The new face of urban transformation: Fener-Balat example

Abstract

Cities have been subject to deterioration due to changing physical conditions, changing socio-cultural habits and economic reasons. These deteriorations can sometimes occur in the urban fabric and sometimes in all components that make up the city. Deteriorations in the city cause the areas in the city centers to deteriorate physically, lose their quality and become derelict areas. Urban transformation applications are required to prevent this situation. In this context, urban transformation applications can be explained as the restoration of deteriorated areas to the city together with the right policies in a way that is suitable for the urban fabric and meets the socio-cultural needs of the people living in the region. The purpose of this research is to examine the urban planning model applications that are compatible with the principles of new urbanism; on the neighborhood-district scale, through the example of Fener Balat District. The basic elements of the New Urbanism Movement and the second scale of the Movement are neighborhood, district and corridor. Neighborhoods are urbanized areas that are a balanced mixture of people's daily lives, districts are areas dominated by a single activity and corridors are areas that connect or separate neighborhoods and districts. The principles see these three levels as the basic elements of development. Through these levels, New Urbanism is the resolution of conflicts between traditional urbanism principles, traditional urban form and modern institutions and technological needs. This research is the examination of urban planning model applications that overlap with the basic principles of new urbanism through the example of Fener Balat, a historical and organic settlement area.