Developing an Indicator Base Study for Social Sustainability: The Case of Walled City of Famagusta

Despite of many investigations about environmental and economical sustainability, the social sustainability is largely neglected in different studies. In addition, the Walled City which is located in Famagusta, North-Cyprus has not witnessed serious social sustainability studies. In line with the aim of this study to bring back livability of the Walled City, this research has carried out social sustainability as a tool for proposing new ways of bringing. For this reason, after reviewing of varies resources, it has extracted common social suitability criteria‟s. Unlike the vastly magnitude of social sustainability criteria‟s, it has selected only three social sustainability criteria which are mostly common to various studies. Social equity, social interaction, and sense of place criteria are the common criteria selected. To empirical results, the findings of the common criteria have been examined in the case of study. Likewise, it applies quantitative and qualitative methods to make analysis and measure social sustainability. In addition, it has focused on the Walled City of Famagusta that contains nine different zones. In order to observe social sustainability in the Walled City, it has selected only three streets that are located in different zones. Therefore, the street one located in zone one & four, street two located in zone four & six and street three located in zone three are the case study streets. The results indicate that among the three case studies, street two has not success in enhancing social sustainability for bringing livability back to the Walled City in line with the main objective. Nevertheless, the overall results demonstrate that the social equity, social interaction and sense of place criteria have approximately positive impact on enhancement of social sustainability that can help bringing back livability to the Walled City. Keywords: Social Sustainability, Walled City, Famagusta, North Cyprus