Plan modifications within the contexts of planning control mechanisms Mersin case

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Urban development plans in the Turkish planning system envision that a time would come and the spatial development of any city would be completed in the specific planning period. The allegation of the planning system is to control every detail during urban development. However, the static nature of development plans within the regulatory context cannot provide strategies to manage the dynamic nature of the socio-political context. This contradictory situation involves tensions in planning control mechanisms and creates cleavages within the spatial context. ءChanges in the spatial context̕ are the indicators of such cleavages. They are conceived to be significant since they might enhance or erode the distinctiveness of a place. To the extent that possibility of change is disregarded in static nature of urban development plans, plan modifications become the primary tools for emergence of the ءchanges in spatial context̕. They usually emerge through individual actions and individuals begin to produce their own pattern of urbanism in the urban built environment. Management and control of ءchanges in the spatial context̕ is at the very center of the study. It is about shaping the physical form of development rights. The study aims to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative influence of plan modifications on the spatial context through a study within the whole contexts of planning control mechanisms. Hence, the study also concentrates on the operation of planning control mechanisms in the Turkish planning system. The plan modifications are evaluated throughout a detailed analysis held within boundaries of Municipality of Greater Mersin.

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City planning.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15820

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T. Ünlü, “Plan modifications within the contexts of planning control mechanisms Mersin case,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2005.