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Abstract enCapital is a country’s face looking at outside. Therefore, in many countries a special effort is exerted for making the capital aesthetic and perfect in visual and functional aspects. Creating a harmonious functionality between the urban functions in the frame of the urban-area arrangements; the action of urban planning has become the main means of application for making the urban area healthy, compatible, and habitable. Hence, the action of urban planning has a special and distinctive place in capitals. In this study; firstly the theoretical framework of the urban development and urban planning has been specified. Then, for a city, the distinctive feature of being elected as the capital has been emphasised. Lastly, the urban planning stories including the initial urban planning processes of the selected capitals have been handled; and the subject of how and in what direction the problems faced in these processes affected the urban development has been dealt with

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