Causes of residential mobility and Turkey practice

Seda Özlü; Dilek Beyazli

doi:10.6092/1970-9870/7122

Seda Özlü KTÜ- Karadeniz Technical University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2568-7043
Dilek Beyazli Architecture/Urban and Regional Planning, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8182-5420

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/7122

Keywords: Residential mobility, Urban growth, Urban geography, Satisfaction, Trabzon / Ortahisar

Abstract

Residential mobility is an economic and social recovery process that determines urban growth and regional development. The urban population relocates due to the events in their lives or their dissatisfaction with the conditions. Such individual movements play a role in the construction of urban geography. The aim of the present study was to discuss the factors that affect the residential mobility in Ortahisar district in Trabzon, Turkey. To determine the mobility, a survey was conducted with 445 individuals in 11 neighborhoods with different socio-demographic, economic and physical attributes in Trabzon urban center. The survey findings were analyzed based on a) the analysis of the socio-demographic structure of households, b) evaluation of the residential buildings, c) the analysis of historical mobility, and d) the assessments of causality in mobility. In the study, the causal factors were analyzed based on the life cycle, life course and satisfaction approaches and mobility classification available in the literature, and the study findings were analyzed with descriptive statistics. It was determined that residential ownership, the structure of the household members, and proximity to the workplace factors were effective on residential mobility in Trabzon.

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Author Biographies

Seda Özlü, KTÜ- Karadeniz Technical University

She was awarded bachelor's and master's degrees in Urban and Regional Planning from the Karadeniz Technical University (Turkey). She completed her thesis titled "Rural Settlement Action Plan Creation Process: Trabzon / Salacik Village Experience" in 2014. The doctoral thesis (continuing) of the author, who started her doctorate education in the same department in 2014, is about the residential mobility. She is a research assistant in Urban and Regional Planning Department at KTU since 2012. Her research interests are focused participatory planning, rural area planning, development of urban geography, housing and residential mobility.

Dilek Beyazli, Architecture/Urban and Regional Planning, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon

Born in 1977 in Istanbul. She graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture in 1997. She completed his master's degree in 2000 and doctorate in 2005. In 2006, Dr. was appointed to the positions of Assistant Professor and in 2008 to Assistant Professors. She received the title of Associate Professor in 2012 and Professor in 2017. She continues her academic life in KTÜ Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning. She has completed a doctorate and 9 graduate studies under her consultancy and teaches undergraduate and graduate programs. She has urban design projects, architectural implementation projects, master plan experiences for public institutions and organizations. She has been appointed as Environmental Problems Application and Research Center, KTÜ Zero Waste Coordinator and KTÜ Master Plan Academic Coordinator, and is currently the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Head of the City and Regional Planning Department.

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