Overview
- Addresses a very timely and relevant subject with a regional focus
- Covers a wide geographical area, including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Palestine (Gaza), Qatar, Syria, Uzbekistan
- Provides scientific material for a better understanding of the real-world issues that are useful for researches, practitioners and policy makers
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Urban Heritage and Cultural Identity
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Governing Urban Heritage
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Post-War Reconstruction and Urban Heritage
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Zooming In: Urban Heritage in Iran
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About this book
This book examines examples of contemporary situation of historic regions in the Middle East and its broader geographic context connected to the historic trade routes, offering cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral perspectives. The region is home to ancient settlements and early human endeavors to form cities, and across the region historic urban historic features, such as ancient city centers, still exist alongside contemporary ones. Many of those historic regions are along the Silk Roads. However, the urban continuity that once existed over generations in the physical and social paradigm have been interrupted by rapid urbanization, globalization and urban economic pressures, in addition to conflicts and frequent destructive natural hazards. It is often the case that dealing with such pressing issues in a historic city is more complex than dealing with those in newly built cities and urban areas. Based on carefully selected and updated papers from the Silk Cities 2017 International Conference, this book appeals to researches, practitioners and policy makers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Iradj Moeini is a senior lecturer in architecture in Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran―where he has obtained his MA―and a practising architect in London. Having obtained his PhD from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, on contemporary architecture theory and criticism, he is the author and co-author of numerous papers and two books, has also taught in Yazd, Tehran Azad, and Shariati universities, and worked in a range of Iranian and British practices in a professional capacity. A member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Iranian Comparative Arts Circle, he is also an amateur photographer and musician.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads
Book Subtitle: A Contemporary Reading of Urban Transformation of Historic Cities in the Middle East and Beyond
Editors: Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22762-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22761-6Published: 01 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22764-7Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22762-3Published: 10 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 107 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Cultural Heritage, Natural Hazards, Area Studies, Cultural Geography