PLANLAMA-PLANNING, cilt.30, sa.3, ss.361-373, 2020 (ESCI)
Migrations from rural to cities and slums/slum areas as the reflection of migration have been subject to many urban intervetions in a period of aproximately 70 years in our country Slums subjected as main element of the urban intervetions because of their illegal content on land and houing issues. While this situation creates grounds for legal directing interventions, spread of slums has not prevented, due to populist attitudes and approaches existence of this formations maintained as the fundamental dynamics of urbanization practices of Turkey. Aformentioned legal regulations, some part in demolishing of slums in settlement areas and some part for preventing new slums, created a legitimizing content for immigrants who obtain housing rights with their own unique solution methods in the city. While such a progress created a legitimate ground for planning and new development rights, it has revealed significant transformations in projects. After 2000s, this transformation acquired dimension with a strong legal background and large scale urban transformation projects. Two important legal regulations of this process are Article 73 of Municipal Law no 5393 and law no 6306 Regarding the Transformation of Areas Under the Risk of Disaster. Through both regulations, a new urban experience has gotten out across the country. This study tries to reveal this common experience, the implementation of urban transformation projects in Turkey through Turkey-Legal Gazette with discusses change of projects by years and their spatial size and tries to show the prevalence of the applications across the country through maps.