Examination of the Sustainability of Traditional Neighborhood Identity in Turkey Via Competition Projects

The changing lifestyles along with the rapid urbanization process are caused changes in the neighborhood structure which shows local identity characteristics in our country. The repetition of the new spaces emerged in cities eliminates the identity characterictics they have and creates standardized spaces. Presenting standardized new lifestyles of the practices that are moving away from human scale reveal the necessity of the studies on the prominence of locality that are becoming more prevalent in the world. In this context, it was aimed to implement the practices in a way to emphasize the local identity in cities undergoing transformation also in Turkey and studies have been initiated to revive the neighborhood tradition which has an important place in the memory of society but has been forgotten. With “7 Climate 7 Region: Neighborhood National Architectural Design Competition” organized by TOK？- EMLAK GYO A.？. and “Neighborhood Design Idea Competition” organized by ？lbank, it was aimed to make the neighborhood design that answers today’s needs and also has traditional context. The aim of this study is firstly to examine the concept of neighborhood and the identity elements of the neighborhood and then to search the extent to which of these elements constitute the concept of neighborhood in the award winning projects of “7 Climate 7 Region: Neighborhood National Architectural Design Competition” and “Neighborhood Design Idea Competition”