TY - JOUR TT - Strategies on Sustainability of Historical and Cultural Heritage in Amasra, Turkey AU - Çelikyay, Selma PY - 2016 DA - August JF - International Journal of Cultural and Social Studies (IntJCSS) JO - IntJCSS PB - Mutlu TÜRKMEN WT - DergiPark SN - 2458-9381 SP - 104 EP - 116 VL - 2 IS - Special Issue 1 KW - Amasra KW - conservation-planning-urban design KW - historical and cultural heritage KW - sustainability N2 - In our country, historical settlements, in which several civilizations lived in different historical periods, are spatial evidences transmitting from past social, economic and cultural characteristics to today. In the context of sustainability, in order to preserve and transmit of our own historical and cultural heritage to the future generations, it is essential that historical environments should be renovated in regard to the needs of today’s generation, should be re- functioned, and should be taken into account from protection-renovation-development principles point of view. In this paper, urban policy approaches, planning and urban design strategies on sustainability of historical, cultural and natural heritage in Amasra, and an urban design case study have been presented. A 3000 year old settlement, Amasra was added to the UNESCO list, as a candidate, due to the fortifications built in Genoese period. Therefore, sustainability strategies regarding to Amasra have gained more significance CR - Erkan, Y K. (2011). Urban regeneration projects in İstanbul and documentary value. ITU A/Z (1): 117-128. CR - Güneş, G. (2011). Korunan alanların yönetiminde yeni bir yaklaşım: katılımcı yönetim planları. Ekonomi Bilimleri Dergisi. ISSN: 1309-8020 (Online), 3(1): 47-57. CR - Güngör, F. (2014). Private Photograpy Archieve CR - Sakaoğlu, N. (1999). Çeşm-i Cihan Amasra, Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, ISBN: 975-7306-49-5. CR - UNESCO (2015). Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage CR - Convention, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Web Resources http://www.amasra.bel.tr/amasra.html UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/intjcss/issue//272502 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/253525 ER -