Regions and regional planning in Turkey
Regions and regional planning in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: Region is evaluated as a spatial unit which defines the economic-social structure and in which the planning processes like determining; implementing; managing and inspecting the regional development strategies and politics changing within the scope of paradigm changes are carried out. In Turkey; experience related to regional development politics goes back to the 1960s; it has been analysed to what extent regional planning and the concept of a region are affected by the changing processes which are experienced in economic and social structure; according to which criteria the borders for regional planning are determined and the role of these borders in the success of regional politics. According to the results; being unable to provide the interaction between regional planning and the meaning attributed to the concept of a region is the main factor in the non-occurrence of the success which has been aimed in regional development politics although regional planning and the concepts of a region are affected from the paradigm changes.

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