Hasankeyf, located in Upper Mesopotamia, southeastern Turkey with its
environs at the floodplains of Tigris, welcomed many cultures in different periods. It
has a very unique status with its difficult topography and distinctive outlook where
spatial urbanization in almost every period must have been extraordinary, as well.
The aim of this thesis is to study the water distribution system, specifically its
relation to natural and man-made environment, at the Upper city of Hasankeyf, in
order to identify the impact of utilization of water on the urban structure, with a new
perspective.
The thesis tries to explain the designation of urban patterns and understand
possible late settlement strategies in the light of cistern-incentive and available canal
data collected at the Upper city. The identification of 185 cisterns and their various
characteristics helps to make different analyses to establish links between the water
system and settlement areas at macro and micro levels, which go hand in hand with
mapping studies. Notwithstanding the abovementioned objectives, this study
endeavors to find some common denominators with Roman water practices, which
are considered to be comparable to those of Hasankeyf, thus unveil some clues for
Hasankeyf water features.
It now appears that water and urban settlement are two sides of a coin where
water can not be treated as the sole determinant on the development of settlement
patterns in which case the urban settlement also has impact on the water distribution
at the Upper city.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608126/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 February 2007 |
| Creators | Oguz, Eser Deniz |
| Contributors | Toprak, Vedat |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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