Evolution and changes in the morphologies of Sudanese cities

Ibrahim, Mohamed Babiker; Omer, Omer Abdalla

doi:10.1080/02723638.2014.919798

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“…Unlike the traditionally incremental and spontaneous pattern of change in urban form, these modifications are implemented in a relatively short period of time. As exemplified in Figure 1, large-scale grid systems, hereafter termed as the "supergrid," have been superimposed upon the organic urban fabric of many historic urban areas around the world for their modernization (e.g., Bianca 2000;Whitehand et al 2011;Millan-Gómez, Mella, and López-Moreno 2012;Alobaydi and Rashid 2017;Al-Saffar 2018), and especially in developing nations, considerations for such planning and development of supergrids over historic street patterns are still an ongoing tendency (Whitehand et al 2011;Ibrahim and Omer 2014;Khalil, Bileha, and Mortada 2016;Xie and Heath 2017).…”

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Evaluating the consequences of supergrid developments with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns: a case study on early 20th century Seoul

Joo

Kwon

2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Planned supergrid developments are influential on both the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns and their spatial structures, but related discussions have so far remained largely at prescriptive or normative levels without an in-depth empirical basis. Through a case study on the historic city centre of Seoul by devising and applying a systematic framework of space syntax analysis incorporating relatively recent, less known but elaborate techniques, this study therefore empirically analysed the detailed spatioconfigurational changes that occur when such plans are implemented and evaluated what their consequences may be with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns. While a variety of empirical evidence presents the spatio-configurational mechanisms of the planned supergrid consistently facilitating the historic street system's modernization, results related to its conservation are mixed; the original spatial structure and order does become disrupted at the background and local-scale foreground levels but contrary to conventional perceptions it is spatially succeeded and expanded at the global-scale foreground level, and streets comprising the supergrid that had already existed before its development have a milder impact than newly constructed ones. Implications for the sustainable management and planning of historic street patterns and their spatial context are further discussed.

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Evaluating the consequences of supergrid developments with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns: a case study on early 20th century Seoul

Joo

Kwon

2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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“…The recent development of Middle Eastern and North African cities has been greatly influenced by Western urbanism, and is reflected in a division between the old‐traditional and the new‐modern urban fabrics (Abedi & Soltanzadeh, ; Alfasi, ; Ben Hamouche, , ; Elsheshtawy, ; Ibrahim & Omer, ). Much of the contradiction between the two types of urban area rests on the differences between their public spaces.…”

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When contradicting public space regimes collide: The case of Palestinian Israeli towns

Totry-Fakhoury

Alfasi

2018

Geographical Journal

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The logic, meaning, and functioning of public spaces differ substantially between cultures and places. While Western public spaces are affected by democratic urban regimes and enhanced commercialisation, public spaces in traditional Muslim, Middle Eastern cities that were originally supervised by the community according to cultural norms are not easily adapted to contemporary changes. This paper thus analyses the unique case of Palestinian Israeli towns, reflecting the coexistence of these two sets of ruling public spaces, also affected by global economic changes and national political complexities. These towns consist of two different built environments: old neighbourhoods based on hierarchic, socially affiliated public spaces and new neighbourhoods created by the Israeli modern planning system, strictly dividing public spaces from private ones. The analysis provides a comparative framework discussing how this emerging urban condition affects the performance of public spaces. In addition, it enables a new perspective on Palestinian society, torn between tradition and Westernisation.

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“…While there is some documentation of transformation of African villages into towns and cities going back to the colonization era and before, the processes and pace of change vary considerably. In Sudan, the transition is evident in current morphologies of Omdurman and Wad Medani where old neighborhood streets maintain the short and irregular pattern of villages (Ibrahim and Omer 2014;Winters 1977). Some cities originated from a coalescence of groups of villages, such as two to six villages for Sudanese cities of Shendi, Damer, El-Obeid and Berber during the 18 th and 19 th centuries (Burckhardt 1980;Crawford 1951;Pallme and Petherick 1980).…”

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Settlement in Transition: a Transformation of a Village into a Small Town in Western Sudan

2017

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UN-Habitat Projects Sub-Saharan Africa's global share of the urban population to increase from 11.3 per cent in 2010 to 20.2 percent by 2050. Yet little is documented about the underlying urbanizations processes, particularly of emergence of small towns. This article uses household interviews, focus groups, observation and secondary data to examine the spontaneous transformation of a Western Sudanese village, Shubbola, into a small town. We use changes in building construction approach, materials, and style as an indicator of develop, and provide rare documentation of the process, the main actors, choices taken, timescales and outcomes of the rapid urbanization of Shubbola between 2006 and 2013. Housing transformation was variable but involved a gradual process of replacing traditional non-durable building materials (wood and straw) with modern durable ones (sun-or fire-cured bricks, cement blocks and metal roofs). Unlike traditional top-down models of urbanization gen erally driven by government investment, Shubbola epitomizes an organic, bottom-up process dependent on self-reliance and agriculture development fueled by remittances from urban-based relatives. While many small towns with similar origins fail to do so, Shubbola already provided important urban services to its inhabitants and surrounding rural areas. The study enhances understanding of small towns and underlying urbanization processes, and their contribution to often neglected bottom-up, low-cost processes that do not fit traditional top-down models. It also contributes to literature and policy on sustainable cities and their role in sustainable development as encapsulated in UN Sustainable Development Goal 11. The study contributes to understanding the processes and implications of rapid urbanization in the Sudan and Africa, and other world regions.

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Evolution and changes in the morphologies of Sudanese cities

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Evaluating the consequences of supergrid developments with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns: a case study on early 20th century Seoul

Evaluating the consequences of supergrid developments with relation to the modernization and conservation of historic street patterns: a case study on early 20th century Seoul

When contradicting public space regimes collide: The case of Palestinian Israeli towns

Settlement in Transition: a Transformation of a Village into a Small Town in Western Sudan

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