TY  - JOUR
TI  - Morphological Structures of Historical Turkish Cities
AB  - In this study, morphological structures of the traditional fabrics of citiesin Turkey, which have been shaped under the influence of variousdifferent cultures and geographical and climatic conditions in thehistorical process are presented via a mathematical interpretation. Inthis scope, spatial configuration and morphological structures of thehistorical cores of a total of fourteen cities selected from the sevengeographical regions of Turkey, two cities from each (from the MarmaraRegion, Edirne and Bursa; from the Black Sea Region, Kastamonu andTrabzon; from the Central Anatolia Region, Sivas and Kayseri; from theEastern Anatolia Region, Kars and Erzurum; from the Aegean Region,Muğla and Kütahya; from the South Eastern Anatolia Region, Urfa,Mardin and lastly from the Mediterranean Region, Tarsus and Antakya)region were analyzed comparatively using the Space Syntax method. Inthis method, the cities were analyzed in three main categories usingeleven different parameters. These categories are convex space, axialspace and syntactic space. Convex space analyzes were made using theparamters of convex articulation, convex deformation of the grid, gridconvexity and convex ringness; axial space analyses were made using theparamters of axial articulation, axial integration of convex space, gridaxiality and axial ringness; finally, syntactic space analyses were madeusing the parameters of integration, intelligibility and synergy. In conclusion, it could be said that historical fabrics of the cities in Turkeyhave synchronous structures, manifest regular reflections, have organicsystems compared with the grid systems, and constitute higherintellibility and synergy.
AU  - Topcu, Mehmet
DO  - 10.15320/ICONARP.2019.86
PY  - 2019
JO  - ICONARP International Journal Of Architecture And Planning
VL  - 7
IS  - Özel Sayı
SN  - 2147-9380
SP  - 212
EP  - 239
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/376086
ER  -