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Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317534069
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East by : Mohammad Gharipour

Download or read book Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East written by Mohammad Gharipour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities to a new era and also in transforming to a newly shaped social culture in which the public has a voice. This book considers what ties these projects to their historical context, and what regional and local elements and concepts have been used in their design.

Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317534077
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Social Housing in the Middle East

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253039878
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Housing in the Middle East by : Mohammad Gharipour

Download or read book Social Housing in the Middle East written by Mohammad Gharipour and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the 19th century and how it will need to adapt to suit the 21st.

The Changing Middle Eastern City

Author : G.H. Blake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317265114
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Middle Eastern City written by G.H. Blake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East, defined here as extending from Morocco to Iran and Turkey to Sudan, lies at the crossroads of three continents – Africa, Asia and Europe. With the largest reserves of petroleum in the world its importance is well beyond its physical size and population. Rapid urban growth has radically transformed Middle Eastern society in recent decades, but the associated problems are incompletely understood. This volume, first published in 1980, highlights some of the major issues of Middle Eastern urbanisation and provides a comprehensive statement about the current position of research. Urban origins and the nature of urban growth are discussed to provide a background to considerations of migration, employment, housing and retailing. The contributors suggest that planning strategies have hitherto proved inadequate with small towns being largely overlooked, historic quarters rapidly disappearing and water in short supply. Future research into all these problem areas is considered essential, but the research must be coordinated and utilised. Concentrating on practical problems, achievements and challenges for research, the contributions in this book, specially commissioned from active researchers in the field, will prove a valuable guide to recent ideas and developments in the Middle East.

Middle East

Author : José Luis Mateo
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783906027166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Middle East written by José Luis Mateo and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Architectural Papers series, The Middle East explores the architecture of a nearly paradoxical region. Both the cradle of culture, where much remains of thousands of years of human society, the Middle East is also an area of great flux in contemporary history. This volume explores this dichotomy in three sections. The first, "Beyond the View," investigates notions of the Middle Eastern architecture through a comparative study of different parts of the Arab world. "Case Studies" focuses on three exceptionally different cities--Beirut, Amman, and Doha--through an investigation of recent and future building projects. The final chapter, "Limits" looks at the architectural practices of countries that constitute the geographic, cultural, and political limits of the region: Israel, Turkey, and Iran.

Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East

Author : Simona Azzali
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030697959
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East by : Simona Azzali

Download or read book Urban Challenges in the Globalizing Middle-East written by Simona Azzali and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches. It aims to develop a better understanding of the patterns of social interactions and activities in public places, which have been influenced by cultural heritage values. Sustainable and livable open spaces can help in improving living conditions in cities. Public spaces are relevant as they satisfy many human needs. In public spaces, people interact and meet; people with different cultures and social backgrounds can communicate and learn from each other in social and spontaneous ways. However, decision-makers tend to forget the value of public spaces, especially in the absence of a national regulatory framework in emerging globalized cities. The book provides a multi-disciplinary approach in reading the characteristics and values of public spaces in the emerging cities of the Middle East.

Social Housing in the Middle East

Author : Kıvanç Kılınç
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253039886
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Social Housing in the Middle East written by Kıvanç Kılınç and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the 19th century and how it will need to adapt to suit the 21st.

Desert Paradises

Author : Julian Bolleter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351129740
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Desert Paradises written by Julian Bolleter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy. Using the case study of Dubai, Bolleter explores how Dubai’s rulers employ a paradisiacal image of greening the desert, in part, as a tool for political legitimization. Bolleter also evaluates the designed landscapes of Dubai against the principles of the United Nations and the International Federation of Landscape Architects and argues that what is happening in Dubai represents a significant discrepancy between theory and practice. This book offers a new perspective on landscape design that has until now been unexplored. It would be beneficial to academics and students of geography, landscape architecture, urban design and urban planning – particularly those with an interest in Dubai or the many cities in the region that are experiencing Dubaiification.

The Mamluk City in the Middle East

Author : Nimrod Luz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107729815
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Mamluk City in the Middle East written by Nimrod Luz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon) - and presents a new approach and methodology for understanding historical cities. Drawing on diverse textual sources and intensive field surveys, Nimrod Luz reveals the character of the Mamluk city as well as various aspects of urbanism in the region, establishing the pre-modern city of the Middle East as a valid and useful lens through which to study various themes such as architecture, art history, history, and politics of the built environment. As part of this approach, Luz considers the processes by which Mamluk discourses of urbanism were conceptualized and then inscribed in the urban environment as concrete expressions of architectural design, spatial planning, and public memorialization.

Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities

Author : Haim Yacobi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131723118X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities written by Haim Yacobi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana’a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East –– which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence –– but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.

Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads

Author : Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030227626
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads written by Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines examples of contemporary situation of historic regions in the Middle East and its broader geographic context connected to the historic trade routes, offering cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral perspectives. The region is home to ancient settlements and early human endeavors to form cities, and across the region historic urban historic features, such as ancient city centers, still exist alongside contemporary ones. Many of those historic regions are along the Silk Roads. However, the urban continuity that once existed over generations in the physical and social paradigm have been interrupted by rapid urbanization, globalization and urban economic pressures, in addition to conflicts and frequent destructive natural hazards. It is often the case that dealing with such pressing issues in a historic city is more complex than dealing with those in newly built cities and urban areas. Based on carefully selected and updated papers from the Silk Cities 2017 International Conference, this book appeals to researches, practitioners and policy makers.

The Mamluk City in the Middle East

Author : Nimrod Luz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107724129
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Mamluk City in the Middle East written by Nimrod Luz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon) - and presents a new approach and methodology for understanding historical cities. Drawing on diverse textual sources and intensive field surveys, Nimrod Luz adroitly reveals the character of the Mamluk city as well as various aspects of urbanism in the region, establishing the pre-modern city of the Middle East as a valid and useful lens through which to study various themes such as architecture, art history, history, and politics of the built environment. As part of this approach, Luz considers the processes by which Mamluk discourses of urbanism were conceptualized and then inscribed in the urban environment as concrete expressions of architectural design, spatial planning, and public memorialization"--

Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

Author : M. Rieker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230612474
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa written by M. Rieker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.

Nature Driven Urbanism

Author : Rob Roggema
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030267172
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Nature Driven Urbanism written by Rob Roggema and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the way that a nature-driven approach to urbanism can be applied at each of the urban scales; architectural design, urban design of neighborhoods, city planning and landscape architecture, and at the city and regional scales. At all levels nature-driven approaches to design and planning add to the quality of the built structure and furthermore to the quality of life experienced by people living in these environments. To include nature and greening to built structures is a good starting point and can add much value. The chapter authors have fiducia in giving nature a fundamental role as an integrated network in city design, or to make nature the entrance point of the design process, and base the design on the needs and qualities of nature itself. The highest existence of nature is a permanent ecosystem which endures stressors and circumstances for a prolonged period. In an urban context this is not always possible and temporality is an interesting concept explored when nature is not a permanent feature. The ecological contribution to the environment, and indirect dispersion of species, from a temporary location will, overall add biodiversity to the entire system.

The Routledge Handbook on Greening High-Density Cities

Author : Peng Du
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040030947
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook on Greening High-Density Cities written by Peng Du and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people’s health. Written by leading scholars and experts, the chapters aim to summarize the “state-of-the-art” and produce a reference book for policymakers, practitioners, academics, and researchers to study, design, and build high-density cities by integrating green spaces. The topics covered in the book include (but are not limited to) Urban Heat Island, Green Space and Carbon Sequestration, Green Space and Social Equity, Green Space and Public Health, Biophilic Cities, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Farms, Urban Farming Technologies, Nature and Biodiversity, Nature and Health, Biophilic Design, Green Infrastructure, Urban Revitalization, Post-Covid Cities, Smart and Resilient Cities, Tall Buildings, and Sustainable Vertical Cities.

Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies

Author : Ashraf M. Salama
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351057472
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies written by Ashraf M. Salama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, developed over more than three decades. At the core of the discussion are the efforts, processes, and outcomes of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA). The AKAA recognises excellence in architectural and urban interventions within cities and settlements in the Islamic world which are continuously challenged by dramatic changes in economies, societies, political systems, decision-making, and environmental requirements. Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies responds to the recurring question about the need for architectural awards, arguing that they are critical to validating the achievements of professional architects while making their contributions more widely acknowledged by the public. Through analysis and critique of over sixty awarded and shortlisted projects from over thirty-five countries, this book provides an expansive look at the history of the AKAA through a series of narratives on the enduring values of architecture, architectural and urban conservation, built environment sustainability, and architectural pluralism and multiple modernities. Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies will appeal to professionals and academics, researchers, and upper-level students in architectural history and theory and built environment related fields.

Cultural Landscapes of South Asia

Author : Kapila D. Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317365933
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Landscapes of South Asia written by Kapila D. Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize, enact and reinvent cultural memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks.