@article{2013,title={METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITIES IN TERMS OF ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY},abstractNode={Although most of the world population have lived in the rural areas during the history, cities have been the settlements which show development rapidly in terms of size and numerics after the industrial revolution. Cities that state the biggest settlements for settlement geography are one of the indicators of the country development and civilization. One of the reflections of Urban Revolution is increasing of the metropolitan cities together with population. However, after a while, it has been come across some problems related to management of metropolitan cities. As all over the world, the main reason of the need for a separate management model in metropolitans in Turkey is quite the growth of cities and urbanization process. While almost the 50 per cent of the world’s population which is 7 billion were living in urban areas in 2012, it is expecting that the rate will be approximately 60 per cent in 2030. Big city number was just 2 in 1927 in Turkey, it has reached to 149 in 2011. Increase of metropolitian city number has started with Istanbul in 1950. It has reached 15 in 1990, and after that reached 19 in 2012. Metropolitan management process that began in 1982 has reached 29 metropolitans until 2012. The metropolitan municipalities are still dealing with the problems as legal, administrative, organizational and resource use despite the numerical growth. Although it is necessary special arrangements for metropolitan governments, these arrangements must ensure ease of service delivery quality and simplicity. It should be placed increases the locality and given control of the mitigating factors in the model.},author={Güzin KANTÜRK YİĞİT-- Taşkın DENİZ},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}