Dynamics of population mobility in Istanbul metropolitan area

Turkish

The aim of this study is to determine how physical expansion and urban redevelopment affect the population distribution and population mobility in the metropolitan area of Istanbul.In the study, the spatial change of the population at the district and neighbourhood level in the 2013-2017 period was examined.In the first stage, the population change, macro-form developments, housing production in the 2000-2017 period were examined and the magnitude of the spatial change was revealed.And in the second stage, the spatial distribution of population mobility in the city was examined.The study covers 39 districts in the metropolitan area of Istanbul.In order to determine the urban change, the built environment in the metropolitan area of 2000, 2007, 2012, and 2017 were compared and for this purpose, the CORINE database, Google, and Yandex maps were used.The population data of the same period were obtained from the general population census and address-based population registration system database for the neighbourhood and district levels.Population mobility between districts was obtained from the TurkStat intra-and inter-provincial migration database.In addition, one of the most important indicators explaining population mobility and spatial concentration in the metropolitan area is building occupancy permits on a district basis, and these data were obtained from the TURKSTAT Construction Statistics database.Some of the variables were obtained from previous studies on Istanbul."Stratified regression analysis" was used in the study.When the net migration data of the districts of Istanbul received from both other provinces and other districts of Istanbul are evaluated; districts that receive immigration from both other provinces and other districts of Istanbul (Region-I) are Esenyurt, Sancaktepe, Arnavutköy, Tuzla, Çekmeköy, Beylikdüzü, Büyükçekmece, Silivri, Şile, Çatalca, Maltepe, and Başakşehir districts.The districts that give population to other provinces but receive immigration from other districts of Istanbul (Region-II) are Eyüpsultan, Kartal, and Pendik districts.Avcılar, Bağcılar, Bahçelievler, Bakırköy, Bayrampaşa, Beykoz, Beyoğlu, Esenler, Fatih, Gaziosmanpaşa, Güngören, Kadıköy, Kağıthane, Küçükçekmece, Sultangazi, Ümraniye and Zeytinburnu (Region-III) are the districts that give population to other provinces and Istanbul's other districts.Finally, districts that receive immigration from other provinces but immigrate to other districts of Istanbul (Region-IV) are Şişli, Beşiktaş, Üsküdar, Sarıyer, Ataşehir and Sultanbeyli districts.In the 2013-2017 period, 1.4 million people moved out to other addresses within Istanbul.The population movement is bidirectional, from centre to periphery and vice versa.Another dimension of the population mobility in Istanbul is the locational preferences of for-