Aspects of Urban Regeneration in Turkey: The Zeytinburnu Project

 Turkey has produced in global terms a significant volume of stock, within a limited period. Pace of production has barely allowed full professional services and supervision. As a result, the dominant nature of urban areas are low standard and low-quality unauthorised environments, representing large pools of risks.
Even though the ratio of rural population has to drop further in the near future, for an economy compatible to Europe, the rate of urbanisation is levelling and it is probable that the surplus is to persist.
Turkey cannot afford to follow the same policies of town expansion for another number of decades. Turkey has to upgrade its urban environment extensively, introducing better infrastructure, transportation systems, public services, shifts in scale economies, ensuring higher safety, reclaiming superior design standards and aesthetics, re-structuring social justice, and make a historical turn to comprehensive policies of urban regeneration.