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The Place of Urban Transformation in National Planning:
The Case of The Spatial Strategic Plan of Türkiye

system has not yet been determined holistically. With this document, the
first steps have been taken towards the preparation of different typologies of
urban transformation at country scale and the determination of priority areas
in practice (Republic of Türkiye, Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and
Climate Change, 2023b), and it has paved the way for including the urban
transformation in our planning system in a systematic way. As of the date of
preparation of the document, it became obligatory for local governments
to prepare an Urban Transformation Strategy Document and to make it
approved by Ministry of Environment and Urbanization of Republic of Türkiye.
For this reason, it plays an effective role as much as upper-scale and local-scale
plans within the scope of urban transformation applications. In the scope of this
report, main decisions on urban transformation practices based on the whole
settlement area and the steps for implementing these decisions are included in
the scope of Urban Transformation Strategy Document by taking into a holistic
approach that is related to upper scale plans. In addition, it contains the steps
for preparing the Urban Transformation Strategy Document, which should
include the analysis of the whole city, the prioritization studies within the scope
of transformation, the legal bases, the financing method, the implementation
schedule and the design criteria. This report is a preliminary step towards the
harmonization of urban transformation practices throughout the country.
Current situation of urban transformation phenomenon in Türkiye’s upper
scale plans and strategy documents highlights that the transformation should
be carried out for the purposes of reducing disaster risk, improving the quality
of life and space and revitalizing the historical areas. Besides, it is seen that
an approach towards a holistic and flexible planning approach has been
adopted with decisions regarding the social and social dimensions of urban
transformation. In all this scope, the absence and necessity of an inclusive and
operational approach regarding the legal, managerial and upper-scale plans in
Türkiye have allowed urban transformation to be examined in depth during the
SSP of Türkiye process. In this context, the following sections of the study sets
forth the way urban transformation is handled in the SSP of Türkiye process and
include the goals, strategies and actions identified for urban transformation.

3. Türkiye’s SSP Process

With the changing and evolving needs in cities, the perception of strategic
planning has gradually adopted rather than the traditional planning approach.
Strategic plans have become multi-layered and multi-actor plans, especially
with their participatory processes. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the
perception of planning has started to develop in this direction in Türkiye as
well, after 2009 Urbanization Council, the “Determination of the Methods

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