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By Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

ISBN-10: 1138567329

ISBN-13: 9781138567320

ISBN-10: 1409445372

ISBN-13: 9781409445371

The hawari of Cairo - slender non-straight alleyways - are the elemental city devices that experience shaped the medieval urban on account that its beginning again in 969 advert. until eventually early within the C20th, they made up the first city divisions of the town and have been residential in nature. modern hawari, against this, are more and more ruled through advertisement and commercial job. This medieval city maze of tremendous brief, damaged, zigzag streets and lifeless ends are defensible territories, robust associations, and significant social structures. whereas the hawari were studied as an exemplar for city constitution of medieval Islamic urbanism, and as person development typologies, this ebook is the 1st to envision intimately the socio-spatial perform of the structure of domestic within the urban. It investigates how humans reside, speak and relate to one another inside of their homes or shared areas of the alleys, and in doing so, to discover numerous new socio-spatial dimensions and meanings during this architectural shape. In an try to re-establish the hyperlink among structure earlier and current, and to appreciate the altering social wishes of groups, this e-book uncovers the thought of domestic as vital to appreciate structure in any such urban with lengthy historical past as Cairo. It to start with describes the ancient improvement of the household areas (indoor and outdoor), and gives an inclusive research of areas of daily actions within the hawari of outdated Cairo. It then broadens its research to different elements of the town, highlighting diverse customs and representations of domestic within the urban at huge. Cairo, within the context of this e-book, is represented because the so much refined city centre within the center East with varied and infrequently contrasting methods to the structure of domestic, as a tradition and spatial method. which will examine the complexity and interconnectedness of the parts and components of the hawari as a 'collective home', it layers its narratives of architectural and social advancements as a family surroundings over the last 2 hundred years, and in doing so, explores the in-depth social that means and function of areas, either deepest and public.

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