OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, cilt.35, sa.4, ss.51-57, 2010 (SSCI)
Today central neighborhoods of Istanbul like other cities of Turkey has entered a critical stage in urban preservation and urban regeneration issues. This discussion rather than being an academic argument, it exposes many contradictions about the real life especially in central neighborhoods. The reason for being dilemma for these settings,first, these neighborhoods are typical dilapidated historical environment and they may need urgent decisions for preservation and conservation, second, "the urban transformation law" that we faced for historical environments which is passed from the Turkish Parliament in 2006,coded as 5366.