Gharipour Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-53407-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design

The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities to a new era and also in transforming to a newly shaped social culture in which the public has a voice. This book considers what ties these projects to their historical context, and what regional and local elements and concepts have been used in their design.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gharipour, Mohammad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The City and Urban Landscape: Shifting the Paradigm in Contemporary Middle East Settings (Mohammad Gharipour), 2. Between Garden and Geography: Landscape as an Emergent Concept in the Wider Middle East (James Wescoat), 3. In Pursuit of a European City: Competing Landscapes of Eskisehir’s Riverfront (Kivanç Kilinç and Duygu Kaçar), 4. Tayelet: Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s Seaside Promenade (Elissa Rosenberg), 5. Sculpted Landscape: The Unbuilt Public Square of Islamabad (Farhan Karim), 6. Paradise Reconsidered: The Early Design History of Pardisan Park in Tehran (Kathleen John-Alder), 7. Aspiring Masonry: Design Thinking of Experimental Vernacularism (Hooman Koliji), 8. Cairo’s Urban Parks: Space, Place and Meaning (Akel Ismail Kahera), 9. Greening the Desert: Contemporary Approaches to the Landscape in the UAE (Kevin Mitchell), 10. Contemporary Landscape as Urbanism: Future Ecologies of the Doha Corniche (Anna Grichting Solder), 11. The Sovereign Global City: Omani Post-Traditional Landscape Urbanism (Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt), 12. Epilogue (Ashraf M. Salama)

Über Autor(innen)

Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. He obtained his master’s in architecture from the University of Tehran and his Ph.D. in architecture and landscape history at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He has received several fellowships and awards and published six books including Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.