Abstract
The city identity, taking form with pysical, cultural, socio-economical, historical and stylistic factors, carrying peculiar characteristics in each city, formed by the citizens and their lifestyles, constantly developing and reflecting the sustainable urban concept, is a completion of concepts. Urban identity elements, either they are natural or human artifact, are the witnesses of the past and form our cultural heritage. Conserving our cultural heritage without bearing heavy losses, transferring to the future generations are important in terms of social and cultural sustainability concepts and are some of main duties. However, the change in urbanization, population increase, life style due to the social structure and depending on these reasons such as functional, physical and economical obsolescence cause the buildings creating our cultural heritage, witnessing our past and the physical environment consisting of these buildings to alter or to undergo the perishing process. In this context, the aim of the study is the evaluation of preservation and renewal practices done in Ankara Hamamonu province in terms of sustainable urban preservation principles, according to the relevant legislation in force in the context of urban transformation and urban renewal practices donein recent years. Key words: Sustainable preservation, historical city centre, Ankara Hamamonu.
Highlights
IntroductionPreservation is “to protect something from danger and to make certain of external effects”, while in glossary of urban sciences terms, preservation is described as “To assure the cultural assets (monuments, natural site areas etc.)with historical and architectural value placed at some urban regions among destructive, offensive and harmful activities in order to transfer them to future generations” (Keleş, 1998)
The aim of the study is the evaluation of preservation and renewal practices done in Ankara Hamamönü province in terms of sustainable urban preservation principles, according to the relevant legislation in force in the context of urban transformation and urban renewal practices donein recent years
It is targeted to regain the historical places to the city in terms of socio-cultural and economic conditions besides physical preservation
Summary
Preservation is “to protect something from danger and to make certain of external effects”, while in glossary of urban sciences terms, preservation is described as “To assure the cultural assets (monuments, natural site areas etc.)with historical and architectural value placed at some urban regions among destructive, offensive and harmful activities in order to transfer them to future generations” (Keleş, 1998). We can qualify Ankara Hamamönü example, handled in the content of study, as preservation-oriented urban transformation rather than urban preservation. Urban transformation and urban preservation are being perceived as contrary terms. Urban preservation is only a type of intervention of urban transformation
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