The effects of COVID-19 on the agglomeration of high-tech knowledge-intensive business services: Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir

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  • Barış Ergen image/svg+xml Erciyes University

    Professor Barış ERGEN has been an academic staff member at Erciyes University, Architecture Faculty, Department of Urban and Regional Planning since 2017. He worked at Bozok University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning from 2005 to 2017. He graduated from Yıldız Technical University City Planning master program in 2006. The title of his master thesis is A Research on Relationship between Urban Conservation and Urban Design Case Study Tokat. He started his PhD education at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern in Germany. He completed his PhD study entitled “Buffer Zone Method, Land Use Planning and Conservation Strategies about Wetlands under Urbanization Pressure in Turkey” in 2010. His research interests are urban green areas planning, urban design, environmental planning, and urban sectoral development.

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https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2024.v5i3141

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COVID-19, High-Tech Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, sectorial agglomeration

Abstract

This study investigates the effect of COVID-19 on the concentration and agglomeration of jobs related to high-tech knowledge-intensive services (HKIS). The main objective of the study is to determine how COVID-19 measures have changed the HKIS agglomeration in three major metropolitan cities of Turkey—Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir. Data from 2019 were used as the pre-COVID-19 period, from 2020 as the COVID-19 period, and from 2021 as the post-COVID-19 period, and the agglomeration was calculated using the location quotient. Of the number of HKIS employees in Turkey, 71.65% worked in Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir in 2019, but during the COVID-19 period (2020) when the pandemic measures were implemented, the proportion increased to 79%. During the post-COVID-19 period (2021), the percentage of HKIS workers in Turkey was 78.68%. The observations suggest that the agglomeration of HKIS activities in these three cities continued to increase after the COVID-19 pandemic measures were implemented and removed.

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Ergen, B. (2024). The effects of COVID-19 on the agglomeration of high-tech knowledge-intensive business services: Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir. Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 5(3), 426–440. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2024.v5i3141

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