Entering a city: on a lost early modern practice

Jütte, Daniel

doi:10.1017/s096392681300062x

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“…The way Gated cities and walls were predominant in premodern cities as a universal phenomenon and a symbol of security, law, and order [11]. In China, for example, gates and walls were a distinct feature of its urban landscape as cities were surrounded by walls [12].…”

Section: Gated Cities In Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These characteristics were derived from the ramification of sacredness and privacy, which has protracted over to houses and residential areas as traces of walls were found in most of the old Arabian cities [10]. These walls were part of the master plan features, enforced by privacy and hierarchy, as the notion of seclusion of social groups was derived from the old Arabian cities [7,11].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Rise of Gated Communities in Amman from the Old to the Modern: Socio-Spatial Impact on the Surrounding

Hammad,

Li,

Vrcelj

2024

IJSDP

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The spread of gated communities in Amman calls for a nuanced investigation as they increasingly become the preferred housing choice for middle and upper-middle residents. This article attempts to correlate the social and spatial characteristics of Arabian neighbourhoods with the implications associated with gated communities, such as fragmentation and seclusion. The investigation employs a descriptive-analytic method and historical inquiry, including the evolution of Amman's master plan. In addition to case study observations and analysis of Al Andalucí a being the first gated community developed in Amman. Findings suggest that separation and segregation can be achieved without affecting the quality of life, as walls, historically, played a vital role in encouraging interaction. Notably, gated communities show no correlation with the historical morphological context as they symbolise segregation, fragmentation, and exclusion. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the pragmatic notion of gates and walls in history and how people interacted spatially and socially, which can be echoed in modern gated communities aiming to reduce their impacts on the surroundings.

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Section: Gated Cities In Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise of Gated Communities in Amman from the Old to the Modern: Socio-Spatial Impact on the Surrounding

Hammad,

Li,

Vrcelj

2024

IJSDP

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“…Konačno, narativ sjećanja podrazumijeva dimenzije djelovanja i bivanja, odnosno, podrazumijeva prakse i ideje koje se vezuju uz zid, kroz aspekte rituala, spomenika i memorijala. Narativ rituala ogleda se unutar brojnih ritualnih praksi koje se vezuju za čin izgradnje zida kao vida definiranja granice prostora (naprimjer, prinošenje žrtve 11 ), te rituale koji se mogu odvijati na zidu i oko zida (Zid plača je najprominentniji primjer ovih praksi). Kada su granice grada bile definirane zidom, ritualne prakse koju su pratile definiranje granice i izgradnju zida povijesno su bile globalno rasprostranjene.…”

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Preispitivanje narativnih svojstava i dogmatskog shvatanja zida – doprinos shvatanju liminalnosti arhitekture u zrcalu forme i strukture / Review of the Narrative Properties and Dogmatic Understanding of the Wall – a Contribution to Understanding the Architecture’s Liminality Through the Mirror of Form and Structure

Bošnjak Karadža

2023

SOP

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Architecture has the role to mediate communication and fabrication of perception of truth and dogmas of a society in certain space and time, and the wall, as the most accessible element, plays a significant role in this process as the bearer of the symbolic-representational function of architecture, thus overcoming its tectonic definition. The position of the wall at the interface of intention of blocking and permeating socio-spatial flows within the urbo-architectural ensemble makes it a liminal artifact subject to multiple interpretations. For this reason, numerous aspects of recognized binding narratives – protection, communication, marking and memory – were examined, indicating the existence of transcendence of the idea and concept of sanctity throughout the history of construction. Goal of this paper is to examine the existence of relationship between the inherent liminality of the wall and the type of narrative that men define responding to recognized liminality, that is, the origin of man’s need for enclosure – for barriers that are the product of seeking and creating sense and meaning in truths and dogmas. One of the answers lies in theological philosophy as the cause of structural dogmas in architecture, which through a metaphorical expression based on the subjective pathological dogmatism of the religious conception of the world can realize a literal collective interpretation through the artefact of the wall.

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“…It is a fitting metaphor to describe the entangled nature of privacy and publicity in early modern cities, since early modern city gates were generally a symbol of demarcation and exclusion on the one hand, and a symbol of access and invitation into the city on the other. 24 It is a signal example with regard to Kilian's argument that space should not be looked at as either public/accessible or private/exclusionary. Access to the whole of urban space was negotiated via a passage through a city's walls, but it would not be worthwhile to uniformly declare the entire city to be either public or private.…”

Section: Gatekeeping and Urban Spacementioning

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Privacy, Publicity and Gender in Amsterdam’s Early Modern Urban Space

Pierik

2022

PSJ

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This article considered the layers of publicity and privacy in urban space in Amsterdam through conflicts from notarial depositions. It explores and describes the everyday culture of transparency and its relative openness, in which the practices of movement within, through, and around the house were mediated by gender, class, and materiality. It considers how despite the relative openness of homes, demarcations were not absent in early modern cities, but followed a different spatial logic than we know today. Through the concept of practices of gatekeeping, privacy and publicity are not considered as absolute opposites, but rather as powers that can be at work in the same place, allowing for a more multi-layered perspective on urban space. Through this lens, this article considers different ways in which women and men of different social status claimed and negotiated publicity and privacy in everyday life, on the doorsteps of their houses, in the alleys were they lived and away from their homes. By turning to snapshots of street life, it shows how these negotiations were influenced by both social-cultural attitudes and the materiality of urban life in the form of doors, raised doorsteps and windows. Finally, it considers how although both publicity and privacy were forces at work in the street and in houses, a more complete form of secrecy and privacy required mobilities of a larger scope, as people moved outside the city or at least to its fringes. Behaviour that one wanted to keep secret would, under most circumstances, have required the necessary mobility to stay secret, and the spatial constellation of privacy was often directed outwards rather than inwards.

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Entering a city: on a lost early modern practice

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

The Rise of Gated Communities in Amman from the Old to the Modern: Socio-Spatial Impact on the Surrounding

The Rise of Gated Communities in Amman from the Old to the Modern: Socio-Spatial Impact on the Surrounding

Privacy, Publicity and Gender in Amsterdam’s Early Modern Urban Space

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