Ter Ü.Özbek O.2020-03-262020-03-2620051300-1884https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/19988In the comprehension of the constitution processes of socio-economic and socio-cultural space, the institutional approach emphasizes the importance of temporality and spatiality. From this viewpoint, city centers can be evaluated as the most important areas of spatial analysis in institutionalism. Within an institutional framework, the embeddedness of these centers appear to constitute in a structure in which there are an interaction between physical, socio-cultural and economic factors dependent on time and space. The formation of the historical city center in Konya can be discussed in a development process shaped by certain socio-spatial patterns specific both to the historical cities in Turkey and to Konya. In that respect, a spatial analysis within an institutional theoretical framework is taken as a basis in the explanation of the formation process of the historical city center in Konya as an experimental area of institutionalism.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCumulative causationHistorical city centersInstitutionalismTerritorial embeddednessReview204527536Q2