Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Şehir Ve Bölge Planlama Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2023
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: AYŞE BAŞAK AĞIR
Danışman: Zübeyde Müge Akkar Ercan
Özet:
Currently, every settlement, regardless of population size, wants to be part of global networks and, in this context, tends to use the values it has to attract capital. Settlements with historical and cultural heritage are affected by these trends differently. A significant part of the current research says that such heritage-valued areas have lost their values, mainly in the processes of urban renewal, revitalization, and transformation. However, to a lesser extent, this research emphasizes that public participation in planning and design processes is necessary to preserve such values. To conserve a historical site's existing historical and cultural values, it is essential to understand its values. This might enable us to understand multiple values of historical sites from the perspective of different stakeholders, including residents, the working population, visitors, as well as the professionals and the decision-makers of the local conservation policies. Understanding the wide range of the value perception from these stakeholders’ viewpoints may help develop heritage-led regeneration project which can conserve the multiple values of the historical sites. Besides, it can help raise awareness of the local stakeholders towards the sustainable conservation of such values. Connecting stakeholders and understanding their value perception is also critical to attain and keep public participation in conservation practices alive. In other words, it is important to develop bottom-up conservation practices to protect the heritage values of historical sites. The top-down approach to conservation in Turkish cities leads to a lack of public appropriation of the conservation processes and heritage values.
In Turkey, Kütahya has been an important tourist center with its historical and cultural values. Like other cities around the world, she has been affected by global currents. As in other historical cities worldwide, the local authority has carried out many urban renewal, heritage-led regeneration, and transformation projects, especially since the 2000s, to attract more tourists, visitors and investors. All these projects have been implemented with top-down practices, and public participation has been kept limited. This research seeks to understand how different local stakeholders perceive the multiple values of the historic city center of Kütahya.