RST 508 - Conservation of Historic Environments in Turkey and in the World

Course Objectives

2. To define the fundamental aspects of site conservation; to discuss certain site conservation examples from Turkey and also from around the world; to investigate and evaluate various approaches regarding site conservation.

Course Description

The general and regional characteristics of historic environments in Turkey; analysis of these characteristics on some important examples; discussion and evaluation of the problems and proposals of conservation interventions on selected sites; successful urban conservation examples from important European historic towns like Bologna, Roma, Paris/Le Marais, etc.