a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

These questions are directed towards consideration of the conflicts/disputes
within the process of adjudication in Turkish practice as based on the experience of case
study area selected.
1.4. Methodology
As the case study, planning processes of Balçova and Narlıdere settlements in
between 1991-2003 were analyzed and evaluated with the aim of clarifying the role of
justice concept in planning process over judicial control. Actions in judicial control
process constitute the necessary amprical data required to make justice discussions in
planning process over concrete events. In the examination of actions in the extent of this
thesis, above mentioned actors of planning process are classified as follows;
plaintiff/defendant parties representing the private persons and institutions, experts as
representatives of planning discipline, persons charged with planning process and
approval authorities and courts as representatives of legal process. Claims of these
actors, as parties, constitute the primary data to discuss the changing meaning of justice
and changing content of justice demands. In this process, there are data which are
obtained in two different fields and examined under different <strong>evaluation</strong>s. First kinds of
data are the generalized ones that were obtained in order to examine in which subjects
and how often these actors of planning process have conflicts. These data are used in
order to determine in which subjects, in which stage of planning process and how often
actions do occur. In this extent, problems and conflicts, which were occurred with
demands of these components examined in planning process as a whole, can be
determined and discussed. Besides, these data form the criteria of selection in
determination of which subjects and samples can be taken into consideration in detail.
Second kind of data consists of the detailed data regarding the case samples
which were selected to make detailed discussions after general <strong>evaluation</strong> stage. In the
discussions made by the help of these data, it is possible to determine in which forms
and in which different contents right, equality, interest and liberty concepts as
determinatives of justice concept have been used in the claims of parties. In Rawlsian
perspective, a need originated justice concept and use of this concept in the process and
the existence of alternative <strong>evaluation</strong> possibilities can be discussed. Furthermore,
during plan making, research, approval and implementation stages, examination of these
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