Urban and Regional Planning

Special Issue

Sustainable Urban Identity

  • Submission Deadline: 31 October 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Demet Gülhan
About This Special Issue
The most basic feature which ensures sustainability for the cities is the transmitting capacity of their historical-cultural-natural- esthetical values, developed throughout the history and provides their identity, to the future generations.
Most of the cities, having historical-cultural-natural-esthetical values, in Turkey, are started to lose their original identity because of the ideology ignoring these qualities and the wrong decisions on the zoning of application plans. Finally, the cities in our country are increasingly started to “similar to each other”.
According to author the increase in the number of cities which have no identity is accepted as the main cause of unsustainable environment and the city. To sustain the cities having urban identity will be the main concern of this article and it is attempted to propose some recommendations for the continuity of their “identity”.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Environmental Problems
  2. Sustainability
  3. Urban Identity
  4. Urban Planning
  5. Tangible Heritage
  6. Untangible Heritage
Lead Guest Editor
  • Demet Gülhan

    İller Bankası Anonim Şirketi, İzmir Bölge Müdürlüğü, İzmir, Turkey

Guest Editors
  • Vasco Barbosa

    Associate professor, Universidad La Sabana, Urban Planning and Territory Research Group, Porto, Portugal

  • Hassan Khalili Zonouz

    Department of Architectural Theories and Conservation, Faculty of Architecture, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan