Urban Integrity: The City of Nicosia, Turkish Republic Of Northern Cyprus [Megaron]

Cyprus island has witnessed the history, especially in the last thousand years, of different cultures and their sovereignties. In the 19. Century, the process of turning the Ottoman island into a British dominion starting by 1877, opened a new phase in the development of both the island and its cities. Nicosia began to spread outside the city walls after 1925 largely, when the island was fully dominionized by the British. In this period some new roads and a square were done to improve urban integrity. In 1959, The Republic of Cyprus was established and the island gained independence in 1960. However, due to ever climbing political and social unrest the country and its capital Nicosia was divided into two parts in 1974. The new situation opened another phase in the development of the Northern part and its Capital affecting the social life in terms of integrity, coherence and bore negative pressures on its economy as a result of the embargo applied by the western world. In this new situation there is a practical difficulty to write Nicosia's. There are some long and complicated alternatives to write it, for examples; Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus City of Nicosia, etc. However, write just Nicosia for TRNC Nicosia will provide ease of expression in the essay. It is interesting to see by various studies that possibility of integrating cities via improvement of pedestrian accessibility seems to be of prime importance (Hillier et al.). The very same effect is studied and sought by several researchers recently on vehicle transportation (Figueiredo ve Amorim, Turner, Paul, Pereira, Holanda, Barros, Ciravo？lu etc.). In this study, the Nicosia transportation network is analized by space syntax method and is used to determine the the ways which could increase its integrity under different scenarios