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Thro history, communities have needed open or closed urban focuses to meet their needs, such as being together, gathering, meeting. Each urban settlement unit has central points with important functions that describe the area's way of life. These square-shaped central points have gained a representative power in the city memory through their changing contents and social movements and demonstrations in the historical process. In the appearance of urban spaces (places) the historicity and the relationships of the physical settlement, scale and environmental units that are formed accordingly are highlighted, while in social and social terms the way of life, the system of governance and the problems of this system, the struggles and wars have been determining elements. In this direction, in the article, the effects of the 1922 Great İzmir Fire, which holds an important place in the city memory, in urban planning, the challenge formations in İzmir, will be attempted to be studied through the example of the İzmir Republic Square. The city planning of the Republic Square after the Great Izmir Fire will be carried out with its spatial formation and the changing function and user character within the historic process.

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