title: Planning As A Tool For Modernization In Turkey: The Case Of Hermann Jansen’s Plan For Mersin
abstract: Early 20th century urban development plans and regulations as the culmination of the efforts made for the modernization of the cities constitute a special and substantive domain of focus for the historical analysis of cities in terms of understanding the nature and objectives of planning today. Yet, except for big cities such as Ankara, stanbul, zmir, Adana and Bursa, most of the cities in Turkey are not studied in depth within such a context. Unfortunately, those studies conducted for both big 
journal: METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture