This book examines the built environment and buildings that Anatolia has hosted from prehistoric times to the present day, focusing particularly on the spatial and temporal dimensions of the subject. Contemporary approaches in cultural history writing aim to highlight the continuous nature of these dimensions, as well as to investigate and explain "environmental-formal-institutional-imaginary-evolutionary" and similar searches in effective dimensions.

The historical past of Anatolia, the defining space in the book, is investigated in a comparative perspective across periods and sub-periods starting from 500,000 BC, as evidenced by archaeological findings. Examining, scrutinizing, and defining the continuous phases of the built environment in Anatolia, which dates back approximately twelve thousand years, and its culturally integral history through structures of different functions and forms, have been considered important elements of the multi-dimensional method followed.

It is foreseen that the symbolic places and structures, limited to 101 examples, that form the urban image can only gain meaning through their reciprocal relationship with their surroundings. This book, which emerged from the chronological arrangement of these in groups and subgroups and their comparison in terms of functional and formal evolution within a historical perspective, can be considered an interesting attempt in contemporary cultural history writing.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)