LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND PLACES OF MEMORY: ISTANBUL HISTORICAL PENINSULA CASE

This study aims to emphasize the importance of places of memory which are preserved and kept by the societies throughout history in the frame of national icons, cultural identity and spatial sustainability in case of landscape architecture to create consciousness about these areas which reflect the local culture with unplanned developments in the physical environment to create awareness that it is adversely affected. Places of memory was studied in terms of physical (can be directly sensed by sensory organs) and mental dimensions (multifunctional, perceivable by everyone), for the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in Istanbul Historical Peninsula case