Title & Author:

From madina to metropolis : heritage and change in the Near Eastern city / edited by L. Carl Brown.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Darwin Press, ©1973.

Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Series:

Princeton studies on the Near East

Notes:
Based on papers presented at a conference entitled Urban planning and urban prospects in the Near East and North Africa held at Princeton University in April 1970.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / L. Carl Brown -- Traditional Muslim cities : structure and change / Ira P. Lapidus -- The traditional city of Herat, Afghanistan / Paul English -- Cairo : Perspective and prospectus / Janet Abu-Lughod -- Urbanization and urbanism in Beirut : some preliminary results / Samir Khalaf and Per Kongstad -- The socio-economic evolution of the inhabitants of a desert city : the case of Omdurman / Karol Krotki -- Kuwait : a case study / Saba George Shiber -- Evolution of concepts of housing, urbanism, and country planning in a developing country : Morocco, 1900-1972 / Jean Dethier -- Evolution of spatial organization in the Ottoman empire and Turkish republic / Ilhan Tekeli -- The care of historic monuments and sites in Turkey / Cevat Erder -- Muslim cities : old and new / Richard Ettinghausen -- Constancy, transposition and change in the Arab city / Hassan Fathy.

Summary:

The 11 papers comprising this book were prepared for a conference on Urban Planning and Urban Prospects in the Near East and North Africa held at Princeton University in 1970. Eight Euramericans and five Near Easterners, whose disciplines include history, sociology, demography, architecture, urban planning, and geography, offer their perceptions of Near East-North African madinas "traditional cities" and emerging metropolises. Each author argues that a better understanding of and a greater appreciation for the sociocultural aspects of traditional cities will contribute to the discovery of solutions to the many human problems confronting today's metropolises. -- From http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 1, 2016).

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0878500065 (pbk.)
9780878500062 (pbk.)
0878500073 (pbk.)
9780878500079 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Middle East.
Urbanization Middle East.
City planning Middle East.
Sociology, Urban Middle East.
Architecture Middle East History.
15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other.
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization.
Steden.
Urbanisme.
Civilisation.
Cities and towns Near East.
Middle East.
Métropolis (ville ancienne)
Médine (Arabie saoudite)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Brown, L. Carl (Leon Carl), 1928- editor.
Brown, Leon Carl, 1928-
Princeton studies on the Near East.

Heritage and change in the Near Eastern city

Holdings:

Location: Library main 64661
Call No.: ID:85-B8793
Status: Available