Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, cilt.151, sa.4, ss.1-18, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus)
Urban transformation represents a pivotal process that aims to enhance the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of cities. This study presents a global comparison of urban transformation projects across 10 countries. The evaluation framework employed in this study encompasses 10 key criteria, which were applied to a diverse range of urban transformation projects in 10 countries: Turkey, Japan, Germany, the United States, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, and India. These criteria include goals and objectives, methods and strategies, legal and institutional frameworks, socioeconomic impacts, environmental sustainability, technological and engineering solutions, community participation and communication, scale and scope, successes and challenges, and demographic impacts. The data were collected from both primary and secondary sources, including structured surveys conducted with experts in urban planning, engineering, sociology, and environmental sciences, as well as peer-reviewed articles and reports from organizations such as UN-Habitat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank. A Likert scale, ranging from 0 to 5, was employed for the evaluation of the performance of each country in accordance with the specified criteria. The findings indicated that China and South Korea demonstrated the most advanced technology and robust community involvement, while India and Japan exhibited notable achievements in socioeconomic impacts and earthquake resilience. Conversely, Brazil encountered difficulties in environmental sustainability, while Germany faced challenges in the realms of community participation and social equity. A social network analysis of global collaborations revealed significant interactions, with a network density of 53.80%, a degree centrality of 0.526, a closeness centrality of 0.679, and a betweenness centrality of 0.042. This identified Germany and India as central players, whereas Brazil exhibited limited collaboration. The environmental sustainability analysis further emphasized energy efficiency, carbon footprint reduction, and natural resource conservation. Germany was identified as an exemplar in energy-efficient projects, Japan demonstrated innovative approaches that may be constrained by regional factors, and Brazil and South Africa exhibited areas requiring significant improvement.