Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PLANLAMA-PLANNING, cilt.3, sa.32, ss.488-509, 2022 (ESCI)
Uncontrolled and unplanned growth of cities causes urban sprawl, leading to various ecological and socio-economic problems such as increasing energy consumption, infrastructure and transportation requirements and stress on ecosystems. The negative results of political, economic and social factors causing uncontrolled and unplanned growth impacts mostly on life at the urban fringe. The cities in Türkiye have been also influenced from these factors, nevertheless, there are only a limited number of studies examining the tensions at the fringe arising from uncontrolled growth. This article aims to identify the rationales behind urban growth process and the implementations of planning and policy instruments for growth control in Ankara, the capital of Türkiye. This research contributes at both theoretical and practical levels, investigating the realized and unrealized policies and planning tools for growth control, reveals the need for more effective planning and policy instruments, with emphasis on the change in fringe. One of the important results of the research is that many strategies and tools have been produced for the control of urban growth since the 19th century up until the present day in Ankara. However, although the growth control strategies have been proposed in urban plans of Ankara as expropriation, greenbelt, creation of a boundary for the settlement, separating the settlement into districts, increasing building densities in city, decentralization, growth along the corridors, encouraging mixed-use development and integrated urban form strategy, the research reveals that the tensions at the fringe have increased particularly after the 1980s due to the marked-led and partial planning implementations.