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    A quest for sustainability of cultural heritage sites: The hanlar district of Bursa, Turkey
    (Konya Teknik Üniversitesi, 2019-04-08) Polat, Sibel; Çahantimur, Arzu; Atanur, Gül; Yıldız, H. Özge Tümer; POLAT, SİBEL; ÇAHANTİMUR, ARZU; TÜMER YILDIZ, HİKMET ÖZGE; Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi/Mimarlık Fakültesi/Mimarlık Bölümü.; 0000-0003-4380-0457; 0000-0002-5907-1773; 0000-0002-7755-9238; AAH-2742-2021; KJK-5232-2024 ; H-4326-2013
    Today, many studies have been carried out to support community engagement in planning and urban design processes in Turkey. This study which tries to bring together community engagement and urban design within the framework of sustainability of cultural heritage sites is a part of a scientific research project which aims to create a participative model to develop an urban design guideline for the Hanlar District, a historical commercial district including many inns in the city centre of Bursa, in Turkey. While a series of community engagement techniques were experimented during the project process, the aim of this article is to examine the potential benefits of using educational charrettes as a kind of design charrette to establish a participatory and competitive platform including public, private, voluntary actors and local people in urban design process of heritage sites. It overviews the charrette use in developing adaptive re-use and urban design schemes for the inns and their surrounding public spaces which are not actively used in the Hanlar District which has been a UNESCO world heritage site since 2014, and then highlights the proposals that were developed in terms of the objectives of the Bursa and Cumalikizik Management Plan. Finally, this study presents the usability, suitability and practicability of educational charrettes as a community engagement way in the urban design process of the heritage sites while enabling different actors to create new visions to sustain heritage sites. However, it also emphasizes the need for a participatory and holistic urban design process for the Hanlar District of Bursa including the adaptive re-use strategies for the inns to sustain the district.
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    Community engagement in developing urban design guidance for heritage sites: The case of Bursa, Turkey
    (Urban Planning Inst Republic Slovenia, 2019-12-01) Polat, Sibel; Tümer Yıldız, Hikmet Özge; POLAT, SİBEL; TÜMER YILDIZ, HİKMET ÖZGE; Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi/Mimarlık Fakültesi/Mimarlık Bölümü; 0000-0003-4380-0457; AAH-2233-2021; H-4326-2013
    In recent years, central and local governments have carried out studies to establish a legal administrative infrastructure for urban design and to develop urban design guidance to preserve the identity of historic cities under the pressure of rapid urbanization in Turkey. The main aim of this article is to explain how we implemented a participatory urban design guidance (PUrDeG) model for cultural heritage sites, which was developed as part of a research project. We explain how we used various techniques to engage various actors in preparing urban design guidelines for a cultural heritage site. In addition, the article discusses the importance of community engagement techniques and processes in developing urban design guidance, and the context of guidelines for sustainable conservation of cultural heritage sites with examples from the United Kingdom and Turkey. It then presents a case study conducted in the Hanlar District, a Unesco world heritage site in Bursa, Turkey. The case study includes research on planning decisions, site analysis, a survey of urban residents, in-depth interviews with local artisans, and an urban design workshop with various actors. The main outcomes of this study include a presentation of how to use various community engagement techniques to prepare urban design guidelines for cultural heritage sites in Turkey, an urban design guidance system for Bursa, and a list of recommendations related to urban design guidelines for the Hanlar District and Bursa in the light of UK experience.