Evrim Ulusan, PhD
- Holds an urban planner degree from Middle East Technical University (METU) since 2003
- Holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments department at METU
- Worked as a senior specialist at Ministry of Culture and Tourism for 16 years and resigned in 2020.
- Specialized in cultural heritage management theory and practice.
- Intensely worked on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, including preparation of nomination dossiers, state of conservation reports, periodic reporting, training and awareness raising
- World Heritage Committee expert of Turkey for the years of 2016 and 2017.
- Provide service and consultancy in heritage management planning and World Heritage List nominations
- was a part-time lecturer at Yıldız Technical University for 2022-2023 academic year (Course name: Participatory Cultural Heritage Management)
- Research interests include heritage governance, postmodern planning theory and practice, spatial justice, resilience.
- Member of ICOMOS, ICOM and Chamber of Urban Planners.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Melih ERSOY and Prof. Dr. H. Tarık ŞENGÜL
- Holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments department at METU
- Worked as a senior specialist at Ministry of Culture and Tourism for 16 years and resigned in 2020.
- Specialized in cultural heritage management theory and practice.
- Intensely worked on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, including preparation of nomination dossiers, state of conservation reports, periodic reporting, training and awareness raising
- World Heritage Committee expert of Turkey for the years of 2016 and 2017.
- Provide service and consultancy in heritage management planning and World Heritage List nominations
- was a part-time lecturer at Yıldız Technical University for 2022-2023 academic year (Course name: Participatory Cultural Heritage Management)
- Research interests include heritage governance, postmodern planning theory and practice, spatial justice, resilience.
- Member of ICOMOS, ICOM and Chamber of Urban Planners.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Melih ERSOY and Prof. Dr. H. Tarık ŞENGÜL
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identified either as single properties or conservation areas. Once registered as cultural heritage by the state, development rights on immovable properties are strictly restricted, and the owner is responsible for the building’s maintenance, repair and restoration costs. Since maintenance expenses of a building increase with time, owners of historic buildings eventually face greater financial burdens than most can bear, resulting in the deterioration and decay of historical buildings.
The aim of this paper is to trace the historical development of the state’s
share in restoration of the immovable cultural heritage of the country. The total state budget designated for credits and donations for the owners of such buildings has increased over the years, but its percentage compared to other items of the national budget did not show dramatic change in the last 50 years.
In the paper, the evolution of different financial instruments utilized
by Turkey’s central and local governments for restoration of registered
historical buildings will be presented and critically appraised in terms
of their performance, based on archival research and an empirical study
for calculation of an estimate of financial need for restoration of all
registered historical buildings in Turkey. Finally, a proposal will be made
for developing new financial instruments to enable the preservation of
immovable cultural properties.
The World Heritage Committee will meet for the 40th session in Istanbul, Turkey, from 10th to 20th July 2016. ICOMOS’s Annual General Assembly will also take place in İstanbul from 15th to 21st October 2016. Therefore, prior to these important international meetings that will be held in Turkey, Journal of Urban Studies (IdealKent) has favored having a special focus on “Urban Memory and Urban Conservation” in the 19th and the 20th issues.
International conservation notions and approaches have traveled a long way from 1954 so-called UNESCO Hague Convention3 to the 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL). In this journey, the next destination has always been a shift towards a broader definition of heritage or definition of new heritage types, such as intangible heritage, industrial heritage, modern heritage, cultural landscape and historic urban landscape as the latest. It has not only been the definitions that are subject to change. Problems and threats have been in a process of change as well, not to ignore the arising ones. Adopting a new recommendation on the conservation of historic urban landscapes was thereof the consequence of the need to update international tools and guidelines; to meet a broader understanding for urban heritage resources; to represent a co-management approach of cultural resources and urban development to ensure sustainable conservation of our cities threatened by contemporary global and local challenges such as climate change, global terror, neoliber-al policies, new development and regeneration/renewal schemes, mass tourism, global migration, and so on. The new recommendation was pro-posed by the World Heritage Committee at the 29th session in July 2005 (in Durban, South Africa) (Van Oers, 2007); however, the definitions and approaches in the Recommendation are not only for World Heritage sites. Van Oers, (2007) who has a critical role in the development of the concept, states that these new concepts and approaches stand as international poli-cies for urban conservation in general.
Charters and recommendations are standard setting documents for guiding worldwide policies and practices (Van Oers, 2007). While interna-tional concepts and approaches are fundamental to the conservation of urban memory and urban heritage resources, there may also be distinctive solutions and attitudes being developed in different geographies and cul-tures, depending on and relevant for national or local circumstances. In this context, this special issue aimed to examine the urban conservation discipline and practice through recent concepts, approaches, and challeng-es, while also addressing international, national and local differences in the scope of the main theme.
All articles were peer-reviewed with the exception of two invited open-ing articles intended as prefaces by Emeritus Professor of urban conserva-tion Giorgio Piccinato, Roma Tre University and by Assoc.Prof. Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. We would like to express our deep gratitude for their kind support.
We would also like to remember Dr. Ron Van Oers (2015), who had a valuable role in the international platform on conservation; Prof. Dr. Metin Ahunbay (2014), Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ersen (2014), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Madran (2013), Architect and Journalist Oktay Ekinci (2013), Prof. Dr. İs-met Okyay (2009), Dr. Kani Kuzucular (2007), Prof. Dr. Gönül Tankut (2005), Prof. Dr. Raci Bademli (2003) and other invaluable conservation science people that we lost in the 2000s and had devoted their lives to the conservation of Turkey’s historic heritage resources.
(The rest of Editorial is at the uploaded file. It is written both in Turkish and in English. Turkish version is followed by the English)
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identified either as single properties or conservation areas. Once registered as cultural heritage by the state, development rights on immovable properties are strictly restricted, and the owner is responsible for the building’s maintenance, repair and restoration costs. Since maintenance expenses of a building increase with time, owners of historic buildings eventually face greater financial burdens than most can bear, resulting in the deterioration and decay of historical buildings.
The aim of this paper is to trace the historical development of the state’s
share in restoration of the immovable cultural heritage of the country. The total state budget designated for credits and donations for the owners of such buildings has increased over the years, but its percentage compared to other items of the national budget did not show dramatic change in the last 50 years.
In the paper, the evolution of different financial instruments utilized
by Turkey’s central and local governments for restoration of registered
historical buildings will be presented and critically appraised in terms
of their performance, based on archival research and an empirical study
for calculation of an estimate of financial need for restoration of all
registered historical buildings in Turkey. Finally, a proposal will be made
for developing new financial instruments to enable the preservation of
immovable cultural properties.
The World Heritage Committee will meet for the 40th session in Istanbul, Turkey, from 10th to 20th July 2016. ICOMOS’s Annual General Assembly will also take place in İstanbul from 15th to 21st October 2016. Therefore, prior to these important international meetings that will be held in Turkey, Journal of Urban Studies (IdealKent) has favored having a special focus on “Urban Memory and Urban Conservation” in the 19th and the 20th issues.
International conservation notions and approaches have traveled a long way from 1954 so-called UNESCO Hague Convention3 to the 2011 Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape (HUL). In this journey, the next destination has always been a shift towards a broader definition of heritage or definition of new heritage types, such as intangible heritage, industrial heritage, modern heritage, cultural landscape and historic urban landscape as the latest. It has not only been the definitions that are subject to change. Problems and threats have been in a process of change as well, not to ignore the arising ones. Adopting a new recommendation on the conservation of historic urban landscapes was thereof the consequence of the need to update international tools and guidelines; to meet a broader understanding for urban heritage resources; to represent a co-management approach of cultural resources and urban development to ensure sustainable conservation of our cities threatened by contemporary global and local challenges such as climate change, global terror, neoliber-al policies, new development and regeneration/renewal schemes, mass tourism, global migration, and so on. The new recommendation was pro-posed by the World Heritage Committee at the 29th session in July 2005 (in Durban, South Africa) (Van Oers, 2007); however, the definitions and approaches in the Recommendation are not only for World Heritage sites. Van Oers, (2007) who has a critical role in the development of the concept, states that these new concepts and approaches stand as international poli-cies for urban conservation in general.
Charters and recommendations are standard setting documents for guiding worldwide policies and practices (Van Oers, 2007). While interna-tional concepts and approaches are fundamental to the conservation of urban memory and urban heritage resources, there may also be distinctive solutions and attitudes being developed in different geographies and cul-tures, depending on and relevant for national or local circumstances. In this context, this special issue aimed to examine the urban conservation discipline and practice through recent concepts, approaches, and challeng-es, while also addressing international, national and local differences in the scope of the main theme.
All articles were peer-reviewed with the exception of two invited open-ing articles intended as prefaces by Emeritus Professor of urban conserva-tion Giorgio Piccinato, Roma Tre University and by Assoc.Prof. Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. We would like to express our deep gratitude for their kind support.
We would also like to remember Dr. Ron Van Oers (2015), who had a valuable role in the international platform on conservation; Prof. Dr. Metin Ahunbay (2014), Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ersen (2014), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Madran (2013), Architect and Journalist Oktay Ekinci (2013), Prof. Dr. İs-met Okyay (2009), Dr. Kani Kuzucular (2007), Prof. Dr. Gönül Tankut (2005), Prof. Dr. Raci Bademli (2003) and other invaluable conservation science people that we lost in the 2000s and had devoted their lives to the conservation of Turkey’s historic heritage resources.
(The rest of Editorial is at the uploaded file. It is written both in Turkish and in English. Turkish version is followed by the English)