AimTexas
  • Home
  • About
  • Services
    • Water & Environment
    • Planning & Economics
    • GIS & IT
    • Industry & Energy
    • Project Development
    • Engineering & Supervising
    • Inspection & Assessment
    • Master Planning
    • Marine & Coastal Engineering
    • Air & Land Transport Network
  • News
  • Career
  • Contact Us
AimTexas
  • Home
  • About
  • Services
    • Water & Environment
    • Planning & Economics
    • GIS & IT
    • Industry & Energy
    • Project Development
    • Engineering & Supervising
    • Inspection & Assessment
    • Master Planning
    • Marine & Coastal Engineering
    • Air & Land Transport Network
  • News
  • Career
  • Contact Us

Blog

February 11, 2018

By: admin

Ankara, Turkey, February 21, 2018

Aim Texas Overseas Management Group has attended a tender for providing consultancy services for Diagnostic and Need Assessment Studies for Selected Municipalities – 1, Reference No.: IB-A1.C1, issued February 07, 2018 with the project ID of P128605.

The ILLER BANK(Borrower) of Turkey has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Sustainable Cities Project (SCP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the recruitment of consultant services to conduct diagnostic and needs assessment studies for the selected Metropolitan Municipalities and their affiliated utilities that will cover the following tasks:
i. Develop/elaborate a sustainable cities framework/approach in line with SCP approach and international standards.
ii. Diagnostic assessment of the selected metropolitan municipalities regarding the developed sustainable cities framework.
iii. Needs assessment to identify planning needs and gaps of the selected metropolitan municipalities and their affiliated utilities in order to determine planning studies/instruments to be financed under Component A of SCP.
iv. Activity Design Study.
v. Preparation of template terms of references for compulsory planning instruments.
Estimated duration of services is six (6) months.
As the urban population has increased, cities have sprawled in Turkey, exceeding their mandated boundaries, and although access to services have increased significantly, quality of services and long-term financial and environmental sustainability remain challenges.

Turkey’s built-up area increased by 53 percent from 2000 to 2013, with the growth of secondary cities contributing disproportionately. While Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir grew at 74 percent, 82 percent, and 71 percent, respectively, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, and Erzurum grew by 263 percent, 253 percent, and 277 percent, respectively.

As cities have grown, they also responded to challenges in access to service delivery. Consequently, access to water is at 99 percent, access to sanitary landfills is at 60 percent, access to sanitation is at 91 percent, and kilometers of urban rail lines have increased from 292 to 477 from 2006 to 2012. However, quality and long-term financial and environmental sustainability of water and sanitation services remain a concern as identified in the 10th Development Plan. In the water sector, only 52 percent of potable water was treated in 2010, nonrevenue water is estimated at approximately 50 percent, and significant efficiency challenges remain in the wastewater sector as a result of operational and technological inefficiencies. In the urban transport sector, expansion of public transport services remains a concern. Even Istanbul and Ankara, which have the highest rates of mass public transit in Turkey, continue to rank at the bottom of the international distribution on mass transit. To address required expansion of coverage and improve quality of service, cities will continue to require large-scale infrastructure investments. However, coherent infrastructure planning and prioritization will be key in addressing the long-term environmental and financial sustainability of these investments and of the cities.

Urban Sprawl

History – Sprawl of Urban Fabric in Istanbul

Posted in News
Previous Post
Next Post

Recent news

Sint Maarten, May 15, 2019

October 5, 2019

Maldives, February 03, 2019

October 3, 2019

Dallas, TX, April 23, 2019 (Sint Maarten)

September 23, 2019

North Macedonia, June 19, 2019

September 19, 2019

Kazakhstan, January 11, 2019

September 11, 2019

World Bank, March 08, 2019

September 8, 2019

Turkey, Ankara, September 09, 2018

September 9, 2018

Kabul, Afghanistan, May 30, 2016

October 30, 2016

Kabul, Afghanistan, February 27, 2016

October 27, 2016

Katmandu, Nepal, June 30, 2015

October 30, 2015

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, February 11, 2015

September 11, 2015

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 03, 2015

September 3, 2015

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, December 19, 2014

October 19, 2014

Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2014

October 7, 2014

Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2014

October 1, 2014

Kabul, Afghanistan, January 2014

September 14, 2014

Kabul, September 2012

October 8, 2012

Baku, Azerbaijan, June, 2013

October 2, 2012

Nakhchivan, May 04, 2020

May 4, 2020
  • May 2020
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • July 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • August 2017
  • April 2017
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • June 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • May 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • October 2012
  • August 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
AimTexas © 2023 All Rights Reserved.

Search