Local Governments and Urban Infrastructure in Urban Transformation

Urban transformation is the one of the most popular subject up to date. It is a multidisciplinary subject. It concerns many disciplines like, City and Regional Planning, Geomatic Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Law, Geology, Mining Engineering, Sociology, Public Administration and etc. Urban places are complicated and dynamic structures. They are living and getting older with time like us. Inevitably urban transformation is necessary, because of increasing population, natural disasters, old constructions and squatter houses. According to data of Turkish Statistical Institute, there are 20 million structures in the Turkey and again according to this data sixty percent of these buildings are older than 30 years old and they are not earthquake-proof. Meaning of this, approximately 12 million buildings are in danger. Also according to this data 76 percent of population is living urban places. Population is in the urban places growing six times more according to rural population. Urban transformation is very necessary, but most important subject of urban transformation is urban infrastructure. But governments and especially local governments generally disregards urban infrastructures because of their high cost. One of the purposes of the urban transformation is provide public well being. If urban infrastructure is disregarded in urban transformation projects this cause some undesirable results. Some of this traffic jams, natural disasters like water floods. There are a lot of bad samples in the past. In this study we investigated the positive and negative sides of the urban infrastructure in the urban transformation projects and tried to make some suggestion