Cultural Heritage Conservation in Traditional Environments: Case of Mustafapaşa (Sinasos), Turkey

Abstract

Traditional settlements which have to be conserved and sustained due to their cultural, social, economic, archaeological and aesthetic values contribute much to perceptibility of cities by transferring the emotion, thought, social life and background of the time when established. Since different cultures coincide, leading to a variety and this is reflected in the space, Turkey has a rich, cultural and natural heritage together. Mustafapaşa (Sinasos) is an authentic settlement with its spatial characteristics shaped by this rich culture in Turkey. This study aims to contribute to transfer cultural heritage to next generations with suggestions relating to conservation of planning experiences on spatial characteristics deriving from Mustafapaşa (Sinasos)’s natural and cultural heritage values. In this regard, spatial characteristics and authentic identity values are defined in the study in the first part, and then in the following, evaluation of conservation of cultural heritage by giving the details of planning and implementation experiences for conservation.