The evolving landscape of Istanbul's coffee shops: Navigating disruption in a changing urban environment

Vedia Dökmeci; Ayse Buket Önem; Kerem Yavuz Arslanlı

doi:10.47818/DRArch.2024.v5si150

The evolving landscape of Istanbul's coffee shops: Navigating disruption in a changing urban environment

Authors

Vedia Dökmeci Short Bio

Vedia Dökmeci graduated from ITU Faculty of Architecture as an Engineer Architect in June 1962. She received M.S. degree in 1969 (hospital planning) and Ph.D. degree in 1972 (An analytical planning approach to regional health facility systems) from “Columbia University, School of Architecture” (New York). She became associate professor (1979) and professor (1988) at ITU Faculty of Architecture. She conducted research in the summer semesters at “Harvard University-MIT Joint Center” (1976), “University College London” (1979) and “University California, Berkeley” (1980). She taught undergraduate and graduate courses on numerical methods in planning, "location theory" and "transformation of urban systems", and conducted master's and doctoral theses. Her research were supported by ITU, TUBITAK, SPO and the Ministry of Health and focused on mathematical modeling and applications of facility location selection, health facilities, city and regional planning, urban transformation and real estate development. She has published nine books and more than forty articles alone and with her students, in scientific journals within the scope of “HEAT”. She was awarded the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) Science Award *(1999). She initiated the first "Real Estate Development Program" at ITU (2001-) and served as its chairman (2001-2006).
Ayse Buket Önem Short Bio Istanbul Technical University

Ayşe Buket Önem is a PhD working at Istanbul Technical University Urban and Environmental Planning and Application Center in Turkey. In 2005, she earned her Ph.D. in urban and regional planning, focusing on urban identity and environmental perception. Currently, she focuses her research on urban planning processes to enhance urban resilience and climate change adaptation in cities, aiming to create more sustainable and livable urban environments for residents.
Kerem Yavuz Arslanlı Short Bio Istanbul Technical University

Urban and Regional Planning. He worked at University of Alicante Institute of International Economics in 2010 and Cass Business School Department of Finance in 2011. After completion of his PhD, he has started lectures on, “Real Estate Finance & Investment” and “Real Estate Modeling and Forecasting”, at İ.T.Ü. Real Estate Development Master Program. He has academic articles in international/national journals and several conference papers in international conferences. He has been a member of the board of directors of the European Real Estate Society (ERES) and President 2016-17, the leading real estate research and education organization in Europe (www.eres.org).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2024.v5si150

Keywords:

third places, globalization, spatial distribution, Istanbul, coffee shops

Abstract

During the final quarter of the last century, Istanbul experienced rapid population growth with increases in income, an expanded free trade economy, and the influence of greater globalization. Together, these stimulated an increase in the demands for new services. One of these demands was answered by an influx of coffee shop chains, and this effected both the growth patterns of traditional coffee houses and introduced a new lifestyle. Despite the closure of many businesses due to economic crises, coffee shops are increasing in number. This paper investigates the spatial distribution of coffee shops with respect to the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of several selected districts by using regression analysis. The number of coffee shops is taken as the dependent variable and the social life index and the proportion of the population aged over 65 are used as independent variables. These were chosen through an evaluation of several characteristics of the districts under discussion. According to the results, the location of coffee shops in Istanbul is affected more by a district’s social life index and by the proportion of its population which is aged over 65 than the other characteristics of the districts. The impact of the multi-center development on the distribution of coffee shops is explained. the balanced distribution of coffee shops with respect to other small businesses is suggested for further research.

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Dökmeci, V., Önem, A. B., & Arslanlı, K. Y. (2024). The evolving landscape of Istanbul’s coffee shops: Navigating disruption in a changing urban environment. Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 5((Special Issue), 65–74. https://doi.org/10.47818/DRArch.2024.v5si150