Urban Pressure on The Historical Structure of Ordu City, The Case of The Historical Site

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All cities shape with a long historical background. Urban gain value with its experiences, its cultural structure and its social heritage during this long time. Modern urban contain the background in the heart of urban. The historical core of urban is both first place of the urban and its most old structure. The urban is understood, known and read with its historical core. The historical core of urban has common past, ancestry and tradition of all citizen. The historical core has a small area in the cities rapidly expanding. It shows that different from generally with structure and existence of it. Both respect to roots, worry to past and enthusiasm to nostalgia provide to protect of historical structure. Samples of the historical places in the cities usually are used either completely or partly in balance of protection and use as open-air museums. Besides pressure of the urban structure and systems on the historical structure are a problem and fact of the modern cities. In this study, the pressure of urban structure was examined on Historical Site in Ordu City center. Purpose of the study is to draw attention to historical structure of Ordu City and to call for remove to the factor of urban pressure. Thus, the purpose is also to contribute to continuity of historical urban core. In this context, examination and observation in the historical site were done and, variety and size of pressure were confirmed. Protection and restoration works in the study area also were examined and, it was made suggestions to ensure the balance of protection and use.

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Historical urban core , Urban heritage , Ordu city , Urban image , Urban culture

Erciyes University Journal Of The Institute Of Science an‎d Technology

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Erciyes University Journal Of The Institute Of Science an‎d Technology