Evaluated of "Ideal Republic Village" rural development project of Atatürk from the point of space theories

The villages are the base of the country's development. It is a national policy the villages are developed for the developed countries. There are the important steps about the villages in Turkiye. The important one of the steps is a village project prepared in first years of The Republic. The material of the study is the project of Ideal Republic Village. The project was drawn in 1937. Atatürk was interested and contributed to the project. The project has inspirational characteristics, as model both supports cultural and social structure and increases production and welfare in the villages. This and similar projects are important for development of urban and villages. The study contains analyzing of the project with space and design theories of Lynch, Norberg-Schulz and Gestault. With this way, space structure and design of the project were evaluated objectively