Ozbek, Oguz2020-03-262020-03-2620121300-1795https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/28259In ensuring the efficiency of the state's intervention (planning) for the creation of natural and built environment for developmental goals, different ways of labeling regional area lead to differences in terms of the performance of planning. This paper examines the efficiency of spatial development strategies in the administrative regions within a framework of the debate on functional versus normative regions. In Turkey, the efforts for the introduction of new implementation tools of spatial planning and redefinition of spatial planning hierarchy in the early 2000s made prominent the importance of sub-national scale. The efforts for socio-economic development gained a normative character through recent provincial development plans. The paper attempts to analyze the organic relationship between the definition problem of regional space and the efficiency of regional implementation tools under the topics of the classification and labeling of regional space and the normative tradition of planning in Turkey.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessRegional developmentnormative regionfunctional regionprovincial development planningArticle453129154WOS:000310822600006Q4