This study aims to build a model for the management and institutional organization to conservation and development of the Yesemek archaeological site in Gaziantep, Turkey. The scope of this research is the Yesemek archaeological site, which is known as the Yesemek Stone Quarry and Sculpture Workshop. Yesemek is the first outdoor sculpture workshop known in his‌tory. It is significant to preserve the Yesemek archaeological site, which has a unique value in Anatolian and Mesopotamian cultures with its original value and to pass on to the next generations. However, multidirectional planning and implementation processes are needed to protect and improve the area. The management of this complex process requires an institutional organization model based on the principles of efficiency participation, cooperation, transparency, and sustainability. As a result of the research, a model of cultural heritage management consisting of governance, spatial, socio-economic, cultural, and financial programs for sustainable protection and improvement in the case of Yesemek archaeological site is defined. Manuscript profile

The aims of this s tudy is to analyse the planning and design process, basic principles and thechange-transformation process of the apartment type residential buildings in Turkey, Gaziantep city based onhis torical background. The scope of the research consis ts of residential buildings built in the city of Gaziantep, whichwere built in the pos t-Republican period. In addition, s tate-building maps, zoning-city plans and plan disclosurereports, photographs and other materials are among the other materials. In this research, a method based on thespatial usage of the apartment buildings cons tructed in Gaziantep and the changes in the housing plan schemesand the spatial usage of these buildings and the changes in the housing plan schemes were followed. These changesare evaluated from the analysis of a series of variables ranging from parcel level to plan schemes, access graphs tospatial size and ratios. As a result of the s tudy, it was seen that the access graph and space sizes of the apartment-typeresidential buildings in the city of Gaziantep, which dates back to the 1960s, have changed. However, differencesand variations are observed in the firs t plan typologies and it is noteworthy that this diversity is reduced and similarplan schemes are widely used. Manuscript profile