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The Pursuit of Social Sustainability in Çiftlikköy.
- Source :
- Procedia Environmental Sciences; 2017, Vol. 37, p246-256, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- In the last decades, Çiftlikköy village in the northwest of Mersin city centrehasbeen under the threat of losing its rural lifestyle and natural landscape. Especially after the establishment of auniversity on a neighbouring valley, a dense residential area constructed and rural qualities of the village has been transformed into a different character. High-rise urban apartment blocks and low-density rural housing side-by-side marks social-physical contradictions and urban segregation in this selected case. In the paper, sustainability issues will be discussed in accordance to the well-being of inhabitants, inequality of rights between wide-ranging economic groups, existing and new users, settlement conditions and transformation from the rural to the urban community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SOCIAL sustainability
HOUSING discrimination
WELL-being
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18780296
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Procedia Environmental Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122118834
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2017.03.041