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Urban Transformation as a Tool to Protect From Disasters and
Post-Disaster Housing Project Examples

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Law No. 6306 and Implementing Regulation issued in 2012 regarding the
urban transformation activities describes this process in detail; it is aimed to
identify areas at risk of disaster and risky structures outside these areas, to
create healthy and safe living environments in these areas in accordance with
the rules and standards of science and art, to ensure the minimum loss of
life and property after any disaster, along with improvements, discharges and
renovations. In addition, apart from this law, 7 different laws are in force to
cover various situations, and an essential collection of legislation has been
created for the implementation of urban transformation activities. 7
The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change has
been authorized to carry out or to impose transformation projects and
implementations for structures unresistant to earthquakes and buildings
contrary to zoning legislation as well as the areas where they are located
(Law No. 6306 on the Redevelopment of Areas Under Disaster Risk and the
Implementing Regulation for Law No. 6306). Furthermore, according to the
legislation, the Ministry determines the areas of transformation, renovation
and transfer, identifies the structures in the places declared as areas of
transformation, ensures the land and terrain arrangement and valuation works
and operations. The Ministry has also been authorized to carry out works and
operations related to right ownership, reconciliation, urgent expropriation
if necessary, separation and combination of joint ownership, financing
arrangements, valuation of real estates within the transformation areas and
agreements with rights holders, granting building permits and building use
permits if necessary, establishing and registration of the condominium, and
transfer of zoning rights in transformation applications. Law No. 6306, in
addition to the individual transformation, has made field-based transformation
possible, and two different transformations have been defined including the
Risky Area and the Reserve Building Area.
From the year 2012, when the law No. 6306 entered into force, until April
5, 2023, a total of 256,694 structures having totally 904,693 independent units
including 781,333 houses, 123,360 workplaces were detected as risky, while
a total of 238,316 structures with totally 815,204 independent units including

or non-residential, 6% are for commercial purposes, and 7% are for other purposes.
6 Law No. 6306 on the Redevelopment of Areas Under Disaster Risk and the Implementing Reg-
ulation for Law No. 6306
7 These laws are; Law No. 7269 on Aids and Measures to be Taken Due to Disasters Affecting
Public Life, - Anti-Squatting Law No. 775, - Law No. 2981 on Certain Procedures to be Applied
to Structures Contrary to the Squatting and Zoning Legislation, and Law No. 6785 on Amending
an Article of the Zoning, - Law No. 2985 on Public Housing, - Law No. 5366 on the Renovating,
Conserving and Actively Using Dilapidated Historical and Cultural Immovable Assets, - Municipal
Law No. 5393 (article 73), - the Law No.5104 on the Northern Ankara Entrance Urban Regenera-
tion Project.

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