Abstract :
Urbanization became a reality with industrial revolution emerged in 1950’s and this continued with appearing new cities in Turkey. Available cities have been influenced from this process in terms of population, industry, growing in specific area and creating business and trade employment opportunities. However, this rapid process has not only basically changed the functional structure of the city, but also caused the low quality house, crooked urbanization, environmental problems, air pollution, industrial waste and unemployment problems. In this regard, since the phenomena of urban and urbanization has not been known well in cities like Batman which is shaped on the base of petroleum as the basic energy resource of modern world, developed rapidly and changed, the structural problems in social, economic, cultural and political areas have been emerged. This study investigates both how the city of Batman whose population 4713 in the census of 1955 as a small town has been converted from a city in the urbanization process from the view of her functional characteristics in this time period and spatial changing. There is no doubt that the influence of social- economic and social- cultural problems aroused from the rapid changing on the city and the position of Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) in this process are also discussed.
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Batman City , TPAO , urbanization , urban life , Iluh
