New Islamic urbanism : the architecture of public and private space in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / Stefan Maneval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maneval, Stefan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Saudi Arabia--Jiddah.

Architecture and society.

City planning--Social aspects--Saudi Arabia--Jiddah.

City planning.

Islamic architecture--Social aspects.

Islamic architecture.

Public spaces--Saudi Arabia--Jiddah.

Public spaces.

Privacy--Saudi Arabia--Jiddah.

Privacy.

Purdah--Saudi Arabia--Jiddah.

Purdah.

Social aspects.

City planning--Social aspects.

Saudi Arabia--Jiddah.

Physical Description:

xix, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 A brief history of Jeddah in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries p. 22

City of merchants and pilgrims p. 22

Architecture and urban development from the pre-oil era until today p. 28

2 Public and private spaces in Jeddah in the first half of the twentieth century p. 40

From the harbour to the bazaar: Topography of a trading town p. 42

Places of encounter: Mosques, open spaces and coffeehouses p. 45

Visible, but unseen: Women and public space p. 49

Residential architecture: One building, multiple functions p. 54

Theoretical reflections (1) : The problem of translation p. 61

Theoretical reflections (2) : Approaches to public and private space in Arab-Muslim societies p. 66

Privacy in an open house p. 71

Strong publics, weak publics and public space p. 77

3 The transformation of urban space in the early oil era, 1950s and 1960s p. 86

Malcolm X in Jeddah p. 88

Spatial differentiation p. 91

New residential architecture p. 97

4 Architecture and religious reform: Architectural discourse from the 1970s to the 1990s p. 108

Islamic architectural criticism: A case study p. 110

Social connectedness p. 114

Privacy p. 117

Westernisation versus Islam p. 121

Islamic Revival p. 122

Frames of reference: New Urbanism and the Islamic City paradigm p. 130

5 Residential architecture, from the 1970s to the early twenty-first century p. 139

New Islamic Urbanism in practice p. 141

Facets of enclosure (1) : Fear and safety p. 153

The changing architecture of social life p. 155

Facets of enclosure (2): Don't trust the concrete p. 160

6 Navigating urban space: Jeddah, early twenty-first century p. 170

Routine human encasement in Jeddah p. 171

Urban design and state control p. 174

Cars p. 180

Encounters on the stairs: Strategies of avoiding khalwa p. 182

Debate on ikhtilat p. 185

Masculine, feminine: The duplication of spaces p. 187

Negotiating gender segregation (1): A man's world p. 191

Negotiating gender segregation (2) : Encounters in cyberspace and the city p. 195

'Street Pulse': A public sphere Utopia? p. 198

Claiming public spaces: Protest and resistance p. 201

Gated publics, counterpublics p. 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.

ISBN:

1787356442

9781787356443

9781787356436

1787356434

OCLC:

1105896403