Persian Historic Urban Landscapes

Interpreting and Managing Maibud Over 6000 Years

Eisa Esfanjary (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1278-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Eisa Esfanjary is currently an Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban Conservation at the Art University of Isfahan.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsGlossaryList of Illustrations

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 1. Introduction 2. Intellectual Boundaries3. Urban Morphology

PART TWO: CASE STUDY: MAIBUD4. Maibud’s Historic Urban Landscape5. Town Plan6. Building Type and Layering Processes7. Materiality

PART THREE: SYNTHESIS8. Interpretations and Conclusion

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	21 B&W illustrations, 50 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 276 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4744-1278-5 / 1474412785
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-1278-0 / 9781474412780
Zustand	Neuware