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Re-imaging the City - A New Conceptualisation of the Urban Logic of the "Islamic city" (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
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Re-imaging the City - A New Conceptualisation of the Urban Logic of the "Islamic city" (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
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Somaiyeh Falahat investigates the spatial and morphological logic
of pre-modern Middle Eastern and North African cities, so-called
"Islamic cities." She bases her argument on the fact that the city
and consequently its form and structure, similar to other human
products, have deep roots in the thought-structure of the people.
Thus, to know such places properly, one has to refer to this
life-world and use it as a structure to observe the city. This
approach aims at opening new levels of understanding of the city by
grasping indigenous concepts and structures; it puts forward claims
for the possibility of a new method of analysis. The author studies
the historic city of Isfahan as the case study and suggests that an
indigenous term, Hezar-Too, can explain the complexity of the city,
which has been interpreted as labyrinthine and maze-like accounting
for the essence of the city and its form in an appropriate way.
Looking at the city from this new point of view can help in
observing it in its context and subsequently in discovering its
real character.
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