a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

3. Set of values produced through social processes (social, economical, cultural)
within daily practice:
Apart from the above-mentioned first two determinants, a series of daily practice
that prevail the geography in question constitutes another determining factor. Among
the actors of this practice as representing the informal process take place the individuals,
associations, foundations, firms and networks of relation. These informal actors are
included within the process sometimes as manifest, other times as secret/concealed
forms of social organization. Taking place in and/or out of the same geography, these
informal actors act differently with regard to the legal regulations adopted as the formal
form of social regulation. Apart from the legal form of justice, they exist via a different
perception and acceptance of justice that is determined by ethics, moral values and beliefs.
The discipline of planning represents only one of these actors undertaking roles
in formation of urban space. Within this set of actors including the planning discipline,
the perspectives, demands, intentions and targets of every actor differs from one another. At
the same time, the power, method, affectivity rate of these actors to have impacts upon
space also changes from one to another. The urban settlements of our time emerge as the
final products of different demands and perceptions of all these different actors and
different ways of activities. 3 In context of this study, all these actors and the whole set of
urban activities have been regarded as the practical process of planning in Turkey. Within this
trio of generalizations, both the individuals as actors each and the institutions constitute the
determinants of the planning process in line with justice conceptions of their own.
1.3.1. Assumptions on Planning, Law and Justice
In the debate of “justice within the process of planning”, at which this thesis
aims, the existence and variety of these actors are admitted first. Concerning the
analysis as to how justice is defined by these actors, the demands of these actors have
been determined and the way of rights are described and analyzed. These analyses are
regarded to be guiding in understanding and encountering the different demands met
during the formation process of physical space. The basic assumptions and the
3 Related views on this are manifest in the papers presented in particularly the World Urbanization Day
meetings held for the last 10 years of Turkish practice. As for the world literature, the debates, searches
and new paradigms related with the theory and practice of the last three decades are developed upon the
assents guided by such a way of thought.
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