a critical evaluation on the concept of justice in planning process

Results of the studies of two important public institutions belonging to central
organizations can be listed as:
1- Development of a comprehensive countrywide housing policy is not mentioned in
this report.
2- It can be seen that the constructed houses and policies about these houses are not
regarded in an integral approach.
3- It can be seen that no statistical research about housing problem and no policy
basing on the <strong>evaluation</strong> on this way.
4- Among the data, rental houses, social houses, core houses are very little in amount
within the projects that are realized.
5- Attempts about meeting the housing needs of low-income groups are in limited
numbers.
3.2.3. Local Government and Transformation of Planning Authorities 47
Municipality Law no.1580 went into effect in 1930. Even though many changes
were done till 2000’s the most important change from the viewpoint of urban planning
is Development Law no.3194 which went into effecting 1985. While the authority of
planning and approving belonged to the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement
before 1980, it was transferred to the local administrations with this law. The
authorization transfer means the transformation of planning authorities from centralist
approach to localist approach, in other words it means localization of authorities.
According to the article 8/b of the law no.3194, only responsibility of local
administrations is giving information to the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement
about the planning activities also meant democratization, today the effects of transfer of
uncontrolled local authorization on cities can be seen, clearly. These general topics take
place among the duties of local administrations within the content of law no.1580:
duties of health and social aids within the boundaries of settlement; development;
education; agricultural; economic, security; transportation and other duties (Kele ,
47 With the Law of Public Administration which came into force in July, 2004 new regulations were done
in local administrations. This regulation is out of consideration in this study. However there are doubts
that this new law has a property of being alternative to the existing administration structure by the
extension in authorities and in authority fields.
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