This paper aims to describe consequences of cultural tourism for sustainability of rural architectural heritage, forming traditional identity of three villages, named as Misi, Gölyazı, and Tirilye, in Bursa. Before making a detailed assessment, it is better to give brief information about legalization concerning relation in between tourism and rural architectural heritage. Afterwards, the common values of selected case studies are given while also evaluating the problems and threats on their sustainability. It concludes with recommendations defining what can be done to conserve and reuse rural architectural heritage in villages of a historic city while preventing and improving them against touristic demands. Hence, this study is essential as investigating the challenges in conservation of rural areas in City of Bursa, one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) in Turkey, while revealing rise of touristic activities together with increasing interest and public awareness in its architectural and natural heritage.

City walls have played a significant role in the history of many cities in both Europe and Anatolia in the Middle Ages. Following the development of war technology, the city walls lost their importance as defensive structures, which led to changes in the urban patterns of walled cities. In the case of Istanbul, the city walls began to lose their defensive role after the Ottoman takeover of the city in the fifteenth century. However, the walls have continued to play new roles beyond defense, such as forming the city's physical, legal, and fiscal boundaries. The Ottoman authorities repaired and conserved the city walls in line with their changing roles, values and meaning for the city. Nevertheless, the city walls in Istanbul were damaged by earthquakes, city fires and particularly urban planning practices in the nineteenth century, as was the case in many walled cities. This paper discusses the intertwined history of preservation and demolition of the city walls by analyzing a cost estimate, dated 1894 and located in the Ottoman State Archives, which was prepared by the modernizing administration of the Ottoman State for the repairs of the Istanbul Land Walls.

The city of Bursa has a multi-cultural background and hosts a diverse architectural heritage inherited from the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Republican periods. A lost architectural and urban heritage of the city is the Bursa Mevlevi Lodge, which was built between the 17th and 19th centuries. After all the dervish lodges were closed by a law enacted in 1925, Bursa Mevlevi Lodge lost its original function, too. The complex was used for public, residential, and religious purposes until it was demolished in the 1950s due to neglect and abandonment and lost its place in urban memory. Recently, the complex was reconstructed in 2023 and re-functioned as a museum related to Mevlevi culture and Semahane. This article aims to analyze the history and architecture of the complex in the context of Mevlevi culture and Ottoman Mevlevi Lodge architecture. In conclusion, the article reveals that the authenticity of the complex is that it is shaped around the Semahane and identifies its tangible and intangible values and cultural significance in terms of urban history. The article also discusses the justification of the reconstruction as “a controversial heritage conservation method” and the concept of authenticity in the context of contemporary architectural conservation theory.

Istanbul Historic Peninsula hosts diverse cultural heritage values that represent overlapping cultural layers lasting from the Ancient Greek city of Byzantion to the present city. This study examines the contribution of cultural landscape and historic urban landscape approaches to the conservation of heritage values in the Istanbul Historic Peninsula. Two of four UNESCO World Heritage sites, Hagia Sophia and Istanbul Land Walls are selected as case studies that are the architectural and urban scale components of the city’s image. This study aims to attribute to the world heritage sites of Hagia Sophia and Land Walls, which face the risk of loss of authenticity, integrity and outstanding universal value, the concept of cultural landscape, which enables the holistic and sustainable protection of the values and components of these sites. This study reveals the changing and continuing values of which are overlapped on a monument and a site.

Endüstri mirası alanlarının kültürel miras değerlerinin kapsamlı şekilde değerlendirilmesi, onların korunması için çok önemlidir. Bu çalışma, Bursa'da 14. yüzyıldan 20. yüzyılın ortalarına kadar şehrin ipek üretimindeki tarihsel önemini yansıtan önemli bir endüstri mirası örneği olan Turgut Yılmazipek (Romangalle) İpek Fabrikasına odaklanmaktadır. Amaç, fabrikanın kültürel miras değerlerini araştırarak, mimari, kentsel, sosyal ve ekonomik önemini vurgulamaktır. Kapsam, fabrikanın yapıları, peyzajı, tarihi bağlamı ve gerekli koruma stratejilerini içermektedir. Yöntem, fabrikanın yapılarının ve tarihi bağlamının belgelenmesi, analizi ve değerlendirilmesini içermektedir. Sonuç olarak, fabrikanın Bursa'nın endüstriyel tarihindeki rolü ve kentin tarihi ve kültürel peyzajına katkısını vurgulamaktadır. Bu makale ayrıca fabrika yerleşkesinin sürdürülebilir kullanımı ve modern kentsel çevreyle bütünleşmesini sağlamak için yeni işlevler önermektedir. Turgut Yılmazipek (Romangalle) İpek Fabrikası yerleşkesi, Bursa'nın endüstri mirasının bütünlüğünü korumuş önemli bir bileşeni olarak öne çıkmakta ve çeşitli tarihi dönemler boyunca evrimini sergilemektedir. Bu çalışmada, bu değerli kültürel varlığın korunması, yorumlanması ve sunumu için kapsamlı koruma çabalarının gerekliliği vurgulanmaktadır.