THE HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN SPACE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF PROPERTY-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN MUĞLA, TURKEY
Journal: METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture
Year: 2015

Mugla is a town in southwestern Turkey that has for centuries been on the major trade routes. Property-society relations during the periods of the Anatolian Turkish Principalities and the Ottoman Empire have had a significant influence on the structuring of the town space, with its main evolution outside the fortress beginning in the 12 th century. Neighbourhoods first began to form arbitrarily around pious structures, following no particular plan, and this was the case up until the advent of th