Global Lessons Learned for Urban Resilience and Regeneration Projects : Informing Turkey’s Urban Transformation Process
Over the last decade, turkey has initiated several regulatory and institutional reforms to better mitigate and reduce disaster risks, with a focus on seismic risk. The Squatter (Gecekondu) Law No. 775 (1966) was the first regulatory effort to produ...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/347121625066734390/Global-Lessons-Learned-for-Urban-Resilience-and-Regeneration-Projects-Informing-Turkey-s-Urban-Transformation-Process http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35911 |
| Summary: | Over the last decade, turkey has
initiated several regulatory and institutional reforms to
better mitigate and reduce disaster risks, with a focus on
seismic risk. The Squatter (Gecekondu) Law No. 775 (1966)
was the first regulatory effort to produce housing for
low-income groups in Turkey, and with the Mass Housing Law
No. 2985 (1984), they aimed to accelerate the production of
social housing. These regulations, which are still in force,
demonstrate the importance given to low-income housing
production in Turkey. In the 2000s, the legal concept of
"urban transformation" emerged; and it started to
be mentioned together with "disaster risk". Since
2005, three regulations have informed urban transformation
efforts, including the renewal of dilapidated buildings: The
73rd article of the “Municipal Law (2005)” numbered 5393
provides the legal basis for local administrations to carry
out urban transformation practices; More precise planning
and implementation tools were defined to support the renewal
of historical heritage sites, and put under legal provision
separately from other urban areas, under the Law No. 5366 on
the "the Conservation by Renovation and Use by Renewal
of Dilapidated Historical and Cultural Immovable
Properties" / "Renewal Act (2005)"; and The
"Law on Transformation of Areas Under Disaster
Risk" numbered 6306, aimed to increase the resilience
of cities against disasters by eliminating the risk in order
to ensure the safety of life and property, especially
earthquake disasters. |
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