High risks imposed by natural hazards, and changes in economic, socio-cultural and
technological conditions compel Turkey to transform its cities rather than promote growth. In
this respect, urban regeneration became a significant concern demanding a comprehensive
and integrated vision and action.
Turkey will have to focus on regenerating the built environment in the near feature, rather
than follow conventional trends of city-extension development. As scope and methods of
urban regeneration planning differ from that of development-planning, a special legal
framework and process for urban regeneration is required. The development of
comprehensive urban regeneration policies to coordinate physical, social and environmental
issues, together with relevant procedural steps, all accommodated within a legal framework
are today the most challenging problem in urban planning.
To identify the needs in detail, procedural and legal aspects of Zeytinburnu Urban
Regeneration Project one of the current urban regeneration projects, related laws and draft
laws, and experience abroad are comparatively reviewed here. The main finding is that the
procedural steps and legal arrangements of recent regulations represent single-minded
understandings of the scope of urban regeneration. There are tendencies of centralizing the
powers of implementation, relying only on physical regeneration as a linear process,
discouraging all forms of participation. The recent regulatory attempts in special laws
concerning regeneration, as well as in laws of & / #8216 / development& / #8217 / , & / #8216 / local administrations& / #8217 / and
& / #8216 / municipalities& / #8217 / need to be modified in their procedural and legal provisions.
Local authorities can be charged to designate regeneration areas at 1/5000 city master plans
which could be coordinated by changing an article within Development Law (3194). Tasks
and responsibilities for comprehensive regeneration could be provided with the Law of
Municipalities (5272), and the Law of Provincial Administration (5302). These laws could also
equip local authorities with prerogatives of implementing regeneration projects.
A second procedural requirement concerns the preparation of plans. This demands steps for
participatory interventions as well as a versatile structure to allow feedback and returns to
former stages of planning. This could be introduced by means of a regulation regarding
preparation of regeneration projects. This resembles the regulation on technical
specifications for the preparation of development plans of Law 3194. This can enforce the
participation of local citizens and stakeholders to the process. Changing the article 13 of the
Municipality Law would suffice for the realization of participation processes. The article (24n)
of the Greatercity Municipalities Law that enable partnerships between public, private bodies
and NGOs can be further introduced to the Municipality Law for the very necessary
synergies in regeneration projects.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607020/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2005 |
| Creators | Cicek, Huseyin |
| Contributors | Balamir, Murat |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.C.P. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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