a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

and the problem has come to an end. On the contrary this problem still continues 57 . It is
a matter to be discussed what the right to live in a healthy environment means for the
ones who cannot have this opportunity.
Because these amnesty laws generally do not have the quality to bring solution
to the housing problem of low-income groups, consider the problem only from spatial
viewpoint and no integral <strong>evaluation</strong> is done about housing policies, gecekondu
problem as a social, economic and physical sheltering for low income groups has not
yet solved. Likewise after Development amnesties after 1980 in Izmir, in the studies
about gecekondu problem it is seen that citizens who cannot meet their housing needs in
market conditions continued to form new gecekondu areas as a solution to this problem.
Existing gecekondu areas in urban space were either accepted as non-existing and
standart implementation plans were made by the municipalities or they were organized
as profit tools for different social groups by the municipalities.
When Izmir sample is examined it is seen that slum reclamation plans were not
solutions for gecekondu problems. Now on the agenda of cities “gecekondu
improvement” attempts within the content of “urban renewal” projects take place.
Urban land taking its place in capital accumulation process and strengthening of
house/land market results desertion of process of sharing the profits to the market
mechanisms. In this process the sheltering needs of low-income groups and poor
citizens can not be met. In this content, low-income city dwellers who cannot realize the
right to live in a healthy environment and right to own a house have the property of
being illegal but also being legitimate.
3.5. Housing and Sheltering; Right to Live in a Healthy Environment
and Results of the Arrangements
In formal justice arguments, in a general <strong>evaluation</strong> done about the city and
concept of urban planning discipline, firstly the legal-administrative arrangements and
practices formed within the frame of the Constitution have to be discussed. Therefore,
firstly a general <strong>evaluation</strong> about housing and ownership which take place among the
57 Unfinished report studying gecekondu formation processes after the Development Amnesties in sample
of Izmir is a detailed study on this subject. “Gecekondu Areas in Izmir After the Construction Amnesty
Acts: Socio-economic, spatial analysis” research findings supported by Tübitak.
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