Cities and Metaphors
Subtitle: Beyond Imaginaries of Islamic Urban Space
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 18, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415728225
Description: 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.?
Notes: Source title: Cities and Metaphors: Beyond Imaginaries of Islamic Urban Space (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)