21st century sustainable urban conservation: a multi-dimensional conceptual framework

Abstract eng:
Many countries have long established concepts of urban conservation, which are the basis of the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and conservation areas. Since the early 1990s these specialised concepts have been increasingly integrated with evolving concepts of sustainable urban regeneration, as governments have embraced the goal of planning for sustainable urban development. Most recently concepts of sustainable urban conservation are developing a low carbon dimension. This dynamic process is conceptualised as progress towards sustainable urban conservation and is elaborated by reference to English experience. The paper then applies this conceptual framework to analyse the evolution of urban conservation in Turkey, with particular reference to the Istanbul Historic Peninsula Conservation Area with its World Heritage Sites (WHS), The paper concludes that this conceptual and policy dynamic has the potential to evolve into sustainable urban conservation which delivers a variable mix of social, economic and environmental outcomes, but Turkey face the need to develop an embryonic climate mitigation dimension which has to be developed alongside an earthquake mitigation dimension.

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