Typo- Morphological Analysis as a Method for Physical Revitalization: The Case of Famagusta’s Residential District

Abstract

Spatial configuration of residential districts of several cities due to changes in social structure and subsequently social needs, become incompatible with the new lifestyle. Subsequently these districts became abounded due to its function or redevelop in order to satisfying the needs. In case of being abounded, the building fall into not only functional but also physical deterioration and in case of redevelopment in most cases the entire district lose its characteristic. Professional practices on revitalizing these districts significantly needs an integrated approach for typo- morphological analysis as a diagnostic tool to interpret the evolutionary process of physical changes. This research aims to analyse a declined residential area in city of Famagusta city based on typo- morphological approaches on Conzen who is the pioneer of English morphological analysis and Caniggia who is the pioneer of Italian typo-morphological analysis in urban context. This area faced with both decline and in some part inappropriate development, which influenced the transformation of urban fabric and eventually lead to fragmented urban landscape. Accordingly, this research firstly, tries to highlight the importance of typo-morphological analysis in these particular areas. In addition, attempts to represent the methods of interpretation based on typo-morphological analysis.