Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Leyla Mirjam Erol
Danışman: ZÜBEYDE MÜGE AKKAR ERCAN
Özet:The current character and historic context of a place is defined by the socio-economic conditions from its past. Archeological heritage - described as part of the material heritage comprising all vestiges of human existence by ICOMOS - transmit messages from the development process of the city and gives people a sense of place. For human beings, there is a close relationship between the presence of historical traces in the urban daily life and defining identity which defines a trans-disciplinary research with urban planning and design, conservation, societal and historical backgrounds. This study aims to consider the dilemma of the loss in the societal value defined by the daily practice depending upon the priority in the conservation of the historic value. A conservation plan defining the archaeological site as a place with clearly designated borders and considering the area as an inactive, non-living aesthetic, cultural and spiritual item causes either deterioration or turns it into a death place for inhabitants - museumization. This thesis discusses the reasons to conserve heritage within the rhythm of the city and urban design as a tool to (re)produce the historical value in daily life practices by employing Ayasuluk Hill in Selçuk, Izmir as a case study. It reveals the roles Ayasuluk Hill has played in the urban setting and daily life of Selçuk. This research also identifies citizen perspectives, which give clues about how the value of the historical artifacts defined by urban daily practices articulate with social value within a historical background and evolving conservation strategy for the archaeological site. The research comes to the conclusion that the conservation of heritage should not demarcate and isolate the historic cultural artifact(s) from the physical and social environments that formed its current and evolving state. The heritage becomes what it is, owing to the interrelation between the different time zones it has encountered. Heritage is a product of society and has to be accessed, used and (re)valued by the people it was produced in order to retain the values attributed to it. It also underlines the possible urban planning and design perspectives to be used to this purpose.