Rehabilitation examples of historical street patterns in Izmir as the local identity searches

• Autores: Mine Tanaç Zeren
• Localización: IX Congreso Internacional de Rehabilitación del Patrimonio Arquitectónico y Edificación: (9. 2008. Sevilla), Vol. 3, 2008, ISBN 978846123459z, págs. 123-128
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At the broadest level, the historical and cultural heritage belongs to all people. We each have a right and responsibility to understand, appreciate and conserve its universal values. Our past is the most important resource in creating our future and, leads us to integrate our cultural identities with our new living environments. Obviously the cultural and historical values that one cultural landscape or city owns, form the local identity of that settlement.

    Izmir has been a cosmopolite-character city; until the declaration of the republic in Turkey, the ethnic groups of Ottomans, Greeks, Armenians, Jews and so many Europeans lived here and revaluated the characteristic of the city. These very different 5 ethnic groups plotted the territory into five parts and established their own way of life with their characteristic houses, markets and religious buildings such as mosques, churches, and synagogues. These historical and cultural values, which form the local identity of the town, are waiting to be carried out to the future generations.

    This paper will deal with the current challenges for conservation practice in Turkey, through introducing the effects of the recent amendment on cultural heritage law and the impact of the EU integration process, and examine some major promising conservation and renovation, rehabilitation projects continuing in Izmir the third biggest city of Turkey for which local solutions are being devised for problems of global context.