Context-based conceptions in urban morphology: Hezar-Too, an original urban logic?

Falahat, Somaiyeh

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2013.09.005

“…Their external appearance was of traditional, walled towns, while the domestic layouts drew on the typology of courtyard gardens, fountains, and flexible living rooms (Cohen and Eleb 2002, 214-226;Cohen 2006;Eleb 2000;Falehat 2014). The intention was to provide habitat, including both housing and neighborhood structure, which was appropriate for the residents' social norms and religious practices, while the picturesque urban décor also served to support a growing touristic market for local color, supplementing the old casbah.…”

Section: Housing the "Indigenous" In French North Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Reclaiming Heritage Through the Image of Traditional Habitat

Mozaffari

¹

,

Westbrook

²

2017

The Making of Islamic Heritage

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

From the 1960s, Iran, like many other similar countries experienced a radical urban expansion and industrialization, chiefly as a result of the expanding oil industry. Internal migration fueled by industrialization created both a crisis of habitation and a cultural dissonance, in response to which various schemes were developed for model communities, intended to bridge the gap between Iranian culture, its heritage, and modern urbanism. We will examine one such "model community," New Shushtar, a housing complex adjacent to the ancient heritage town of Shushtar, in which architectural motifs and images were used to evoke and perhaps invoke authentic traditional life. We will place this complex within the broader context in the Muslim world of attempts to defend regional culture from the effects of globalization.

show abstract

“…In subsequent years prior to the Second World War, public and company housing estates for Muslims, such as the Habous quarter, were laid out in Casablanca to the design of French architects. Their external appearance was of traditional, walled towns, while the domestic layouts drew on the typology of courtyard gardens, fountains, and flexible living rooms (Cohen and Eleb 2002, 214-226;Cohen 2006;Eleb 2000;Falehat 2014). The intention was to provide habitat, including both housing and neighborhood structure, which was appropriate for the residents' social norms and religious practices, while the picturesque urban décor also served to support a growing touristic market for local color, supplementing the old casbah.…”

Section: Probing An Islamic Tradition In Architecture and Habitatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Making of Islamic Heritage

Rico¹

2017

10

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

From the 1960s, Iran, like many other similar countries experienced a radical urban expansion and industrialization, chiefly as a result of the expanding oil industry. Internal migration fueled by industrialization created both a crisis of habitation and a cultural dissonance, in response to which various schemes were developed for model communities, intended to bridge the gap between Iranian culture, its heritage, and modern urbanism. We will examine one such "model community," New Shushtar, a housing complex adjacent to the ancient heritage town of Shushtar, in which architectural motifs and images were used to evoke and perhaps invoke authentic traditional life. We will place this complex within the broader context in the Muslim world of attempts to defend regional culture from the effects of globalization.

show abstract

“…The city in crisis often legitimizes urban renewal for the 'good of all' by elites including mobile urban policies (Davies and Msengana-Ndlela 2015;Jacobs 2012), place branding and waterfront renewal (Airas, et al 2015), and the competition for managerial firms (Davidson and Iveson 2015b). Decision-making processes in the entrepreneurial/technologically managed city create a disconnect between the image of the city at the global scale and that in local practice (Falahat 2014;Foo, Martin, Wool, and Polsky 2014), thus marginalizing and disenfranchising people of color, the poor, and homeless (Bose 2015). One approach to countering this metanarrative is careful attention to the ways scholars represent and write about cities (Marcuse 2015), employing an engaged and critical social science perspective (Gleeson, 2014), and turning towards a more local ethnographic approach that takes into account relational processes and development at the city scale (Davidson and Iveson 2015a;Jacobs 2012;Robinson 2008;Secor, 2013), as well as complex intertwined histories (Hayden 1995;Loukaitou-Sideris and Ehrenfeucht 2011;Massey 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%