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Prof. Dr. Beser OKTAY VEHBİ
Eastern Mediterranean University

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Journal article
Published: 19 August 2021 in Sustainability
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According to the ongoing discussions of researchers, practitioners, and international legislation, the prioritization of top-down decision-making processes in public participation is questionable due to their ambiguous outcomes in various contexts associated with the management of cultural heritage. The main aim of this paper is to highlight and identify co-creation as a sustainable and significant bottom-up methodology that has a wide range of applications, especially in the domain of Cultural Heritage Management (CHM). It is presented as an alternative to the already existing, less democratic, and passive public participation decision-making processes. Examining the evolution of the terms and the processes, together with the common aspects and differences between public participation and co-creation is another goal of this paper. Based on these aims and goals, after conducting case study analyses in various contexts and comprehensive theoretical reviews of the international charters and ongoing practices associated with both key terms, “public participation” and “co-creation”, this paper introduces results that have the potential to solve the existing problems in public participation models and frameworks and successfully integrate communities into the CHM decision-making process through the implementation of the co-creation methodology.

ACS Style

Olgica Grcheva; Beser Oktay Vehbi. From Public Participation to Co-Creation in the Cultural Heritage Management Decision-Making Process. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9321 .

AMA Style

Olgica Grcheva, Beser Oktay Vehbi. From Public Participation to Co-Creation in the Cultural Heritage Management Decision-Making Process. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9321.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Olgica Grcheva; Beser Oktay Vehbi. 2021. "From Public Participation to Co-Creation in the Cultural Heritage Management Decision-Making Process." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9321.

Journal article
Published: 10 February 2021 in Sustainability
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It is common for the original use of heritage buildings to become obsolete which in some cases can result in them becoming vacant and subject to deterioration. Adaptive reuse is an essential policy for achieving sustainability as it keeps a continuous building life cycle and avoids building destruction. It is one approach to sustainability where it retains the tangible and intangible values, resilience of the original building materials, and reduces waste and time. The decision-making criteria for compatible new use includes several criteria that affect sustainable development: economic, environment, social, legislative, and architecture. Several Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have been established in order to aid the process of cultural heritage preservation. This research aims to present an assessment model to support the establishment of appropriate new use by employing an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The decision-making software used was Expert Choice 11. The administrative hospital in Kyrenia, Cyprus, was selected as the case study in this research. Using the application of AHP with the participation of different stakeholders (experts and locals), a more compatible use as a community centre is proposed and supported by the research methodology.

ACS Style

Beser Vehbi; Kağan Günçe; Aminreza Iranmanesh. Multi-Criteria Assessment for Defining Compatible New Use: Old Administrative Hospital, Kyrenia, Cyprus. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1922 .

AMA Style

Beser Vehbi, Kağan Günçe, Aminreza Iranmanesh. Multi-Criteria Assessment for Defining Compatible New Use: Old Administrative Hospital, Kyrenia, Cyprus. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1922.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Beser Vehbi; Kağan Günçe; Aminreza Iranmanesh. 2021. "Multi-Criteria Assessment for Defining Compatible New Use: Old Administrative Hospital, Kyrenia, Cyprus." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1922.

Journal article
Published: 02 January 2016 in Journal of Architectural Conservation
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Carob warehouses in the rural areas of Cyprus constitute one of the rare examples of traditional industrial building types that are evidence of a vanishing tradition of agricultural, social and economic life. These warehouses were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and used as part of the carob production and export industry that showed a drastic decline after 1960 and virtually vanished in the following decade, resulting in the dereliction of the warehouses. Today, very few of them are in good condition, some have disappeared, and many are left with major structural damage or have been partially destroyed. In order to contribute to their protection and to add to the existing literature on industrial buildings in rural areas, the present work aims to examine the architectural and structural characteristics of rural carob warehouses in Cyprus. The assessments are based on a model formed through observations noted during the field survey in the northern section of the island where 15 carob warehouses are located mainly on the coast. The model of architectural and structural features of the warehouses includes the recording of alterations, material deterioration and structural damage. The study concludes with an overall approach for the restoration and consolidation of the warehouses employing techniques that follow the principles of international charters. Suggestions are given for promoting the potential of these heritage assets and enabling assessment of their general reuse potentials. It is found that among the 15 existing warehouses three of them have already been restored and the other 12 require restoration.

ACS Style

Beser Oktay Vehbi; Hülya Yuceer; Yonca Hurol. Rural carob warehouses in Cyprus: an assessment of architectural and structural characteristics. Journal of Architectural Conservation 2016, 22, 18 -47.

AMA Style

Beser Oktay Vehbi, Hülya Yuceer, Yonca Hurol. Rural carob warehouses in Cyprus: an assessment of architectural and structural characteristics. Journal of Architectural Conservation. 2016; 22 (1):18-47.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Beser Oktay Vehbi; Hülya Yuceer; Yonca Hurol. 2016. "Rural carob warehouses in Cyprus: an assessment of architectural and structural characteristics." Journal of Architectural Conservation 22, no. 1: 18-47.

Original articles
Published: 28 April 2009 in European Planning Studies
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The main aim of this paper is to propose a model for measuring the sustainability level of historic urban quarters and to indicate an appropriate strategy for their revitalization. Based on this aim, this study first presents the theoretical review on the concept of “revitalization”, and its relationship with sustainability; next, it introduces the characteristics, role, selection process and scaling method of sustainability indicators, which are essential for measuring the level of sustainability. The paper then, as the main contribution of this paper, proposes the model for measuring the level of sustainability in historic urban quarters and determines some proposals to achieve revitalized and sustainable historic urban quarters. Depending on the proposed model, there is a direct relationship between type and the level of obsolescence (revitalization) and the level of sustainability in the physical, economic and social structures of a particular area. Therefore, when the level of sustainability is high in any one of these three structures, it means that the level of obsolescence is low in the same structures of an historic urban quarter. The result of this paper leads us to say that, the level of sustainability is a new (additional) input in the strategic planning process of revitalization and sustainable urban revitalization of historic urban quarters. Finally, the paper concludes with a brief summary on the general arguments of the paper.

ACS Style

Beser Oktay Vehbi; Şebnem Önal Hoşkara. A Model for Measuring the Sustainability Level of Historic Urban Quarters. European Planning Studies 2009, 17, 715 -739.

AMA Style

Beser Oktay Vehbi, Şebnem Önal Hoşkara. A Model for Measuring the Sustainability Level of Historic Urban Quarters. European Planning Studies. 2009; 17 (5):715-739.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Beser Oktay Vehbi; Şebnem Önal Hoşkara. 2009. "A Model for Measuring the Sustainability Level of Historic Urban Quarters." European Planning Studies 17, no. 5: 715-739.