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Abstract Urban renewal in westernization period is generally grasped as preliminary phase of spatial base for modernization attempt of early Republican era. In an architectural context, modernization practice transferred by nation-state after the 1930s is defined by establishment of an industrial facility and a severe arterial road which changed urban backbone. Considering that issue in the scale of Sivas, it is drawn the attention to the existence of secondary mechanism which become modern in urban space before the penetration of rational modernist image. Sivas Rahmi Günay Street is clearly same kind of spatial base which experienced modernization practice before state railways campus and İstasyon Street. Rahmi Günay Street is developed as a secondary arterial road after the 1930s and, this paper’s main pursuit is the street’s historiographic and spatial investigation. Thus, there are three main inquiry area. First inquiry area is to scrutinize the period of beginning with urban renewal intervention in westernization era to 1930s. Secondly, Rahmi Günay Street’s construction program between 1930- 1950 which consists of public buildings and first mass housing practice is analyzed. Thirdly, big construction projects and open green areas which constituted after the 1950s are uncovered. Ultimately, the street as a secondary arterial road is constructed and consolidated gradually beginning with early 20th century to the 1980s and also, this process involves all clues of modernization route in the scale of Sivas.

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