**The Analysis of Turkish Urban Planning Process Regarding Sustainable Urban Development**

Okan Murat Dede

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/63271

#### **Abstract**

Sustainable urban planning is the recent phenomenon arising with the sustainability concept. Urban areas are the main bodies where sustainable policies can be applied and sustainability criteria have to be tested in. Urban life is equal to the social system in the contemporary world. Urban sustainable development becomes crucial and this condition can be obtained with urban planning. In this respect, sustainable urban planning becomes a crucial factor to maintain sustainability. Main problem is how to adapt existing planning procedures and processes into sustainable-based urban planning. In this chapter, it is analyzed how Turkish existing urban planning process can be adapted to sustainable urban planning without a radical paradigm shift in the Turkish planning system.

**Keywords:** participation, rational comprehensive planning model, sustainability indi‐ cators, sustainable urban planning, urban planning process in Turkey, governance, urban plans
