Deliberative Democracy and Making Sustainable and Legitimate Development Plans: The Case of the Antalya Kırcami Agrihood

Hilal Erkuş (), Yavuz Selim Alkan and Gülşah Tırış
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Hilal Erkuş: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Akdeniz University, Antalya 07000, Türkiye
Yavuz Selim Alkan: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya 07000, Türkiye
Gülşah Tırış: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Akdeniz University, Antalya 07000, Türkiye

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-29

Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the process of land-use change through the lens of the preferences of local actors in the Kırcami Agrihood. Our main focus is to investigate whether the decision-making mechanisms used in the Kırcami development plan (i) are carried out in accordance with deliberative democracy and (ii) whether they are true, systematic, and typical tools of deliberative democracy. To do so, in-depth interviews were conducted with local actors, namely residents, investors, and local government, and their preferences and views regarding urban agriculture and the decision-making process were examined through discourses. Our first finding is that very few tools of deliberative democracy are used in the making of the Kırcami development plan, and they are not idealised tools. Our second finding is that less than half of residents and investors participate in these flawed democratic decision-making processes; thus, the transformative power of deliberation does not function in the Kırcami case. Finally, deliberative democratic tools are not incorporated into Turkish legislation at both local and national levels. We conclude that these three issues should be addressed, and genuine tools of deliberative democracy should be used to make the Kırcami development plan more sustainable and legitimate.

Keywords: deliberative democracy; construction plan; urban agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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