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Malaya bazaar, which was formed in its present place with the relocation of the city center in the last century of the Ottoman Empire, had commercial and administrative functions together after the establishment of the Republic. The city's multi-layered and multi-cultural structure can be seen with buildings such as mosques, baths, churches, government offices, and small bazaars comprising merchant groups. Keeping the Malatya bazaar alive with all its tangible and intangible components is essential for preserving urban identity and all elements that reveal, contain, and carry it to the next period. Today, the bazaar structure, which has been exposed to many deteriorations, needs both physical improvement and intangible values to be made visible. The Historic Urban Landscape Recommendation, developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2011, to preserve and continue to use historical urban areas, offers an approach for managing urban centers with a dynamic structure. The aim of this paper is to seek possibilities for the manageability of Malatya bazaar within the framework of the Historic Urban Landscape approach and offer suggestions in this context. In the first stage of the study, the possibilities offered by the Historic Urban Landscape approach are investigated by literature review and the second stage, the inventory of tangible and intangible cultural components of Malatya Bazaar is determined with field studies. Finally, as a result of the evaluation made, suggestions are presented on these problems through historical urban landscape application tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Safranbolu district is one of the rare settlements of our country, which has been declared a protected area with its traditional structures and urban texture from the Ottoman period. Due to these features, the area was included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1994 as a cultural heritage site. However, the rapid increase in global change in recent years, urbanization movements, industrialization activities, tourism demands, population growth and economic concerns have caused the area to change in terms of structural and cultural aspects. For this reason, in this study, the effect of increasing urbanization on the cultural landscape change of Safranbolu was considered worth examining. In the study, the urbanization of Safranbolu and the analysis of the cultural landscape change were made by evaluating the compliance of the area with the cultural landscape criteria with on-site observations and examinations. The area in this evaluation; It has been examined in terms of aesthetic, artistic, social, scientific, history and archeology with identity values. As a result of the examinations, it was concluded that the traditional texture was gradually moved away from the settlement areas outside the protected areas in Safranbolu and the cultural landscape was also changed. It has been determined that this change is mostly experienced in terms of identity, social and artistic values. As a result, in the study, the importance of protecting the cultural landscape values of Safranbolu, which is one of the most important areas of our cultural heritage, as a whole, and transferring them to future generations has been emphasized and suggestions have been made for this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]