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1977

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Medioli, Alfredo
Özkan, süha
Plunz, Richard

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Depending essentially on the periodic chains on the Biosphere almost all functional features or support systems in human cultures are sustained in the form of cycles. The periods of these cycles are fundamentally determined by the processes that produce them. In rural settlements, as an effect of the "openness" or "closedness" of the (community,) as far as the required inputs to maintain the system is concerned, the community is classified to be self-supporting or dependant. The cycles to support any rural community can be outlined as the cycles of water, food and various forms of energy. Apart from these physical chains there can be many other cycles having direct or indirect relationships with the other processes needed for the survival of the community as an integrated system. In most of the traditional agrarian cultures almost all of these cycles are completed within the geographic and social context of those communities themselves. At instances when the cycles are completed with considerable inputs from outside the communal boundaries, the cycles are observed to be broken thus become intermittent. The intermittences bring new objects and sources into the system. As a consequence of these, various physical and cultural deformities are experienced as foreign issues. Owing to her strong and definite morphological boundaries,Bodrum Peninsula protected the closed system characteristics until recently. Especially the limited and scarce water and energy resources, dictated the people to obey the absolute rules of the cyclic natural processes. They have made use of these cycles with an appropriate technology to maximise their benefits in terms of forces and energy resources. On the Peninsula water and grain cycles are among the most important; merely because they form the backbone of the inhabitants' physical existence. The grain cycle and related vernacular technology utilised at various steps are noteworthy.

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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/1977/cilt03/sayi_1/39-62.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51321

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