Workers’ settlements revistied: the origins and interpretations in Early Republican Turkey
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2019
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Özet
In the face of urban and social problems brought about by the industrialization, the 19 th century has witnessed various effortsin both housing and urban space; and beginning from the late 18 th century, but more in the 19 th century, the first workers’ settlementshave emerged in Western Europe as a response to these problems. In particular, the workers’ settlements such as factory-towns andcompany-towns built in the suburbs, have created a special solution not only to meet the housing needs of the workers, but also toprovide the labour supply; furthermore, along with the conditions of the settlements and production, they were assigned to change thesocial structure and to create a new industrial society.In Turkey, however, the industrialization has begun nearly a century later than the European countries; and it was carried outwithin the framework of the modernization project adopted by the Republican ideology. By rapid industrialization and modernizationprocess during the first half of the 20 th century in Turkey, the workers’ settlements of the Western cultures, as in many other realms,have been considered as the representations of the modernity, and have been reinterpreted and built on the basis of political, social andcultural circumstances of the country. In early Republican Turkey, the reinterpretation of workers’ settlements was used as animportant tool for the transformation of the society by means of reshaping the housing culture, as well as the relations of productionand spatial practices. And these settlements have constituted the embodiment of the modern industrialized society, in the urban space.In this sense, the aim of the article is to re-evaluate the emergence of the workers’ settlements in the context of socialbackground; and to discuss their roles in the architectural and urban modernization, as well as in social and cultural modernization ofTurkey. Beginning with the problems brought about by industrialization in 19 th century Europe, the emergence of workers’ settlementsas a social phenomenon are discussed and exemplified. Subsequently, the early models of the workers’ settlements in Turkey arediscussed both in the context of their predecessors in Europe and of the social background of the period. Hereby, it is expected to evokefurther discussions on the cross-section of architectural, urban, and social transformations and to deepen the studies on the history ofthe early Republican architecture.
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company/factory-towns, Early Republican Turkey, Industrialization, modernization, workers’ settlements, working class housing
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Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi
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12
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62
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Özgüven, Y. ve Cantürk, Em. (2019). Workers’ settlements revistied: the origins and interpretations in Early Republican Turkey. Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi. 12(62), s. 624-637.
