Attitudes of The Municipalities to the Existing Urban Transformation Works in Turkey: A Research Through Istanbul County Municipalities

Urban transformation is one of Turkey's main agenda since the 1999 G？lcük and Düzce earthquakes. Over time, urbanization problems and rent are added to this fear of earthquake. So it would not be wrong to say that urban transformation has been implemented as a national mobilization. But unprecedented practices have brought questions about the quality of urban transformation which are implemented in Turkey. In relation to the subject, with this study; the views of the municipalities on the existing urban transformation works have been identified. Reason for choosing the municipalities is; the municipalities are the most important urban transformation practitioners in Turkey. In addition, during the literature review it was seen that the attitudes of the municipalities were not identified in relation to the urban transformation studies in Turkey. Within the scope of the study, 77 managers who are serving in 39 municipalities in Istanbul were reached. The results were subjected to reliability analysis of the SPSS statistical program and the ratio was 0.97. In this context, it has been determined that there are problems at physical, economic, social, planning, governance and legal dimensions of urban transformation works in terms of municipalities