City Center and Coastline Relations in Terms of Public Spaces through Black Sea Highway: Rize

Industrial Revolution has numerous effects on not only big cities but also developing cities’ transformation processes. In Rize, process has been started with Karadeniz Sahil Yolu (Black Sea Seaside Highway), which proposes an infill project in coastline of the city for aninternational route, in 1990’s. It aims to design an international connection point between citiesthroughout Black sea and Istanbul. As both national and international route, has affected Rizeregarding historical, cultural and architectural identity. After the project a new borderline hasbeen defined by this route that broke off the relationship between sea and center. On the seaside,public spaces such as pedestrian roads and bike-roads, cafes and picnic areas are taken placeswhile city center is housed in the other side (the old city border). This study aims to examine therelationship between the city center and sea regarding public spaces before and after theconstruction route.