Urban Decline and Revitalization Project in Izmir-Tire Historical City Center

Urban revitalization has emerged as a response to the urban decline problems. Generally, urban revitalization projects are applied on districts that are in a process of decay. Historical city centers are under risk of decay and chaos because of historic layers that are formed in leadership of the user's needs such as contexts like commercial and social. Izmir-Tire Historical City Center has experienced different user profiles and it was formed as a commercial district in history. This paper is to examine Izmir-Tire urban conservation project, which has project that is started in historical urban textures that is diversed in context of scales and urban development dynamics.