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PERCEPTION AND EXPECTATIONS

OF URBAN REGENERATION IN İSTANBUL

Seda KUNDAK

ABSTRACT
With the Law No. 6306 on the Transformation of Areas under Disaster Risk
enacted in 2012, transformation practices, which were previously focused on
renovation and sanitization, were defined with a different focus. The 1999
earthquakes, the subsequent earthquakes in Bingöl in 2003 and Van in 2011, and
disasters such as large-scale destructive floods and landslides have increased
awareness on risk mitigation. The implementation of administrative decisions
and legal instruments to support these studies after 1999 have become open
to discussions on the understanding and adoption of the stages and effects
of the process in the community level. Due to the fact that risk communication
has not been provided properly in some cases, it has either been perceived
as a threat by individuals living in places where rapid risk mitigation against
disasters should be carried out, or it has increased expectations too much.
This article discusses the findings by evaluating the questions related to urban
transformation and risks in the questionnaires applied in the risk perception
studies conducted in İstanbul in 2013 and 2019 and after the 2019 Silivri
earthquake.

Keywords: Urban Regeneration, Earthquake, Risk Perception, İstanbul

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