Kompleks modernite için planlama: Türkiye örneği

This thesis investigates the relationship between planning and modernity, follows theevolution of conventional planning within epistemological shifts and globalizationprocesses, and searches for a communicative planning alternative for Turkey on thebackground of Turkish planning experience within the broader context of Turkishmodernization and democratization.Conventional planning for national development took shape in the context of simplemodernity characterized by positivist social science, nation state and capitalism. It isstate and expert centered, and based upon instrumental rationality. Parallel to newepistemological debates and globalization processes, conventional planning has goneinto a crisis. Today, there is a ?communicative turn? in planning theory that entailscompetition among multiple rationalities within a broader and multi-layered publicsphere. As a developing country that has used planning extensively in itsmodernization process, Turkey faces a similar crisis in planning. Conventionalplanning in Turkey reached to its limits towards the end of 1970s. However, neo-liberal discourse, replacing planning since 1980, could not deliver to the mountingproblems of efficiency and democracy either. In that context, Turkey needs to gobeyond a simple market versus state dichotomy and should generate a genuinecommunicative planning in its development process.Based upon global trends in planning theory and the Turkish planning experienceover the 20th century, communicative planning is emerging as a real possibility inTurkey. With its long experience in multi-party democracy and recentdemocratization impetus accelerated by its candidacy for full membership into theEU, Turkey can be one of the pioneering countries in the developing world, if itachieves communicative planning. Bringing the state, market and civil societyrepresentatives together, communicative planning can enrich information basis ofplanning, restore legitimacy of plans in political and social domains, and thus,increase the possibility of successful implementation of plans.Keywords: Complex Modernity, Globalization, Communicative Planning, TurkishPlanning