The problems Encountered In Post-Disaster Reconstruction Of Traditional Settlements: The Municipalicty Of İspir Madenköprübaşı Elmalı Neighborhood

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This study examined the socio-economic and socio-cultural features and locations of houses that were rebuilt following the landslide that occurred in the Elmalı neighborhood of Madenköprübaşı, in İspir District.Observations and interviews carried out during the study showed that the new settlement and the houses are planned and modern, which cannot be compared to the settlement and houses in the Old Elmalı Neighborhood. It was also found that the new settlement and the houses fail to meet some social, cultural and economic needs of families and lack some infrastructure opportunities.As in most other rural settlements, the Elmalı neighborhood is economically dependent on agriculture and animal husbandry; The newly constructed houses therefore needed to meet the associated social and cultural needs of residents, and it was not enough them to be planned solely as a modern settlement and constructed to resist natural disasters. Due to the economic, social and cultural shortcomings of the houses and the settlement, most of the families did not settle in the houses and a significant investment of public resources was therefore wasted. The study findings emphasize the need for future reconstruction projects to consider all the social and cultural characteristics of local housing and settlement types, rather than imposing a generic redevelopment strategy.

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Elmalı Neighborhood , Madenköprübaşı , landslide , disaster , disaster houses Turkey

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eastern geographical review