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

and disasters, resilient and sustainable country space”. As a result, 10 goals,
32 strategies and 158 actions have been determined in the entire plan. A
monitoring and evaluation system has been established for the implementation
of all these goals. SSP of Türkiye, which includes the outline strategies for the
whole country and actions for the year 2053, assumes an important role for a
planned development.

4. SSP of Türkiye - Scope of Urban Transformation

SSP of Türkiye, as a plan covering the whole country, also addresses the
issue of urban transformation with a holistic approach. Urban transformation
and other relevant issues are considered in the goals, strategies and actions
of SSP of Türkiye starting from the priorities. One of the priorities of SSP of
Türkiye is to identify the risks of natural disasters and to ensure the resilience
of settlements. It covers geological/hydrogeological disasters such as
earthquakes, mass movements, floods, overflows; meteorological disasters
due to climate change such as drought, storms, extreme temperatures,
human-caused fires as well as detection of biological disasters, identification
of natural disaster risks and hazards in residential areas, and related urban
transformation practices and durable building stock. Another priority is to
improve the quality of life and space in settlements and covers issues such
as quality of life, liveable cities and settlements, people orientation, green
cities, green areas and green corridors, smart cities, sports for everyone,
adequate and accessible public facilities, qualified architecture and physical
environment, housing and sheltering, sustainable and healthy environment,
technical infrastructure, security and accessibility.
Urban transformation, within SSP of Türkiye, is addressed under the basic
concepts of resilience and liveability. The second goal of SSP of Türkiye is
“Resilience to Disaster Risks”, and in this context, when it comes to a liveable,
disaster-sensitive and resilient country space, it is aimed to ensure resilience
to holistic disaster risks, especially natural disasters, in all settlement units
and economic sectors. In this context, one of the strategies of SSP of Türkiye
is defined as “Strategy 02.01. Prevention of loss of life and property caused
by natural and human-caused disaster risks”. For this purpose, it is primarily
aimed to create holistic disaster, vulnerability, exposure inventories and
sensitivity, hazard and risk maps that allow the data to be evaluated together.
Risk reduction, response and improvement studies will be carried out for
disasters within the framework of these data. In addition, active fault zones will
be mapped and fault avoidance zones will be determined. By expanding the
scope of Geological-Geotechnical and Micro-zoning Studies based on the
Zoning Plan, it is targeted to conduct paleoseismology studies for active fault

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