Cities in Turkey are great risk pools. Underqualified building stocks are the major
components of such risk pools. For the mitigation of risks, ' / engineering approach offers
retrofitting of individual buildings as an ultimate method. However, this proposition has
economic and legal difficulties. Instead, it is essential to develop new policies to focus on
areas of high earthquake risk as comprehensive urban regeneration activities. This new
policy requires new tools to monitor urban regeneration processes. It is obligatory to make
comprehensive plans for high risk areas and to take low income groups into consideration in
mitigation action plans. Comprehensive regeneration in existing districts could provide
means and standards of safety not necessarily maintained by the retrofitting of individual
buildings.
Potentials of regeneration processes are readily observed and practiced in Turkey as means
of regulating urban regeneration processes, even if for purposes other than safety. Analysis
of a set of regeneration projects selected from world experience indicates that current
regeneration practice in Turkey is far from a comprehensive approach. Municipalities are
fully empowered to designate regeneration areas and carry out redevelopment activities
often providing increased dentsities on compensate for the costs. This has been reinstated in
the new draft law. Rather than a separate law, general regulation of regeneration could be
accommodated in the Development Law 3194.
A special Law concerning regeneration could instead focus only on risk reduction issues in
cities throughout Turkey. The identification of priorities for such regeneration processes
could be made by the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement as the central authority,
clarifying the scale and timing of each project.
The implementation tools of urban regeneration and issues like authorization, responsibility,
funding, and auditing could be determined in this special law. A new approach for urban
regeneration is needed to describe organizational, participatory, financial framework.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610536/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 April 2009 |
| Creators | Eser, Nermin |
| 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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