Reflections of Hazelnut as an Agricultural Product to Urban Space in Giresun Throughout the Duration from Ottoman Empire to Republican Era

This essay aims reading the effect of modernism ideal which had been ideologically adopted during the last period of Ottoman Empire with respect to westernization reforms and during the Republican era on spatial change and transformation on the basis of an agricultural product. Within this context Giresun of which social, cultural, economic development is primarily based on hazelnut from Ottoman to Republican era and reflections of hazeknut on the urban space were determined as subject of our study. The process encompassing production, processing, industrialization of hazelnut and its reflection on urban space has been built on three periods: Industrialization in the last period of the Ottoman Empire (1842-1923), cooperatives and institutionalization in the early Republican period (1923-1950), liberal economic policies after 1950 during which factories and industrial settlements and development (1950-1980) had been involve in the process. The city has evolved from the traditional fabric to a modern urban fabric in the last hundred years; transforming the internal households using hammer and mill into factories using and working with machines and electricity. Establishment of institutions endowed with driving force for development of hazelnut such as Fiskobirlik, Hazeknut Research, Hazelnut exhange market and finally the addition of Fiskobirlik Integrated Facilities which may be defined as an industrial facility of 20th centuryhad been discussed in chronological order along with architectural structures of these establishments