Cities and metaphors: beyond imaginaries of Islamic urban space

In the context of Islamic city studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the urban space into a generic scientific framework. Phenomenological characteristics have consequently been ignored rather than integrated into theoretical components. The b...

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1. Verfasser: Falahat, Somaiyeh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London and New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
Ausgabe:First published
Schriftenreihe:Routledge research in planning and urban design
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Zusammenfassung:In the context of Islamic city studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the urban space into a generic scientific framework. Phenomenological characteristics have consequently been ignored rather than integrated into theoretical components. The book argues that this results from a lack of appropriate conceptual vocabulary in our global body of scholarly literature. It challenges existing theories, introduces and applies the urban concept of Hezar-tu to rethink the spaces of Fez, Isfahan and Tunis. This tool inverts the principles of conceptualising urban space and constructs a staging-post towards a different articulation based on in-between spaces rather than nodes, a logic of ambiguity rather than determinacy, and interior rather than exterior thinking.?
Beschreibung:Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 191 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781315851754
9781317916635
1317916638
DOI:10.4324/9781315851754