 İbrahim Baz, İstanbul Metropolitane Planifikasyon Centresi'nin presidendi. İngilizce çok iyi değil. Türkiye'yi konuşacağız. Eğer bir telefon var, İngilizce'de devam edebiliriz. Türkiye'de. İstanbul Metropolitane Planlama Bürozu. Iıı bir ııı çevre planı hazırladı. Iki bin altı yılında. Bu çevre planı ııı bugün gözden geçirilerek tekrar ııı ııı tamamlandı. Iıı şimdi bu ııı çevre planı hakkında ııı İbrahim Buz bize bilgi verecek. İstanbul Metropoliten Planlama Bürosu ııı bir belediye şirketi altında örgütlenmiş ııı bir ofis ve çok sayıda üniversite öğretim üyesiyle birlikte işbirliği yapan bir kurum. Türkçe mi konuşayım? Inglis? Inglis ya peki. Okey. Iıı try to speak English. Okay. Right. Thank you very well. And then as Korhan Gümüş stated that I'm going to make a presentation about the environmental plan studies we carried out in our center. And then in my presentation context will be covering about the seven parts. First of all to understand the planning studies and the visions and the objects of the planning for the Istanbul Metropolitan area. It is better to know some of the facts and issues about the Istanbul. And then what we faced as the challenging situations at the stage of planning. And then why was the necessary necessitated became for the establishment of the IMP and then the planning process and visioning the Istanbul and the objects of the plans and some of the hotspots or special project areas that we decided together with the planning studies. If we have a look at some of the figures and the facts about Istanbul. Istanbul has a over a hundred and thirty three billion US dollar economy and income. So together with this economy, Istanbul is in fact bigger than almost hundred and twenty seven twenty seven countries in the world. And also Istanbul has 36% of the exports and the 40% of the imports of Turkey, which is passing through Istanbul. And with this situation, Istanbul of course, can be named as a huge industrial city. And also Turkey's 45% of the national production is supplied through Istanbul or by Istanbul's economy. And then if you have a look at the population of the Istanbul according to the census data, 2007, our population is just over 12.5 million and it is increasing yearly. And if you have a look at the statistical data for the population increase, every year we are almost having 300,000 more population. And then of course, this is very much dangerous situation for Istanbul. But main reason for this is because Istanbul is the Turkish biggest industrial city. So we have to stop Istanbul's industrialization at some point. So this plan is in fact deals with that much. And then according to this population increase, of course the settlement areas development also increased parallel to that. And then in 30 years, Istanbul's settlement areas are increased by 57%. And this in fact causing a real trade for the water basins. And in recent years, one of the most important water basins in Istanbul, the Küçükçek Middle East, unfortunately it is not now usable as our main water resources body. And then what is expecting us for the planned challenges? And until the 2005 Istanbul's Metropolitan Municipalities Alternative Border was one third of the borders now is an area. So we got three times bigger area since 2005. So we had to deal with three times more areas than before. And again, according to the same law, which passed through the Turkish parliament in the 2005 preparation of the environmental plans should be completed in two years time. So although Istanbul Metropolitan Municipalities bureaucrats and the directories and departments are quite excellent and experienced in these fields, but this is a new challenge. So a new kind of establishment should be settled up. So that was the reason why I'm going to mention later on the IMP was established. And again, this kind of study needed multi-sectoral research studies. And also since Istanbul has Turkish biggest economy, we have here a very, very powerful association chambers and bodies. So we have to sit together with them, discuss with them. So we had to find out the best suitable way for Istanbul. So multi-actor decision making was necessary and we done it in our studies. Again, scale of the city and the complexity of the issues were main challenges for planning Istanbul. And also the other challenges was the areas outside previous municipalities or authorities, the local municipalities there, they had their own city plans. They carried out all those plans individually and independently without any integration. So that was also causing lots of problem. So this was also another challenge to integrate all these plans in the best way. And also we have another challenge whether we should do the ordinary conventional master planning study or strategic planning study or we combine both and produce a new understanding of planning. We done it so. Both the conventional master planning and the strategic planning carried out simultaneously. And also we studied many metropolitan city plans, London, Paris, Barcelona, et cetera. We get inspiration from them too. And at the stage of course we had an organization needed to carry out all these studies in a very short time. And here I would like to thank a person, a professor staying captain, he made a very excellent leadership and contributed to this studies. And with this IMP, this is in fact an organization, mayor's organization. It has a body inside one of the municipalities commercial firms or companies named BIMTESH. So we inside the BIMTESH, with the contribution of almost 100 academicians and more than 400 technical people, we carried out all scientific and technological decision support needed for the status divide metropolitan plans. And then plans were aiming at the year 2023, which is the establishment of Turkey's 100 birthday. This is going to be. And then again the IMP in fact supported technical support and consultancy for metropolitan municipality in the fields of urban and regional planning, urban design and regeneration, historical heritage management too. And for these studies, we established 14 research and study groups among us, inside us. The process for the planning was carried out like this. And of course we had the strategic plan, which was also prepared from the departments of the several departments of the municipality. And then strategy together with 100,000 scale environmental plans. And meantime we also studied one to 25,000 master plan decisions too. They all run together side by side. And at the end towards the end of 2006, we completed our environmental plan at one 200,000 scale. And then that plan unanimously accepted by the assembly of the municipality. But of course there were some legal issues, some cases are opened in the course against this plan. And then some interruptions we lived together. But anyway, meantime we find out that, of course we were pointing out always that studying İstanbul metropolitan area alone was not at right planning situation or planning thinking. Instead we had to consider planning Istanbul, not only in the borders of the Istanbul, but in the region that Istanbul is taking place. So we had to look at the neighboring cities and neighboring other regions. When we started studying those cities or regions, then we got serious feedbacks to our plans too. Then we had to think about revising our plan again. So that was a real chance for us to make a good revision for our master plan studies too. OK, here are some regional planning studies neighboring us. And then the process feedbacking from region to metropolitan area to 2006 plan. And then the finally ending up with the 2009 plan. OK, visioning Istanbul, of course Istanbul, it has not a single direksiyon commitment. It has a multi-direksiyon commitment in our visions. Istanbul in the future not going to be anymore and heavily industri city. But instead Istanbul should be a finance center, should be a cultural center, should be a tourism center et cetera. And also together with our plan we quite a lot of paid a lot of attention in the sensitivity of the water resources, forest and the ecologic system of Istanbul. And then of course the increase of the quality life or standards of life and the accessibility in transport etc. was important. We tried to find out the solution for all these. And then again this is developed by conserving unikultural nature identity in the light of economic, social and environmental sustainability transformed into information society with improved quality of life. OK, I'll pass this quickly. And then when we come to the objectives of the plan, we can mention about the six main objectives. One is the strengthening the city at the international area. Secondly, pioneered sustainable regional development in Marmara region. And then thirdly, functionally integrate developments pattern into a sustainable forms. And then increase the quality of life, empower metropolitan social capital and then enable restructuring for better urban management. And then according to this plan, we have proposed urban centers. One of the main problem in the Istanbul situation was a single, very big single centered structure. So we had to decentralize this towards the ages of the Istanbul. Linearly not going to the further to the environmental areas, but below parallel to the Marmara Sea together. And then proposed industry zones. Some of them are proposed for rehabilitation areas. Some of them were proposed as the transformation or regeneration areas to be converted to the CDBs and others. And then some of them are of course the organized industrial zones to be filled up or to be developed. And then again, for the first time, we studied logistic zones in these plans and the ports too. And then again, some macro social functions showing up there. And new proposed housing developments areas. And then some of the hotspots projects, I can say one in Kayavasi, there is going to be around 60,000 new housing settlement area going to take place there. And then Cartel project area. That's one of our very challenging project area. That's around 450 hectares area. That's one of the collapsed industrial zones. There is the British architect Hadid's urban design study chosen as the winning project. And then we are developing city plans, application plans according to that urban design projects. And then generally, in our environmental plan or land use decisions, we foreseen that area as the educational, informational and technological development area. So we are now working on this project area too. Okay. Thanks very much. Thank you very much.