Özet:

Elements that give a city texture and meaning with its history, soul, architecture, cultural elements, geopolitical position, nature's assets and social formations are all contributing to different meanings of each city that are present in the world geography. Cities, which have different elements from each other, differ from others with their features. Related differences also form the social fabric of cities, creating a sense of belonging over individuals and societies. The cities, which have conveyed the cultural elements, aesthetic and cultural features, architectural structures, belief factors, and social life practices of different civilizations with their historical textures, carry the values that civilizations embroidered in time and space. Cities that have the ability to carry the values they have embroidered until today are considered as living organisms with this aspect. For this reason, space and structure-oriented readings carried out in the context of material culture and many elements reflecting the spiritual culture of cities should also be analyzed. Because many elements in the cities have strong effects on individuals and societies. Similar to individuals, cities have their own unique identities. The characters unique to the cities ' identities distinguish themselves from other cities. In today's world, where urban structures are increasingly developed, questioning the concepts of urbanity and urbanization, which are the building blocks of urban awareness, is of great importance in the healthy and sustainable development of cities. The main subject of the study is the questioning of urban awareness and its elements on the indicators of urban identity within the context of the Yalova city sample. In the study in which the concepts of urbanity, urbanization and awareness of urbanity are questioned by the method of phenomenology, Yalova citizens constitute the sample of the study.

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