Abstract:

The city imagery, which is effective in understanding and evaluating the urban environment, and enhancing the environmental quality, is important in terms of reflecting the allurement of the city. The city is being used as a cinematic environment in the connection between city image and cinema films and the components of the city image (paths, landmarks, nodes, districts, and edges) are taken as the starting point of the cinema. In addition, cinema films, shot in urban areas, also show the characteristics of the time in which they were shot as a whole.  This study was based on the perspectives of filmmakers (1900-2012) in Bursa, how the filmmakers perceived the city, the change in this perception depending on the time, and the use of city’s natural and cultural resources in films were examined in detail. It was aimed to determine the validity of Lynch’s ranking of image elements (paths, landmarks, nodes, districts and edges) and which city image came to be the nodes through the analysis of films shot in Bursa. The survey was not conducted and the mind maps were not drawn by individuals like in studies based on Lynch. However, mind maps were created on the basis of the city image elements that were given importance in cinema films.    According to the results of the study, the films were arranged as landmarks, nodes, paths, districts and edges in Yesilcam period (1955-1972). "Atatürk Statue, Green Tomb" city images were used especially during this period. Today (1987-2012), only the districts (Cumalıkızık) have been given weight. However, the landmarks in city centers (cultural resources) began to be included again in TV series, especially in the recent era (2017-2018) as in Yesilcam period

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