@article{2017,title={EVALUATION OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN PRIORITIES IN METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITIES’ STRATEGIC PLANS IN TERMS OF EUROPEAN UNION POLICIES},abstractNode={There has been great transformation on urban development worldwide. Among the main factors of this transformation are global competition and sustainable development. In general, although globalization has become effective on various topics, specifically it can be said that it is effective particularly on sustainable development and global competition of cities. If the cities can develop various sustainable development policies special for themselves, they could become livable cities and gain development. After 2000s, with the speeding up of Turkey’s alignment process with the EU, it is known that some reforms have been made both for the development of local administrations in accordance with the criteria owned by the local administrations in Europe and in the world. In this context, most of the Turkish local administration laws have been renewed and strategic management has been regulated in the laws. In this sense in the study, firstly the terms of sustainable development and sustainable urban and EU policies in this area will be studied, then strategic management and planning will be mentioned, finally, by studying some selected metropolitan municipalities’ strategic plans, priorities of constructing sustainable urbans in the plans will be identified and evaluated.},author={Sühal ŞEMŞİT-- Ahmet UÇAR - İsmail BAŞARAN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}