Urban archaeological inventorying as a planning strategy and management of urban archaeological assets: Case of Izmir Historical Center

It is observed that the field of planning needs information from archeological studies in two ways in the experience of Turkey. The first one is the field of implementation, where building permits and implementation projects are decided, whereas the other one is the field of planning, which is also critical for the sound operation of the field of implementation and where plan decisions are made. In both fields, the planner requires opinions of experts, required to be sent to him by the institution in charge of archeological studies, and the maps, where spatialization of archeological information is performed, for the conservation of archeological assets. By what method and by which legal and institutional regulations archeological assets in the case of Turkey are represented in city and regional plans has been discussed within the scope of this thesis. As the method in this discussion, the cases experienced at the historical city center of Izmir have been examined primarily in order to understand the experience abroad on the basis of Europe and then the national experience and the reflections of national experience in practice. In conclusion, the examinations and studies performed have put forward that it is imperative to create a national inventory system that is likely to produce input for planning processes for the archeological assets in our country. It has been understood that new structurings are needed within legal and institutional contexts so as to create this inventory system and to ensure its supervision and its guidance for planning processes.