Cities and metaphors : beyond imaginaries of Islamic urban space / Somaiyeh Falahat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falahat, Somaiyeh, author.

Series:

Routledge research in planning and urban design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic cities and towns.

Public spaces--Islamic countries.

Public spaces.

Architecture--Islamic countries.

Architecture.

Urbanization--Islamic countries.

Urbanization.

City planning--Islamic countries.

City planning.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

ix, 191 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

In the context of Islamic city studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the urban space into a generic scientific framework. Phenomenological characteristics have consequently been ignored rather than integrated into theoretical components. The book argues that this results from a lack of appropriate conceptual vocabulary in our global body of scholarly literature. It challenges existing theories, introduces and applies the urban concept of Hezar-tu to rethink the spaces of Fez, Isfahan and Tunis. This tool inverts the principles of conceptualising urban space and constructs a staging-post towards a different articulation based on in-between spaces rather than nodes, a logic of ambiguity rather than determinacy, and interior rather than exterior thinking.?

Contents:

Introduction: diversifying global urban vocabulary

The idea of the "Islamic city"

City as labyrinth

Hezar-tu as an urban concept

City as Hezar-tu: Fez, Isfahan and Tunis

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415728225

0415728223

OCLC:

1015269816