MERT NEZIH RIFAIOGLU, NERİMAN ŞAHİN GÜÇHAN

Property rights as a source for ıdentifying and conserving the spirit of place

Kentsel koruma disiplini yerin ruhunun korunması üzerine odaklanmakta ve yerin ruhu kavramı tarihi kentsel bağlamı meydana getiren soyut ve somut tüm değerlerin birlikteliği ile tanımlamaktadır. Fenomenolojik bir olgu olan yerin ruhu kavramının kentsel koruma disiplininde tanımlanması ve korunması beraberinde yeni soruları ve araştırma konularını koruma gündemine getirmektedir. Kentsel ölçekte korunması gereken değerlerin tespitinde yerin ruhunu oluşturan parametrelerin tanımlanmasında kullanılacak kaynakların neler olabileceği henüz netleşmemiş önemli bir çalışma konusudur. Bu çalışma öncelikli olarak yerin ruhu kavramının kuramsal çerçevesini kent biçim çalışmaları, fenomenolojik araştırmalar ve kentsel koruma çalışmaları ışığında inceleyip tanımlayacaktır. Ardından, ilk olarak bu çalışmada mülkiyet haklarının yerin ruhunun tanımlanmasına yönelik kaynak olarak kullanımı sorgulanacaktır. Bu çalışmada mülkiyet haklarının birinci derece güvenilir kaynak olarak tarihi kentsel bağlamı oluşturan somut ve soyut değerlerin birlikte korunmasına katkı sağlayabileceği vurgulanmaktadır.

Mülkiyet haklarının yerin ruhunun tanımlanması ve korunması için kaynak olarak kullanılması

Urban conservation has recently been held to possess a wide perspective for explicitly identifying and assessing the combination of tangible and intangible values of historic urban contexts, and implicitly defining and conserving authenticity, local identity and spirit of place through developments in assessment of values. This new way of understanding and appreciating historic urban context raises new questions forthe urban conservation discipline. Discourses focus on the importance of developing reliable sources for investigating authenticity, identity and spirit of place in historic urban contexts. This paper outlines a theoretical approach to the spirit of place and proposes a new source; property rights as a contribution to the theory and practice of identifying and conserving the spirit of place through exploring human experiences, and as a way of forming, designing and constructing the urban form.

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