Historical-Geographical and Procedural Typological Approach in Urban Renewal: As a Case Louroujina, Northern Cyprus

Abstract

The city is observed and shaped by the development and transformation of its dynamics during the process. Urban morphologies research; analyze the transformation and formation of physical forms of cities in the historical process and transformation. Morphological studies are examined from different perspectives in many countries in a wide range and are spreading to different geographies day by day. English School, one of the pioneers of these studies, MRG Conzen examines morphology through historical-geographical perspective, while Italian school S. Muratori evaluates morphology through typological processes point of view. MRG Conzen, who started to examine morphology at macro-scale in planning processes, and JWR Whitehand, MP Conzen, and M. Bark, who had a great influence on the development of these theories, examined urban morphology in the context of (a) town plan, (b) townscape, and (c) fringe belts by the means of planning level. On the other hand, S. Muratori and his continuation G.F. Cannigia, who examine microscale morphology from an architectural point of view, advance urban morphology within the scope of (a) buildings, (b) urban tissue, and (c) urban organism. The studies created by these two schools also have an important place in the discussion of rehabilitation and protection plans on theory. Suggestions and solutions for the practical application of theory, which is being discussed today, are actually examples of the practical analysis of these studies. In this context, the aim of this study is to examine and put into practice the morphological analysis methods, which are considered together with the architectural scale theories and practices, starting from historical-geographical approach within the scope of planning scale and typological procedural approach on rehabilitation and renewal projects. While doing all this, it is to examine the role of local users, NGOs, governmental bodies, and municipalities (local bodies) at every stage of these projects and the place of their inclusion in the project in practice. The results of this research will lead both the planners and architects in rehabilitation and renovation projects, by creating a basis for the method, and how the method will be analyzed in terms of morphology in future studies and its reflections on practice.