Author(s)

Tülay Öcal

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science and Letters, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Turkey.

In Turkey, urban planning works are staying on the agenda with the decisions made at the central level. Because these urban works reached their purpose in some of our cities, whereas these urban works became a big problem of our society. Urban transformation works covering population and settlement problems of human geography will be examined as urban geography and population problems and recommendations for solution will be made. Within the scope of this study, spatial and social changes on the city made by houses that are going to build over the Adana Çukurova District Municipality Houses and single-detached houses will be discussed and results obtained through interviews will be interpreted with a geographic point of view. Allocation of apartments according to plot size and the property owners will be indebted are the greatest concerns of property owners. The problems that will arise from the big identity change caused by vertical growth with the construction in the Municipality Houses will be analyzed and the expectations and concerns of people living in Municipality Houses will be determined.

Effect of Planning to Space, Urban Transformation in Çukurova, Municipality’s Attitude towards Planning, Property Owners’ Attitude towards Transformation

Öcal, T. (2019) Reflections of Urban Transformation on Horizontal City Landscape and Household: Adana Çukurova District Municipality Houses. Current Urban Studies, 7, 517-538. doi: 10.4236/cus.2019.74026.