Understanding The Character and Assessing The Significance of o Modern Town as a Basis for Its Conservation: Atça, Aydin

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2024-5

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Mutluay Bilgiç, Ayşegül

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The thesis aims to understand the character and assess the cultural significance of Atça in Aydın, which is a town created during the early Republican period of the Turkish Republic with the idea of ‘modernization’. Atça is unique not only due to its modern urban planning but also because of when this plan was implemented. The Atça town plan was developed in 1924 and executed in 1926, just a couple of years after the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Alongside its urban plan, Atça embodies the ideas of the Turkish revolution and aims to reconstruct a modern Turkish society, as reflected in its buildings and places. Atça can serve as an important tool for understanding the Republican vision due to its significance as part of the collective memory of the Turkish Republic. Atça’s plan and structure have remained largely intact to date. As such, studying it will help understand and analyze the various styles, ideologies, and the spirit of republican architecture from the early 20th century to the Early and Late Republican periods in Turkiye. To achieve this goal, archival and literature searches, field surveys, documentation of physical entities, and analysis of historical development are conducted. The urban planning of the town, along with selected buildings representing the time periods in which they were built, are analyzed. The cultural significance of Atça and its components, which define the character of this modern town, are determined in terms of their physical and socio-cultural values.

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character of modern towns, urban and architectural heritage of the early Republican period, cultural significance, value assessment, Atça, Atca

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109825

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis