Documentation of the Spatial Transformation of Street: A Case Study on the Traditional Streets from the City of Ala？am (Samsun)

Street, as one of the main indicators of social production of space in various geographic conditions, represents a significant component of urban systems. They sometimes resist certain changes and maintain their basic spatial organization; but generally social changes and contemporary needs necessitate spatial transformation. Through this view, many studies tend to explain streets as the spatial organizations of social, economic and political life which convey the footprints of the history of social production of space. Having regard to these explanations, this study states that every analysis of street needs to consider the natural, geographical, social, cultural and economic variables. This study, on the other hand, is an attempt both to analyze the spatial organization of street both in terms of these variables temporally and to document these temporal changes. Traditional streets of the urban conservation area of the City of Ala？am in Samsun province represent the case area of this study