Taraklı: From Tradition to Cittaslow

Modern people are searching. They are searching for where they can find the happiness they have lost. People who migrated from rural areas to cities due to rapid urbanization not only failed to find what they were looking for there, but also could not find the values they left behind when they returned. Societies are in a state of great upheaval and dynamism. Our people have extraordinary talents, strong determination to work, and magnificent aspirations. However, lives spent chasing these passions quickly deplete and come to an end.

Is this what people are looking for in life?

Undoubtedly not?

The story we are about to tell you is the story of a small, simple town on this quest; one that has, to some extent, achieved its goal, and continues to work knowing it still has a long way to go, a town that dreams of creating a future vision based on its own traditional values; and not just dreams, but acts to realize its dream – an account of Taraklı's architectural adventure…