Public Housing Production in Turkey within the Framework of Sustainable Urban Development and Construction

It is difficult to say that the existing public housing applications put forward as a solution to the housing problem in Turkey have been developed with sustainable development and sustainable physical country and regional planning and urban development and architectural policies as the decision-making, programming, planning, design, and implementation/construction processes are directed towards a holistic goal. Considering the current situation in Turkey, a necessary document for environmentally sustainable housing and housing production reference and evaluation system is not available.

The lack of an evaluation model to refer to sustainability in Turkey, and the absence of a national green building certification system that does not set the basic criteria and environmental performance evaluation is a serious shortcoming. This shortcoming is one of the important factors that hamper sustainable building and housing practices. In this context, the culture of production in public housing will be considered in the context of sustainability, sustainable urban development, and sustainable architecture, which will evaluate international experiences and studies, and discuss the possibilities for making the mass housing production culture and the urban development sustainable.

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