History of Aesthetic Control Management in Planning System, The Case of Turkey

Abstract

History Aesthetic Control Regulations Turkey Urban Planning Abstract: Abstract Urban aesthetics is a complex subject in which the city needs to be evaluated beyond its physical characteristics. While the urban planning and design effects on the physical health of human, the city effects on the human’s mental health. Aesthetic in urban areas has defined as beauty and the reflections of the beauty on the emotions of human. It is therefore perhaps surprising that the word design, aesthetic is not to be found in the Planning Acts. Why the control managing in urban planning is unclear?. While contemporary planning theorists largely ignore the issues, aesthetics and urban design have recently gained a central position within the practice of urban planning in all post-industrial countries. Actually design controls trace back in time to early settlement zoning but legalization of control and its codifying attempts is not too old. The reason of this delay was skepticism approach of the courts to this issue. Because of individual property aspect of control, many courts believed that nobody must deprive using of its own property. Aesthetic was considered as a luxury not necessity (Garvin & Leroy, 2003). As well as, too subjective issue of didn’t need to be the basis of valid regulation in urban planning until 1930. By the time the law began to change and a few jurisdictions moved to accept regulations for the reasons of public health, protection of property values, promotion of tourism and traffic. At the middle of 20 century, regulations got place in the scope of general welfare and over time a majority of states allow design review based solely on considerations. Zoning solely for purposes is an idea, which its time has come and it is not outside the scope of the police power. As the construction market plays a substantial role in Turkey, and the country deserves to be an international logistics base with its location right between Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa new attempts have done in order to deserve its location by enacting laws based on issues. Turkey’s planning system has changed under the influential of European countries during the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century until the influences of American by Marshall Aid at 1950-1980 (Ayatac, 2007). Aesthetic has had an important position in all these planning systems and regulations directly or indirectly. In this article programming according to Turkish urban planning system will be researched and regulations in connection with issues will be evaluated.