Cities As Built and Lived Environments
Subtitle: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 To 2011
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng; tur; ara
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780748696185
Subjects: Cities and towns, middle east; City planning, middle east; Islamic countries, history
Description: "From Tehran in Iran to Istanbul in Turkey, and from Herat in Afghanistan to Khartoum in Sudan, the rich diversity of the Muslim world is strikingly expressed through its myriad of cities. This reference volume presents over 200 abstracts of scholarship examining cities as both built and lived environments. They deal with the important subjects such as urban growth in the last 50 years, infrastructure and the environment and migration from rural areas. The historical periods covered span from the Umayyad Caliphate to the present day. Each abstract is presented in English, Arabic and Turkish, opening up this body of scholarship to new audiences. These abstracts demonstrate how much cities have varied between countries and over time."--