Adramytteion Ancient City Comprehensive Heritage Preservation Plan

Abstract

Adramytteion Ancient City is situated at the Gulf of Edremit in North Aegean, on the shoreline of Oren neighbourhood of the town of Burhaniye of Balikesir Province. Adramytteion/Oren is one of archaeological sites and settlements where various cultures and civilisations from different historical periods are layered. Preservation of cultural heritage and permanence of archaeologic researches in such places with a continuum of habitation is highly difficult and necessities consideration of a variety of planning component. On the other hand, due to new approaches to preservation of cultural heritage in 21st century on international level and new principles and concepts particularly accentuate a comprehensive assessment of environments with historical, natural and cultural heritage values. Therefore, modern development is not always contradictory to preservation while these approaches integrates preservation of urban heritages with social and economical objectives. Here, new principles and concepts emerged from fresh approaches on international scale which brings important opportunities for places where a multitude of past cultures physically layered are tackled and discussed around the case of Adramytteion Ancient City Preservation Master Plan's objectives and principles. This plan is discussed here in order to provide a case of its own with almost considerable differences of mainstream preservation planning in Turkey since it seeks sustainability of archaeologic researches and cultural heritages as well as existing life of present neighbourhood.