Analyzing Urban Transformation Policies in Turkey Over Implementations Conducted in Cooperation with TOKİ: Case of Bursa

Abstract

In the study, urban transformation matter which is a significant agenda item in Turkey planning policies because of the recent implementations and the legal infrastructure developed in 2012 is analysed with its physical, social and organizational dimensions. The method used in the study is reaching general conclusions through the examinations that are done by focusing on determined samples and the centralized management of the implementations countrywide, with the monopolistic production approach provides this generalization. In the study which analyzes the evolving of urban transformation in Western countries and Turkey after remarking some opinions about structuring of urban transformation, the changing role and the targets of TOKI in this framework beginning from 2000’s in Turkey are discussed. Within the context of case study, the urban transformation projects implemented by TOKI in Bursa, having a significant situation in urban transformation strategies of Turkey, are discussed with its physical and social dimensions and the findings discovered are evaluated with different extents in the last chapter of the study. Through the evaluation made, some suggestions are developed for turning the centralized management into an advantage, making the transformation implementations fall within the urban entirety, provide social entegration, contribute to the city construct that is contemporaneous having a genious identity and to raise the communal quality of life by transformations.