ANALYSIS OF FACTORS IMPACTING LAND USE IN TRANSFORMING ISTANBUL HISTORICAL CITY CENTER

Year 2013, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 477 - 492, 01.06.2013

İsmail Hakan Kolcu Vedia Dokmecı

Abstract

Istanbul historical city center is going through a provincial transformation by quick population increase, multi- centered city development, developing tourism and trade feature pressures as well as selection of location for housing.
Provincial transformation is briefly described as; an action plan integrating with the city and urban people, prepared to
increase life quality based on strategic development plan and within the provincial development vision for the nonfunctional,
old and worn provincial pieces unable to fulfill physical, social and economic development dynamics and new
requirements. Objective of this study is to find out factors affecting provincial transformation that are observed in research
district and positive negative effect ratios based on regression analysis. Research district Sultanahmet and surrounding area
located between Divan Yolu Street and Topkapı Palace and Marmara Sea, which is considered among UNESCO Global
Heritage Areas, having intensive cultural assets, transforming pursuant to tourism and trade feature pressure, preserving
most of its authentic housing texture, worn out as well as observed to be a qualified housing location choice of people with
high socio-economic and educational class. It is concluded that the urban transformation resulting from the dynamism in the
historical, physical and socioeconomically structure of the space in the research area is weighted with the accommodation
and commercial place selections, there are influences of the culture asset structure, some part of the functions being in the
place selection and the positive and negative reflections of the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the focal points
on the transformation which is followed on the area and also the land-plot unit price value directs the selections in part

Keywords

Transformation, İstanbul old CBD, land use, regression analysis

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