a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

that are not within the field of planning. In these processes determined by a series of
superstructures, the planning discipline can play no role and have no affect. However,
this assent also means accepting the current position of planning, in other words,
adopting all possible ways of urban space emerging as a result of not implementing the
plans, causing them to become uninfluential. Contrarily though, this takes place within
the field of planning itself. At least what happens in reality takes place upon “urban
space”, the space which planning targets at organizing. It is for this reason that planning
is a major component to the extent that it cannot claim to be neither unbiased, nor
neutral concerning the subject at issue. The observations pertaining to the dimension the
opportunities and distribution relations have reached in urban space; the inadequacy of
the technique, method and prevailing paradigm of planning process in highlighting this
process, and thus failing to be influential within, all entail the opinion that the debate on
justice is a crucial part of the planning discipline.
A second consideration involves the idea that the actors of the planning process
(formal, informal, superstructure institutions) and the concept of justice are to be
accepted within the discipline of planning both. These correspond to the effort to
interprete and understand the process and practice by elaborating these concepts. In this
study, the adopted consideration has been preferred to be the second one where the
concept of justice is given a central position as availing for an <strong>evaluation</strong> of the process
at issue.
1.3. Guidelines for the study: Statements and Assumptions on
Planning, Law and Justice
In context of this thesis where the planning practice in our country is considered
from a justice-centered point of view, the determinants of the practice can be adopted as
follows:
1. Integrated structure of the legal system – state within which the planning system takes
place:
Throughout history, there has been a constant discussion concerning the
problems as to how justice will be reached in every social system, by whom it will be
kept and taken care of, by which mechanisms it will be controlled and which ideas will
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