This book presents an overview of urban and regional planning in Turkey. It discusses the
fundamental topics and contemporary issues in the field. The book is organized in two parts and
it includes 14 chapters. Chapter 1 is designed as an introduction defining the framework of
urbanisation in Turkey and the evolution of urban planning providing a background for the
remaining chapters. In Part I contemporary issues of urban and regional planning in Turkey are
covered (i.e. new route taken by regional planning the role of the planner in the process of
shaping the urban form of Turkish cities the specific features of Turkish city centres
large-scale public investments and their effects on urban areas urban growth of Turkish cities
from an urban morphological viewpoint and problems and recent planning discussions related to
the conservation of archaeological heritage). The challenges faced by urban and regional
planning in Turkey are discussed in Part II (i.e. major challenges in residential
transformation excess housing production and the future of housing markets challenges posed
by increasing (global) immigration and refugees challenges due to integration of a resilience
thinking framework into the planning systems development and planning activities of
settlements in hazard prone areas and the current state of climate policy and governance). In
the concluding chapter an overall assessment of the contemporary issues and challenges for
urban and regional planning in Turkey is made with special emphasis on the last 15 years of the
country. Discussions on the case of Turkey could be useful examples both for developed and
developing countries.
