Derivation of planning culture, from norms to implementation: embedded real planning practices one city two cases
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2016
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This paper recognises the need to study planning cultures away from appropriated Western approaches, since the emergence of distinct practices are visible even under the common impacts of globalisation. The paper reflects the fact that planning culture is a dynamic process subject to various changes (social, political, economic and technological) and effective on both planners and those institutional responses to them (Sanyal, 2005) these in turn are also accumulative and continuously build on the previous practices. Therefore, this study argues it is not the culture per se but the complex, dynamic and accumulative condition of the practices that are appropriated and become tradition form the planning culture.
Urban development which evolves through relentless investment in the built environment, especially for developing countries like Turkey, is usually recognised as the main pillar of success of local and national governments; therefore, it usually has a central position in local and national agendas. However, the consistent reshaping of the urban built environment also reformulates the planning culture via practices including the operation of urban power; the actors involved and their roles that consequently generate a further impact on the socio-spatial dimension of urban space. Therefore, practice and the reality of planning, which often disappoints (Hiller, 2002), including the roles and behaviours of various actors, planning features (including norms of representation and policies), planning structures (including customs and tactical actions), decision making processes (before, during and after periods),
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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