Parsel morfolojisi ve apartman tipolojileri üzerine bir çalışma: Galata örneği

Abstract

The second half of the 19^th Century is a period in which the effects of Tanzimat reforms in the urban scale have taken place. The 6^th Municipality Department which is the first municipality structured according to western urban management concepts, is an important example of that period. Surrounded by old city walls with its narrow streets and dense urban texture Galata, was having difficulty maintaining its trading function when the 6^th Dept. Municipality was established in 1857 in Beyolu District (Galata, Tophane, Pera, Şişli). The area surrounded by the outer city walls of Galata was the residential area of various ethnic groups. The coastal region of Karaköy and Perşembe Pazarı District with a probably Genoesean grid plan was the commercial area. The need for broader streets and commercial buildings and rapidly developing commercial activity in this period had necessitated the redical restructuring of Karaköy coast which was one of the most important seaports of the Ottoman Empire. Finally, those functional transformations in the distrct have led to the development of residential areas around Galata Tower, towards Tünel Square and Taksim, and this was the area on which the new examples of Ottoman civil architecture had been raised on.