Identification and analysis of parcel-based plan amendment types: The case of Istanbul

Abstract

Planning system in Turkey is a plan-led system typically driven by national policies through a hierarchy of plans and land-use decisions are implemented at the local level. However, high number of planning amendment reverses the hierarchy of a planning system and transfers the power to the last level. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to identify and analyze the parcel based plan amendments. The research method used to identify the types of the parcel based plan amendments is a systematic review of the municipal council reports in Istanbul as an explanatory case study and to analyze the timing, location, and spatial distributions of different types of the parcel based plan amendments. Based on the case study, six main parcel based plan amendment type is defined. By using this classification more than 2.900 proposals between the years 2014 and 2020 are analyzed and preliminary results of the types, the scope of the change, location, responsible municipality, and approval status of the parcel based plan amendments are given.