Abstract:

Pressure on rural areas in the world is increasing day by day, due to the factors such as population and demographic changes, mobility of the population, need of housing, increase in demand for nature and recreation areas. In Turkey, in addition to the general tendency such as the EU accession process, the European Spatial Development Perspective, new agriculture policies, environmental and sustainability debates, along with the Law No. 6360, which entered into force in 2012, the local government system has become a scene of drastic changes, has brought the issues of rural planning back to the agenda. However, existing zoning legislation and planning practice are insufficient in terms of rural planning. For this reason, this study focuses on which planning tools can be used in rural planning. For this purpose, research is being conducted on which rural planning tools are used in countries that have similar practices in rural planning and have similar experiences with Turkey. This study puts forward the indicators of rural area planning and the study also contributes to the literature of planning, laws and regulations and practical applications.

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