Financing the Preservation of Historical Buildings in Turkey

2018-1-01
Ulusan, Evrim
Ersoy, Melih
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According to the Turkish legal system, immovable cultural properties are identified either as single properties or conservation areas. Once registered as cultural heritage by the state, development rights on immovable properties are strictly restricted, and the owner is responsible for the building’s maintenance, repair and restoration costs. Since maintenance expenses of a building increase with time, owners of historic buildings eventually face greater financial burdens than most can bear, resulting in the deterioration and decay of historical buildings. The aim of this paper is to trace the historical development of the state’s share in restoration of the immovable cultural heritage of the country. The total state budget designated for credits and donations for the owners of such buildings has increased over the years, but its percentage compared to other items of the national budget did not show dramatic change in the last 50 years. In the paper, the evolution of different financial instruments utilized by Turkey’s central and local governments for restoration of registered historical buildings will be presented and critically appraised in terms of their performance, based on archival research and an empirical study for calculation of an estimate of financial need for restoration of all registered historical buildings in Turkey. Finally, a proposal will be made for developing new financial instruments to enable the preservation of immovable cultural properties.
Preservation finance, Financial instruments, Financial sources, Historical buildings, Immovable cultural properties
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2018104.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50681
Department of Architecture, Article

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E. Ulusan and M. Ersoy, “Financing the Preservation of Historical Buildings in Turkey,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 251–267, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2018104.pdf.
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