a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

liberal state, today, emphasizes on probability of re-organization in all social institutions
with a need based approach together with the emphasize which gives priority to
equality. Such a consideration accepts the necessity of reorganization of the state and all
social institutions by accepting the priority of equality. Second proposition on the other
hand indicates to the changes seen today against all critics. Approach presented by
Nozick contrarily with the theory of Rawls seems to have an application opportunity
practically and not in theory when the prevailing neo-liberal policies are considered.
Planning discipline when considered as an activity which is an organizing tool
of the state and limited by the liberal state, it can realize its activities by staying within
the selected state form. In this context, limits determined by “formal justice” will form
the limits of planning discipline practices. On the other hand, every kind of urban
planning activities realized within these limits informally and ethically will be open to
questioning and critics. In other words, priorities of the state from and concepts of
freedom, equality, rights and interests which are accepted within this form and all
organisations realized basing on these priorities will also constitute the limits/limitations
of planning discipline. These limits will come into agenda as the determinants of
planning practices and principles of these practices with their reflections on
countrywide practices. In this frame, it is recognised that countrywide practices about
how the national policies and selections are realized from the viewpoint of “justice” in
general and “spatial” in private and how they are considered gain importance.
Justice and freedom approaches which develop in parallel with the development
of modern liberal state followed a development pattern starting from individual rights to
social and economic rights and in the last twenty years to “the rights of mutual support”.
When in one hand this development was realized on the other hand they caused new
arguments /approaches in planning discipline. When it is regarded that developments in
rights and freedoms are not synchronous and do not follow a linear development it is
important to determine how they are considered within practices of the country.
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