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Memory which gains meaning with lived (social) space has destroyed urban identities and caused the erasure of urban memory in the process of transforming cities by postmodernism. Thus, cities had been uprooted from their origins and started to be represented by artificial appearances. This study examines the change of identity in the historical city center of Iznik and the appearance of the city in old and new memories. In this work, which was designed according to the qualitative research method, in-depth interviews were conducted with the oral history technique from the narrative research pattern. Thematic analysis was applied to the interview texts, and participant descriptions were included to support the theoretical framework. In the study, analyzing the change of urban identity in the historical process through the lens of everyday life practices and the effect of changing social relations on spatial memory allows us to read the study in the triangle of space, identity and memory. According to the findings of the study, interventions towards the space in the historical city center of Iznik caused fractures in the particiants’ perception of the Iznik city identity. In addition, the alteration of the spatial pattern within the built environment, as well as the political decisions that manipulate the memory, cause the extinction of the social memory of the city and the commodification of the socio-cultural values of the city.

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