Eisa Esfanjary

Persian Historic Urban Landscapes (eBook, ePUB)

Interpreting and Managing Maibud over 6000 Years

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Persian cities are part of a corridor of civilisation with settlements straddling thousands of years. Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically. Maibud provides the basis from which a new interpretive approach is developed, being a city that has a history of several millennia yet has a scale that renders it manageable with archaeological remains that range across several phases of building development. An archetypal example of middle-sized Persian cities, it affords insights into the entire urban landscape and its spatial, functional and morphological iterations. Within this overall picture, a methodology is developed to explore various morphological elements of the city, the three key components of which are the town plan, the building type, and construction materials. The inter-relationships between these three components are explained in order to formulate an approach to support the management and conservation of the historic urban landscape.Combining a rigorous survey and observation of the standing structures with scarce archaeological and written sources, this book sheds light on Islamic urbanism in general and Islamic urbanism in Iran particularly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474412803
• Artikelnr.: 54671571

Autorenporträt

Eisa Esfanjary is currently an Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban Conservation at the Art University of Isfahan. His interests are principally concerned with: the historical development and evolution of towns and cities and understanding the underlying pattern of formation and transformation; how a particular settlement is structured and how it has matured; what features have been changed over time and what elements have been sustained in the urban landscape; and how best we can preserved what we have inherited.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Glossary
List of Illustrations
PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
1. Introduction
2. Intellectual Boundaries
3. Urban Morphology
PART TWO: CASE STUDY: MAIBUD
4. Maibud's Historic Urban Landscape
5. Town Plan
6. Building Type and Layering Processes
7. Materiality
PART THREE: SYNTHESIS
8. Interpretations and Conclusion
Bibliography.