| Abstrakt: |
Historic environments remain in rapid and irregular urbanization of in today's cities and cannot adapt to urbanization process. Historical fabrics are damaged in time and they may even become neglected areas. Planning and design are attempted by taking into account the protection and utilization balance in these areas that are important for the image and cultural heritage of the city., Visual quality, which historical sites offer to the urban and urban dwellers has started to be prioritized when looking at the increasingly modernizing city. In this context, it is aimed to evaluate the visual quality in the historical area. The study is carried out around the Clock Tower, which is situated on the slope of the Sarayüstü hill at the center of the city of Kastamonu and inholds important landmark and nodal points of the city. The study area is examined by dividing into 3 zones depending on the usage of the area and the buildings in its borders. The visual quality evaluation in the study was done using photo questionnaire method based on the Legibility, Consistency, Complexity, Temporality/Continuity, Definability, Ownership/Belonging, Historicity, Naturality, Visual Scale and Sense of Space criteria by experts and users with a total of 100 points. As a result of expert and user group e valuation, it is found that the zone with housing areas has lower visual quality value, whereas the visual quality value in the zones with historical buildings were located is found higher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
