Persian Historic Urban Landscapes: Interpreting and Managing Maibud over 6000 Years

Eisa Esfanjary

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

Persian Historic Urban Landscapes

Interpreting and Managing Maibud over 6000 Years

Eisa Esfanjary

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474412797

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About this book

The first urban study of the Iranian city of Maibud over its 6000-year history

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.

Key Features

Organised in three main parts: a conceptual framework; the case study of Maibud; and an explanation of its wider significances, and potential policy applications
Sheds new light on the development of one of ancient world’s oldest, yet least known, living cities in Iran, supported by highly original and convincing analysis
Features case studies with new evidence, which require us to re-evaluate our understanding of urbanism not just in Iran but also in the wider Islamic world
Illustrated with many images including maps, plans, line drawings, watercolours and colour photos

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Glossary Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
PART I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Intellectual Boundaries: Developing Conservation Consciousness towards the Historic Urban Landscape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3 Urban Morphology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PART II CASE STUDY: MAIBUD (MEYBOD)
4 Maibud’s Historic Urban Landscape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5 Town Plan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6 Building Type and Layering Processes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
7 Materiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
PART III SYNTHESIS
8 Interpretations and Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 134 colour illustrations maps, plans, line drawings and photos
Keywords: Islamic Studies

eBook

Published: October 31, 2017
ISBN: 9781474412797