Examing of urban design competitions in Turkey in context of landscape architecture

Although it is possible to follow the traces and development of the 'Urban Design' concept in the historical process, there is still no certain definition of this concept. This controversial and comprehensive concept becomes an opportunity to develop the right ways of thinking for cities for the disciplines of planning, design and art and it comes into being with the collective contributions of these disciplines. It may be necessary to accept 'Urban design' phenomenon as a agora that can bring related professions together, introduce and interact each other rather than just one professional field.Urban design brought up various discussions with the emergence of different types of competitions that it gave its name and shaped the specification. Besides it provokes competence motive among planning and design based professions and is a new and trying to be understandable concept for academy, the subjects that come together as a result of competitions, juries, collective competition teams found a new field of study and method. The problems, opportunities, processes and results arise from the term of 'urban design' for the whole related actors in landscape architecture constitutes the subject of this study.