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This chapter offers an insight to planning issues and challenges for
Turkish city centers as well as, an analysis of specific features of Turkish
city centers along with general characteristics of urban public policy and
programs. It will discuss the impact of new consumption spaces (i.e. shopping
centers) and development patterns (compactness vs. urban sprawl) on city
centers; spatial problems of city centers; social segregation and inequality in
city centers; and issues of accessibility in relation to major strategies of
urban resilience. The goal is to uncover normative and descriptive
characteristics of city centers at a multiscale level, which will be useful for
investigating the theoretical and practical aspects related to city centers.
This chapter will be helpful to find common ground among many countries for
urban public policymaking, and hopefully, for more innovative and effective
plans. Such policy programs and plans developed specifically for city centers
will help preserve and prosper city center vitality in an era of complexity. This
chapter explores whether there is regularity in site characteristics of city
centers, which are implicit in theoretical foundations, and in probing further,
to explore common planning issues and challenges that city centers are facing
around the world.