How to achieve sustainable conservation in the historic housing neighbourhoods of Istanbul

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2010-07-15

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Akkar Ercan, Zübeyde Müge

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The launch of several conservation and regeneration initiatives in the deprived historic quarters of Istanbul raises the question of how far these recent endeavours have achieved sustainable solutions responsive to the historic environment and the fundamental elements of the social environments. This paper aims to address this question by setting out a relationship between sustainability, community needs and conservation. Based on the premise that conservation and regeneration strategies, if they find the ways of reconciling the needs, aspirations and concerns of local communities, will lead to more equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems historic quarters face, it examines the recent European Union funded conservation-led regeneration initiative in Fener and Balat, a declining neighbourhood located in the Historic Peninsula and mainly inhabited by the poor, vulnerable immigrants. After highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the initiative, the paper underlines the key principles for the future initiatives to achieve sustainable conservation in deprived historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70709
https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/iphs/issue/view/466/VOLUME%202

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14th International Planning History Society (IPHS) Conference

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Department of City and Regional Planning, Conference / Seminar

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Z. M. Akkar Ercan, “How to achieve sustainable conservation in the historic housing neighbourhoods of Istanbul,” 12–15 July 2010 Taşkışla Istanbul, Turkey, 2010, vol. 2, p. 265, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/70709.