded development. .
The positive externalities deriving from the bottom-up processes of valorization contribute to the regeneration of spaces and buildings, simultaneously producing employment and increasing the network of relationships in the local community. .
In addition, they highlight how activating projects of cultural and social innovation can generate new economic value in built heritage, promoting both economic development and urban regeneration..
Looking at the economic aspect, experiences have shown that, culture-led regeneration practices have added economic value to the city as well as spatial and social value. .
While urban governments and the private sector have recognized these areas as an opportunity for urban regeneration, culture-led regeneration has emerged as an effective method to regenerate the post-industrial abandoned areas. .
It stimulates the growth of many sectors, as evidenced by research reports produced by several governmental agencies, which had important effects on development models and the economy in general. .
It is not only able to activate different communities (foreign residents and young people), but it also able to reuse properties and enhance the incentives for culture. .
The practices analysed here point to the possibility of enhancing the public real estate assets and responding to a crucial challenge for both the historic centres and the suburbs. .
The synergistic effect of culture-led regeneration depends, therefore, on how the process is able to create a shared and inclusive social representation, in which the various local communities can learn to expand their ability to interact, creating and sharing information and ideas to cooperate and compete together. .
As such, culture-led urban regeneration is investigated as a driver of complex values networks tailor-made for a specific local context. .
Creative capital is able to optimize local cultural resources for rebuilding relationships among communities, values, and public spaces (Forester, 1997; Scott, 2000; Fusco Girard, 2010; Sassen, 2011; Bertacchini et al., 2012; CHCfE, 2015) in a productive way, thereby enhancing culture-led urban regeneration processes that are locally-embedded. .
By attempting to respond to the research questions that have been highlighted in the introduction, and by starting from the local cultural values and the changing uses of urban spaces, this study explores if creative practices are able to: 1. Optimize tangible/intangible cultural resources for local sustainable development; 2. Generate values and enhance the engagement of communities through new sustainable uses; 3. Build capillary complex networks among people, values, and spaces. .
Indeed, it is common that the practices dissipate the efforts and thus weaken the outputs and jeopardize the opportunities of being engaged in wider cultural, social, and economic arenas. .

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