The transition from national developmentalism to neoliberal capitalism in the context of deindustrialization, post-Fordism, and globalization is reshaping cities comprehensively (Keyder 2005). Cities in developing countries continue to grow uncontrollably due to high birth rates and by attracting rural migrants. Although a recent study highlighted the fact that urbanization has helped to reduce absolute poverty. Urban transformation is the main mechanism through which a neoliberal system is instituted in incompletely commodified urban areas. Kuyucu and Unsal (2008) raise a contentious issue in the urban planning discipline debate with the belief that “the analysis shows that the UTPs [Urban Transformation Projects] predominantly aim at physical and demographic upgrading of their respective areas rather than improving the living conditions of existing inhabitants, thus instigating a process of property transfer and displacement’.