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The study was carried out in order to reveal how migration is discussed in the urban design literature and in which contexts it is addressed. Migration is a concept that significantly affects space and social life in today's cities. This population movement, which started to increase in the second half of the last century, has accelerated even more in this century and has become observed on a global scale. According to the International Organization for Migration's World Migration Report 2020 (World Migration Report 2020 (Turkish): Chapter 2, no date), the number of international migrants has reached approximately 272 million people, 3.5 percent of the world population. Increasing migration trends cause different problems for different social groups. The issue of migration has therefore become even more critical for a significant number of people groups. This effect leads to significant changes in administrative, legal, social, spatial, economic, cultural and political fields at the national level for both receiving and sending countries.
The impact of migration on the city and its relationality with the city are generally addressed through policies in the literature. However, studies focusing on the effects of migration at regional and urban scales are the majority. Urban design, on the other hand, is among the subjects that are addressed in a limited way in the field of migration. It is a fact that urban design decisions can positively or negatively affect the lives of migrants, reinforcing and furthering social divisions as well as overcoming them. Therefore, it is obvious that the situation of migrants and migration impacts should be taken into account in design processes (Tuohy and Talen, 2017). This study, which is carried out with the bibliometric analysis method, focuses on understanding on which topics this limited production is realised. Thus, how the literature on the relationship between migration and urban design has been shaped has been revealed and literature gaps in important topics have been identified.
In this study, how the phenomenon of migration is handled in the field of urbanism and urban design in particular is analysed through conceptual relationships. Bibliometric analysis method was used to analyse the research topics on migration in urbanism and urban design. The bibliometric analysis method enables the evaluation of publications by individuals or institutions within a specific field, time period, and region, as well as their interrelationships. Scopus, ULAKBIM TR Dizin and DergiPark databases were used as the data set for the research. In this way, it has been revealed how migration-city planning and migration-urban design debates are shaped both in the world and in Turkey. As a result of the analysis, it has been observed that the concept of migration is mostly addressed in the literature with issues such as 'housing', 'urbanization', 'gentrification', 'social sustainability', 'accessibility', 'gated communities', 'segregation in settlements'. However, it is also associated with the concept of 'integration', albeit with a low frequency. In Turkey, on the other hand, it is seen that the concept of migration is addressed with more limited topics in the context of urban design. It has been seen that it has been handled in relation to issues such as 'urban transformation' and ‘slumism’, which are generally related to housing. In addition, studies on 'adaptation' and 'cultural adaptation' are quite limited. In this sense, it has been observed that the issue of migration has not been sufficiently addressed in urban planning and urban design in Turkey, which is both an immigration-receiving and an immigration-giving country. One of the expected effects is that the results can be a guide for studies focusing on the relationship between migration and urban design.
References
Tuohy, B. and Talen, E. (2017) 'Urban design in a new age of immigration,' City and Community, 16(4), pp. 374–379. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12268.
World Migration Report 2020 (Turkish): Chapter 2 (no date). https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2020-turkish-chapter-2.
| Keywords | Migration; Urban design; Urban planning |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
