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Primary Schools of İzmir (1923-1950)
(Middle East Technical University, 2012) Kul, Fatma Nurşen
This study aims to identify primary school buildings constructed inIzmir between the years 1923 and 1950 and understand them withinthe national context and its reflection on the local. For this purpose, thenational primary education system and school construction policies wereresearched, and their local reflections were discussed through the specificcase of Izmir. The results of this research demonstrate that the national policies,instigating the extension of school buildings throughout the country, weresuccessfully implemented in Izmir, and contrary to numerous other cities,new school buildings were constructed homogenously not only in thecity and sub-province centers but also in the villages. This meant that, awide spectrum of schools differing in their scales and qualities, rangingfrom multi-spaced city and sub-province schools built in highly populatedareas to single-spaced village schools constructed in settlements of lowpopulation levels were built in Izmir. Detailed archival research, sitesurveys and literature reviews showed that 500 new primary schools werebuilt in 1923-1950, 99 of which provided information in more detail in theform of visual and written documents. Based on this data, it was possible toestablish the type of projects that were implemented in Izmir, the designingpersons or institutions, their design criteria and the school constructionprocesses

Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage / Kültür Varlıklarını Koruma ve Onarım

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