Atik, DamlaErdogan, Nevnihal2024-06-122024-06-122014978-605-4158-32-4https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14551/202611st International Urban Planning-Architecture-Design Congress (UPAD2014) -- MAY 08-11, 2014 -- Kocaeli, TURKEYThe processes of change observed in many fields today such as urbanization, urban transformation and globalization which all are caused by socio-cultural, technological, economic and politic factors have great influence on people, relationships, living environments, houses and cities. Existing as a loop these dynamics interact with each other and structure the new parts of the city as well as transform the old / traditional settlements. It is seen that traditional lifestyle and buildings have changed and/or decreased in terms of functional incompetence and dilapidation in accordance with these transformations and changing requirements of the century. It is possible to state that the traditional housing areas, as an important component for cultural sustainability and worthy of historical heritage have transformed accordingly in terms of socio-cultural and physical ways with their users. Some questions occur at that point such as How can we find out if a settlement haystransformed / to which grade has it transformed?, How can the transformation of a traditional settlement be formulated?, In which grade can these transformations be accepted favorably? It is aimed in this study to answer these questions using a method for comparison of traditional housing area parameters with contemporary (new) housing area parameters and examine in the Edirne-Kaleigi Traditional Settlement determining the physical and sociocultural changes in traditional housing area.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessCultureTraditional Housing AreasContemporary Housing AreasTransformationEdirneConference Object5969N/AWOS:000448632800004