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Re-imaging the City

A New Conceptualisation of the Urban Logic of the “Islamic city”

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Authors:
  1. Somaiyeh Falahat

    1. Zentrum für Technik und Gesellschaft, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-11
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  2. The Model of ‘Islamic City’

    • Somaiyeh Falahat
    Pages 7-49

  3. The Idea of Labyrinth

    • Somaiyeh Falahat
    Pages 51-71

  4. Discovering the City

    • Somaiyeh Falahat
    Pages 73-180

  5. Towards a New Terminology

    • Somaiyeh Falahat
    Pages 181-206

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 207-216
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Zentrum für Technik und Gesellschaft, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Somaiyeh Falahat

About the author

Somaiyeh Falahat is a senior researcher and lecturer based at Technische Universität Berlin.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Re-imaging the City

  • Book Subtitle: A New Conceptualisation of the Urban Logic of the “Islamic city”

  • Authors: Somaiyeh Falahat

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04596-8

  • Publisher: Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-04595-1Published: 30 December 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-04596-8Published: 09 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Architecture, general, Architectural History and Theory, Urbanism

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