Valorising Underground Built Heritage in Cappadocia

Edited by Müge Akkar Ercan and Kerim Aydıner

CNR Edizioni, 2023
pp. 188

ISBN electronic edition: 978-88-8080-605-9

DOI: 10.48217/MNGSPC04 (https://doi.org/10.48217/MNGSPC04)

With their multiple values, Underground Built Heritage sites and artefacts are precious re-sources that should be protected for now and future. With their generative potential, the UBH sites and artefacts can be effectively used as catalysts for attaining community valori-sation, achieving sustainable regeneration and development, and improving the quality of life in different localities. This book, focusing on the UBH potentials of Göreme and the Cap-padocia region in Turkey, documents the research and living lab experience conducted wi-thin the COST Action CA18110 Underground4Value framework between 2019 and 2023. It develops a reliable knowledge base concerning the UBH as the catalyst for community valo-risation, heritage conservation, urban and rural regeneration, and sustainable community development in Cappadocia. Within the framework of the COST Action, a participatory and inclusive planning process was followed to cooperate with the local stakeholders and the community. Hence, the book presents this participatory and inclusive process and outco-mes of the living lab and Strategic Transition Practice approach. Besides, it presents studies on stability monitoring and controlling, geological and geomorphological mapping and vi-sualisation of the UBH, artificial intelligence text-mining, and sentiment analysis methodolo-gies for discovering tourist views and the complexity of heritage conservation, sustainable regeneration, and tourism development in Göreme and Cappadocia.