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The Resilient City Of The Future:
                                    Esenler Nar Innovation District

            the built environment, human mobility, changing socio-economic order, or various
            political orders. The ability for self-organization refers to the capacity of a system to
            organize itself without any influence or intervention from outside (Heylighen, 2002)
            and the preparation of an environment for change.  Transformability gains importance
            when  the  existing  economic,  socio-political  or  ecological  systems  cannot  renew
            themselves (Walker et al, 2006). Adaptation to new conditions is possible only with
            transformability, and it is possible to gain a relatively positive structure compared to
            the past through innovativeness. In the light of all these statements, a framework
            uniting internal dynamics (ecological, economic, social and spatial) provides a capacity
            to deal with threats and issues systematically.
               The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) developed
            policies  and  applications  that  will  increase  the  resiliency  of  cities  and  offers  a
            framework to deal with this issue. It discusses resiliency indicators under four main
            headings, namely, economy, society, governance, and environment. The indicators
            assess the resiliency of a city as follows:
               In terms of society, the resiliency of a city depends on the easy access of people to
            services provided by the city, the ability of people to have interactive communication
            with each other, population density, social balance and clean atmosphere. In terms
            of economy, it depends on the existence of various industries and business sectors in
            the city, a dynamic economy to sustain growth, and the ability to support innovative
            enterprises. In  terms of governance, it depends on the clear and transparent operation
            of the services provided, strategical and sustainable decisions made by decision makers
            and governors, and the extent to which individuals play an efficient role in decision
            support  mechanisms  through  a  pluralistic  democracy.  In  terms  of  atmosphere,  it
            depends on the level of green areas in the city, a low level of construction areas, the
            capacity to satisfy essential needs, the use of sustainable and innovative management
            of natural resources, the ability to make decisions of land use with consideration of
            ecosystem unity, and the clear and sustainable carbon emission goals (OECD, 2022).

               A new and innovative planning approach must identify the main threats to
            the urban system, determine the spatial and social vulnerabilities, how the
            threats affect these vulnerabilities, and the adaptation capacity of the region
            as well as critical thresholds. Additionally, political priorities must be identified.
            Istanbul, a city in Türkiye which is both important and vulnerable in terms of
            population,  economy,  and  natural  resources,  must  be  approached  with  an
            innovative planning approach. To this end, a local government aware of the
            vulnerabilities  of  the  city,  Esenler  Municipality  has  adopted  an  innovative
            planning and design strategy, and started a design initiative to create a new
            flexible and adaptive living area with a high level of resiliency. Murat Kurum,
            the Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, announced
            in his tweet dated Feb 11th, 2022 that Türkiye has been working vigorously



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