Silhouette Study Through Management Plans in World Heritage Sites

Abstract

The protection and sustainability of heritage sites in today's cities is an important issue in our country as well as allover the world, and it is a big problem to protect and manage these areas to the future. In this direction, sitemanagement plans prepared for heritage sites are of great importance. High or incorrect construction has becomeone of the most important problems of many world heritage sites and threatens the original silhouettes, vantagepoints and urban panoramas of cities, causing these values to lose their meaning and importance over time. For thisreason, many cities, areas or structures of important cultural heritage are removed from the UNESCO World HeritageList or included in the List of World Heritage in Danger. The issue of preserving the silhouette is an important issuethat needs to be addressed in Turkey, where the assets worth protecting are unique in number and value. In thisstudy; In order to determine whether studies have been carried out to preserve the original features such as generalappearance, silhouette, and scenic points that contribute to the Outstanding Universal Value of heritage sites,content has been scanned with the keywords "silhouette", "landscape" and "view".