An Analysis on Turkey's Urbanization Process in the Context of Urban Development Paradigms

On Urban Development And Conjunctural Context

Social transformation involves changes and transformations taking place at different degrees in all dimensions of social structure depending on time and space. The quality and quantity of social change, which is markedly different at the global, national and local scale, varies from society to society. Although functional differentiation or change in urban areas takes place in a short period of time, the fact that this condition becomes apparent in physical tissue requires a much longer temporal process (Aktüre, 1987, p. 2). Social relations and values are reproduced in the context of variables such as changing and developing means of production, technical and scientific developments, the style of capital accumulation, the nature of state intervention and urban actors. These regenerated social relations and values define the political, economic and socio-cultural status of a defined period. The political, economic and socio-cultural phenomena experienced in the process of social development spread to the social and physical processes in the urban area. This creates positive or negative results in the form of objective and subjective patterns in urban tissue, and also becomes apparent in space. With all its components, this process creates the evolution of urban development of a settlement. This structural transformation, which takes place in the social structure and urban space in parallel with social variables, is explained as urban development / change as a concept with a wide content including urbanization and urbanization.