TY  - JOUR
TI  - Urban protection and renewal
dilemma: İzmir Mezarlıkbaşı
AB  - At the beginning of the 21st century, efforts to preserve cultural heritage in his-
torical settlements is a highly problematic and multi-faceted issue in Turkey. Al-
though conservation legislation dates back to 60 years ago, heritage conservation
has not been internalized and accepted in the wider part of society, and, has not
established a sound political foundation. On the other, however, there is also a
lack of integrated land-use planning and management.
The purpose of this study is to present the difficulties of dealing with the con-
servation, renewal, and regeneration for heritage areas in the historic core of
İzmir, Mezarlıkbaşı-Kemeraltı, as well as to discuss the intrinsic physical qualities,
dynamic characters and diversity of community groups with a view of new spa-
tial agenda. The objective of the study is therefore twofold: 1) documentation of
the physical characteristics and values for understanding the place; 2) to evaluate
incorporating integrated strategic planning and management approach pointing
the need for incorporating, leadership, partnership, integration and inclusion as
a policy guideline for the safeguarding the heritage area. Our findings show that
the Municipality of İzmir has made a significant attempt as TARKEM’s leadership
position, which has succeeded in attracting national and international interest
in Kemeraltı and creating opportunities for the future, but partnership (opera-
tion), management (structure) and inclusion (its processes) still lack. Commu-
nity groups are not seen as part of the planning activities and planning has been
remote, fragmented and exclusively missing an integrated planning management
approach
AU  - AKPINAR, Figen
AU  - TURAN, Mine
AU  - TOKÖZ, Özge Deniz
DO  - 10.5505/itujfa.2021.60863
PY  - 2021
JO  - A|Z ITU Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SN  - 2564-7474
SP  - 443
EP  - 459
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/518654
ER  -