A neighborhood is the lowest geographical region of a local government in which the citizens live. Neighborhood provides a kind of environment for the people that they become more socialized in, beside that it plays an essential role on constitution of an administrative relationship between citizen and state. Neighborhood and it’s administration has a significant role in Ottoman-Turkish state lore. As a matter of fact that this local administrative structure, that has some deep roots on the society in terms of it’s history and tradition functioning as a governmental body, has started to lost it’s importance by stages in the recent times In particular, with the establishmant of metropolises and huge neighborhoods, this smallest administrative bodies have turned into an unsuitable means that no longer provide any expected utulity for the societies. The neglection of the promotion of their legal bases contributes the process that neighborhoods lose their significant. In this study, initially historical development and origin of the neighborhood and it’s administration will be analyzed, then relevant legal provisions in Turkey and national and international studies in this scope will be examined. At the last phase with regard to the advancement of neighborhood and it’s administration some recommendations is going to be presented.