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[Translated by: CINARERKOL] Hello everyone..! Welcome to my YouTube channel. This is going to be the second video of my project which is "All About Distorted Urbanization". In this video, we are going to talk about distorted urbanization. What is distorted urbanization? What are the causes and effects of distorted urbanization? How to avoid distorted urbanization? And a little bit extra information about distorted urbanization. But first of all, let's do a little bit of review.
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In the last video which is my first video of this project, I talked about urbanization. What is urbanization? What are the types of urbanization? What are the causes and effects of urbanization? I mentioned that urbanization is the increasing the proportion of the city and towns (in population actually). I mentioned also that distorted urbanization is one of the types of urbanization. Urbanization has basically two types; proper and distorted urbanization. I
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mentioned proper urbanization in the first video and in this video I am going to talk about only distorted urbanization. In the first video, I said that urbanization interacts with distribution, development process, industrialization and economic growth. During these processes we can see the busy city life and this causes for urbanization to take another dimension. If this dimension is executed in plans and improves according to a plan, we call this situation
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as proper urbanization. But if the dimension is executed without any plans and wrong managements, we call this situation as distorted urbanization. In this video, I am going to detail this sentence. But first of all, again and again, first of all, I just want to thank you all for your good feedbacks about my first video and messages. You're supporting with sharing my videos and also subscribing my
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channel. So thank you all for these actions. Let's talk about "What is Distorted Urbanization?".
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Distorted urbanization is the growth of a city without any planning and control powers. This means that a city, for example, Istanbul has no city planning or no control powers to check the situation in Istanbul. What is the situation? I said that the "situation" in Istanbul. But the situation means that the illegal and legal buildings in Istanbul, how the buildings get, how the buildings, how urbanization gets bigger in Istanbul? So a control power should be
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check this situation in a city to see how distorted urbanization happens, to see how urbanization gets bigger... Distorted urbanization spoil the historical, natural and cultural structure of the city. This is actually the effects of distorted urbanization. I am going to talk it about it on the next page... Let's talk about how distorted urbanization starts... It starts with a sudden migration wave to a big city from the countryside and also increasing the
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population growth happens to improve the distorted urbanization in a city. Because the requirements gets bigger in the city then the population gets bigger and also when migration wave happens to a city also shanty houses and towns happen. Shanty houses are illegal buildings that low-income people build on an empty place. Because of the need for housing, people build makeshift houses by their own. We can see shanty houses in a city that has distorted urbanization because people
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build shanty houses without any planning. Distorted urbanization also happens without any planning. So we can connect these two situations by "planning and control powers". If there is a control power, the government can see the number of shanty houses in the city and also this can give information about distorted urbanization level in the city. As I mentioned in here again, shanty houses built without any planning, permission or license.
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(every building has to) Every legal building has a license to be built in a place. Shanty houses built without any license or something. Permission, license shows the permission that someone can build a building in a place. I connected these two situations
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Shanty houses effects distorted urbanization a lot. The main cause of increasing shanty houses is rapid population growth and also migration. uncontrollable power, planning lack of infrastructure. These are the main causes of shanty houses. This is the general explanation of distorted urbanization. (summary) Growth of a city without any planning, control powers, also spoil the historical, the natural structure of the city. So this is the basically what has distorted urbanization.
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Distorted urbanization is related to shanty houses by control power, planning because shanty houses are illegal buildings that placed on empty places without any planning, license or permission... Let's talk about what are the causes and the effects of distorted urbanization. Distorted urbanization is a very important problem in the world that can affect our future. In this direction, there are many reasons for the formation of distorted urbanization.
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The biggest reason for distorted urbanization is inadequate attention, urban planning receives from political authority. Distorted urbanization is a fundamentally wrong urban planning problem including population growth and similar issues. Distorted urbanization occurs due to many problems like the unplanned design of the streets, administrators think of, not making a sustainable decision and allowing illegal buildings to be built... These
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are the main causes of distorted urbanization. I want to give a significant addition to this. To causes of urbanization. Distorted urbanization is not a problem of architects and construction companies because architectural companies have to work in line with the published contract rules. therefore architectural companies can't contribute in any way to the planned development of the city. If there is no power or planning in the region, the contracts related to the city planning
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also, operate according to that. As a result of this, the city grows in an unplanned manner and the unit responsible for this growth is the city planning department or the "Ministry of Environment and Urbanization". So this is important information about distorted urbanization causes because everyone thinks that distorted urbanization is the problem of architects. As I mentioned in the last sentences this is a wrong statement...
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Another cause of distorted urbanization is rapid population growth and migration to the city from the countryside... Also modernization, industrialization,
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migration from the countryside to the city and development in an uncontrolled manner. The explanations are given about can be key examples for the causes of distorted urbanization. Let's talk about the effects of distorted urbanization. We can see that distorted urbanization has many effects such as the impact on natural resources, infrastructure, our future and the countries economy and politics (in a bad way). It affects the ease of life. Distorted urbanization has consequences
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that mainly affect our ease of life. First of all the biggest effects of distorted urbanization is natural resources. The use of consumption of water resources increases and our water resources decreases according to that. The requirement of water increases and that happens to decrease in water resources... In another effect, the rate of urbanization is increasing which causes air pollution. The increase of urbanization multiplies the problems arising from the convenience
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of living. For example, increasing traffic, transportation, lack of education, industrialization, the rate of air pollution increases. Traffic also causes to have noise pollution too. So air pollution and noise pollution (as I mentioned in the first video) is also the effects of distorted urbanization too. It's both effects of urbanization and distorted urbanization. But if the distorted urbanization level gets bigger the
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air pollution and noise pollution level gets bigger too. Because of the population (because we can see the growth in the population). As we can see in actually Istanbul, our trees are cut down, nature is not being cared of... As we can see on the internet the places with forests and natural environments are open to a zoning plan. That means that buildings can be built in these places. Therefore, one of the effects of distorted urbanization is soil. Conversely with the need for soil,
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trees are cut down, nature is not being cared of and conversely, concrete is used. Concreting also disrupts the balance of nature and this happens to the risk of disasters. Like earthquakes... Earthquake is such an important problem. As a result of all these effects, there are consequences entail social unhappiness, destruction of the historical buildings, historical structures, not protecting the architectural structure of Istanbul and not establishing the state order...
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So these are the main causes and effects of distorted urbanization. For causes, I said that migration, population growth, wrong city planning and control power... For effects, I said that natural resources such as water, air and soil. Also air pollution, traffic and earthquakes... Let's talk about how to avoid distorted urbanization. Distorted urbanization is in a situation that can pose a danger in our world. It is a situation that causes bad appearance and allows variously
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problems to occur in infrastructure systems and all necessary needs such as transportation. The following actions should be taken to prevent unplanned urbanization such as the zoning plans should be checked and revised again. Because the zoning plan, city plans are not so good in city. The city plan should be prepared again by considering basic needs such as school, hospital and transportation. As I mentioned before, it should be determined whether all buildings are
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legal or illegal. Requirements of a city should be calculated again according to these things. All requirements of a city should be calculated again and also for possible disasters. Distorted urbanization effects on earthquakes... Places such as streets, parks should be revised in a planned manner. As I mentioned that distorted urbanization is the growth of the city without any plan so the basically we should change the city plan to avoid distorted urbanization.
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After talking about how to avoid distorted urbanization, I just want to give some extra. information about distorted urbanization. In this video, I talked about legal and illegal buildings. Legal structures approved by the ministry. So legal buildings (structures) are approved by the "Ministry of Environment and Urbanization". So legal buildings have permission and licence to be built on a place. illegal buildings are buildings that are constructed without following any rules.
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Inspection power and not taking the land registry, floor regulations and similar rules in the consideration. Such as buildings cannot be built under normal conditions, however, it is impossible to detect illegal structures in a country or city without control power. I write the number of illegal buildings in here (in Istanbul). In a line with a report published in 2019. It emphasized that there are 4.000.000 (four million) illegal buildings in Istanbul. With this news,
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we can see the level of distorted urbanization in Istanbul. It's highly dangerous for us... Also in 1960, there are over 240 000... Because distorted urbanization can affect our future a lot. Natural resources are decreasing water resources are decreasing, traffic is increasing, concrete is increasing... All we need is natural resources. But also, this will be affect on our future. It is so highly dangerous for us
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because as I explained in the previous page, natural resources are decreasing water resources are decreasing, air pollution and traffic is increasing and all we need is natural resources in our world, to be sustainable. So that affects our future too. As we can see, the number of illegal buildings increase a lot in 10 years... In 1960 the number of illegal buildings are 240.000 I think that this number is actually so much. But today there are four million... So yes, in 1970 there are
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600.000 illegal buildings. As we can see, in 1980 there are 890.000 illegal buildings and
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(in 2020) this year, the number of illegal buildings in Istanbul are for millions (more than four million). As I mentioned on the last page, our water resources are decreasing in this year 2020. In this year, our water resources are decreasing and I can't think that in our future if the illegal buildings get so higher, I can't think the level of natural resources such as water resources,
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forests, trees... Natural resources are the only things to be sustainable. So we shouldn't cut the trees, we should use our water effectively, we should revise our zoning plan, we should revise our city planning, we should change the system in our city. I just want you to know that distorted urbanization is (because of the wrong city planning and) we should change this situation
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We should know the importance of natural resources. We should know the importance of air, soil... We shouldn't use concrete, we should start to change the system... But the first step of changing this situation is "to raise this information". (actually) No one knows the effects of distorted urbanization on our future and natural resources. So the first step is to change the system in Istanbul. In city planning and control power, we should spread out this information, we should spread out
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What is distorted urbanization? How can distorted urbanization happen? And what are the effects of distorted urbanization? Also how distorted urbanization is highly dangerous for us..? As you can see in here, there are 4 million illegal buildings and this will probably get bigger in future... I just want you to spread out this video... This is not related to my project this is a real-life situation, real-life example... As you know I talked about how to avoid distorted
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urbanization situation. But nothing is happening so the first step of avoiding distorted urbanization is knowledge. We should know everything about distorted urbanization. This is the biggest thing of how to avoid distorted urbanization... By spreading out this knowledge by these informations.
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Such as, How to avoid distorted urbanization? What are the causal effects of distorted urbanization? What is distorted urbanization? What are the shanty houses..? To get better use of life, to get better air, to get a better natural resources, (actually) to get a sustainable city... I talked about in detail that what is distorted urbanization, what are shanty houses... As we can see in Istanbul there are so many
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shanty houses and this would be caused to improve in distorted urbanization Also, I talked about the causes of distorted urbanization and I connected the causes of distorted urbanizations with shanty houses. Also urbanization,
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also how urbanization becomes to distorted urbanization... I talked about that in this video... I just want to inform you about the importance of this situation. Distorted urbanization in Istanbul... Actually, the goal of my project is to inform you... I would be so glad if you also read my blog posts on "distortedurbanizationcinarerkol.blogspot.com". This is the end of this video. Thanks for listening to me...! As you know, the product of my project which is "Effects of Distorted
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Urbanization on Natural Resources" is not only a YouTube channel. I am also writing blog articles, blog posts related to the distorted urbanization (and) urbanization. You can find the same information. Also, more information on my blog page too because the video shouldn't be so long but on my blog page, there is so many information. (about distorted urbanization). So I would be so glad if you read my blog posts too. You can
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find the link in my Instagram account (too). This is the code of my Instagram account. that I just want you to visit the website by this QR code. I am posting photos related with urbanization, distorted organization. Also, the important words that I talked in this video in a little explanations. I would be glad if you check it out my Instagram account which is "@projectofdue.ist". And also you can find the reference part of this video in the explanation part of this video... So,
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again and again, thank you a lot for listening to me..! See you soon till the next video..! [Translated by: CINARERKOL]
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