ADAPTING TO ABANDONMENT: SUSTAINABILITY OF DEPOPULATED HISTORIC RURAL LANDSCAPES, THE CASE OF NALLIDERE

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Historic rural landscapes are the phenomenon shaped the reciprocal interaction between human and nature, containing cultural, natural, social, economic as well as built environment which are the result of this interaction. Their formation and transformation depend on three factors; time that makes landscape ‘historic’ as memory and knowledge vector, people as connective contributor of the traits of ‘rural’, nature as stage of the ‘landscape’. These interrelations create local tangible and intangible characteristics and values related to concepts like local identity, cultural diversity, local production, community integrity and traditions making historic rural landscapes important heritage places. However, historic rural landscapes are facing challenges and forces of changing world that drives them to lose their senses of place, identities and distinctiveness. They encounter forces that threatens the interrelations between people and place, human and nature, which were the bonds between them had been the constituents in the first place. Although the interest towards rural heritage conservation is a trending topic recently in conservation field, historic rural landscapes are being abandoned and derelict. This depopulation process is seen in rural areas all over the world and abandonment became an inevitable part of natural life cycle of them. Conserving historic rural landscape within this context became an important and challenging issue. Therefore, this thesis aims to develop an understanding towards conservation of landscapes that are abandoned or at the verge of abandonement. Nallıhan, Nallıdere village is chosen as the case as historic rural landscape which had minor changes in built environment but major changes in its social structure and natural environment under variable driving forces. The research covers literature research on conceptual and methodological framework and field survey focusing physical and social characteristics.

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kırsal miras, terkedilmişlik, nallıdere, nallıhan, kültürel miras, rural heritage, cultural heritage, abandonment, kırsal mirasın sürdürülebilirliği, sustainability of cultural heritage

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B. Atamtürk, “ADAPTING TO ABANDONMENT: SUSTAINABILITY OF DEPOPULATED HISTORIC RURAL LANDSCAPES, THE CASE OF NALLIDERE,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.