Landscape Design Project of Historical Yedikule Gardens (Istanbul)

Abstract

Urban agriculture has been an important issue throughout the history as an economic and leisure time effort. Also urban agriculture has played an important role in increasing the quality of urban life in ecological terms by contributing to the urban green space system. Historical Yedikule Gardens was chosen as a study area in order to embody these important roles of urban agriculture on an example and incorporate it in today's experience. The study area has history of 1500 years in the borders of Istanbul Fatih District. This area is considered as one of the most basic examples of urban agriculture. People have been producing and selling vegetables and fruits in this area for hundreds of years. With this work, it was aimed to reorganize Historical Yedikule Farmland to increase the contribution of the area to the texture of the urban green area with its renewed landscape and to provide economic gain and hobby area to the city people while maintaining a past culture. In this context, the landscape design project of the study area was carried out within the scope of historical environmental protection and urban agriculture area regulation principles. In the result of the work it is seen that the area renewed as historical, cultural and economic values will be contribution to the users of and the city. The study can be an example of such similar areas in terms of urban green space system and community use.