Effect of urban transformation on the values of historic sites around mosques: Two cases in Manisa, Turkey

Koşun, Suna Büyükkılıç; Turan, Mine Hamamcıoğlu

doi:10.1016/j.foar.2020.04.003

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“…Yet, some may maintain that the religious authorities must hold the final decision on mosque designs, thus diminishing the role of users. To add to this issue, little or no literature has explore users' influence on mosque design; most mosque-pertaining literature focused on aspects such as mosques' energy consumption rates [43][44][45][46][47][48], thermal performances [44,46,49], social influences [50,51], the effect on society and policies [22,52,53], and restoration [54][55][56]. This gap has motivated the present study.…”

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Towards identifying mosque architectural characteristics aligned with expert preferences: application on selected mosques in Assuit City, Egypt

Elhefnawy,

Mohammed

2024

Sohag Engineering Journal

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Mosques, being public spaces, should be designed with the needs and preferences of the wider community in mind in order to facilitate spiritual practice and convenience. Through face-to-face interviews, mosque users have expressed a desire for a range of specific characteristics in their places of worship, further highlighting the importance of incorporating user input into the design process. The study aims to examine the design features of various mosques and assess their compliance with user preferences, with the broad goal of ensuring that mosques are capable of addressing their functional role. A field survey of six mosques was carried out. The findings show that mosque designers have not fully considered these preferences, resulting in a relative discrepancy between user preferences and actual mosque designs, which introduces concerns about the effectiveness and functionality of mosque spaces. Accordingly, the study recommends active community engagement in the design process from the early stages and emphasizes the need for retrofitting current mosques to address design deficiencies. In this context, the findings are useful for identifying areas for improvement for current and future mosques. They can also be utilized as a practical guideline for architects, designers, and other stakeholders involved in the mosque building process.

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Towards identifying mosque architectural characteristics aligned with expert preferences: application on selected mosques in Assuit City, Egypt

Elhefnawy,

Mohammed

2024

Sohag Engineering Journal

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“…A heritage site is a location that a portion or section of society has been considered to possess with historical or cultural significance (Irish Walled Towns Network, 2016). Büyükkılıç Koşun and Hamamcıoğlu Turan (2020) proposed some strategies to assess how certain changes affect the cultural asset qualities of historical sites. These methods aim to enhance the link between people and places for sustainable management.…”

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“…Historical sites around religious monuments are significant because of their spiritual and picturesque values. However, the greater the degree of spiritual significance, the greater the continuity of traditional activities in the site (Büyükkılıç Koşun and Hamamcıoğlu Turan, 2020). Many social events are currently held in the evening, and night tourism has become extremely important.…”

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Nightlife in historical sites: between lights and shadows (visions and challenges)

Fewella

2022

JCHMSD

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PurposeThe paper aims to describe the positive and negative effects of night lights in historical sites, as well as the most salient challenges faced by the visitors of these sites and determine ways to address them. The study aims to suggest several light-and-shadow approaches and designs to enhance the experience of visiting historical sites.Design/methodology/approachThis study identifies problems of nightlife in historical sites with an online international questionnaire to determine the preferences and difficulties faced by visitors of historical sites during day and night. After that Egypt was determined as a sample case of a developing country; its archaeological sites need to be improved. The main problems of historical Egyptian sites were investigated and approaches in developing historical sites with interactive lighting design were presented after an online questionnaire to the Egyptian society.FindingsThe paper shows that archaeological sites need some development, especially in their technological and lighting aspects, to overcome visitors’ low night-time interest in archaeological sites. Research has found certain limitations in the effects of constructing artificial illumination. The study provides modern sustainable solution for some light challenges in historical sites with approaches and solutions to solve it.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of that research could be applied in developing countries, but with larger specific studies to the historical urban locations according to the politics of the country.Practical implicationsThe paper includes sustainable approaches in developing historical sites with technological lighting design required to enhance historical sites at night-time and make visits more interactive and interesting.Originality/valueThis paper presents an identified need of historical sites visitors’ to study applying modern approaches in enhancing urban historical sites.

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Quantifying and mapping landscape value using online texts: A deep learning approach

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Effect of urban transformation on the values of historic sites around mosques: Two cases in Manisa, Turkey

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Towards identifying mosque architectural characteristics aligned with expert preferences: application on selected mosques in Assuit City, Egypt

Towards identifying mosque architectural characteristics aligned with expert preferences: application on selected mosques in Assuit City, Egypt

Nightlife in historical sites: between lights and shadows (visions and challenges)

Quantifying and mapping landscape value using online texts: A deep learning approach

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