a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

development in urban areas created by this process increases the dual structuring and
inequalities and urban planning turns in to a constitution which increases the
inequalities with its fragmented approach. Free circulation of the capital and new
accumulation models re-shapes the urban area as a component of this development.
Inequalities in economic field are reflected on the spatial area and spatially reproduced
again.
Social state which takes place in the relative equality approach presented by the
progressive model enters into a new period with privatisation policies on public services
like education, healthy, etc. and with decreases in the enterprises. (Keyder, 2000, 34-
35).
3.4. Gecekondu (Squatter Settlements) and Legal Arrangements
Fact of gecekondu began to be seen in Turkey at the end of 1940’s as the result
of rapid urbanization and intense immigration. Solution taken for the problem of
housing requirements of the population who migrated to the cities and who could not
meet their housing needs in legal ways is called as “gecekondu”. Gecekondu formation
process even though is a way of meeting the needs of shelter from 1940’s to today also
represents a very different social structuring. According to Kongar, in the development
of this social structure, gecekondu formation process as “owning house in illegal ways”
also started two other processes, which developed with itself. First one is speculation on
plots and the second is the degeneration in local and central policies. These two
processes which started with gecekondu formation process took strength from it as
strengthened it. This trio gecekondu formation process, speculations on plots and
political degeneration began to affect the general urban pattern of the country and
consequently the general urban pattern of the country and consequently the general
structure of it (Kongar; 1998, 563-64). It is possible to detect the reflections of the
determinations of Kongar on legal process, too.
Gecekondu Law No.775 which came into effect in 1996 is the most
comprehensive law about gecekondu since 1948. In the first article explaining the
content of this law it is stated that; “decisions of this law will be practiced about
subjects like improvement, elimination of existing gecekondu, preventing building new
gecekondu and involves measures that will be taken for this purpose.” The definition of
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