Overview

This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended social, political, and religious role while adapting to their local climates. Through Archival research and social science methodologies, this book records and maps markets in urban fabrics, expanding on practices underlying the push towards historical listings and the development of markets as landmarks in the urban fabric. The role of markets in delivering sustainable place-making strategies and influencing the development of cities’ socio-economic and historical strength is addressed as key to their survival in the urban fabric and as place-making landmarks for preserving tangible and intangible heritage. Going beyond heritage and conservation studies, this book discusses how positioning and restoring markets challenges urban renewal policies, access to public space planning, environmental sustainability, security of food supply, cultural heritage, and tourism. This is an ideal read for those interested in the history of urban development, architecture and urban planning, and architectural heritage.

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Author:   Neveen Hamza
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780367697815

ISBN 10:   0367697815
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   05 September 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I: MARKETS AS ARCHITECTURE: MARKET HALLS PROMPTING SOCIAL MIXOPHILIA or MIXOPHOBIA? Chapter 1: Pivoting Hegemonies, Urban Grids and Socialities: Attaba Market Hall in Khedive Cairo, Egypt. Chapter 2: Bazaar Abbas, Port Said, Egypt: A Nineteenth Century Market Building and Centre of Cultural Exchange. Chapter 3: The Nineteenth Century La Lyre Market Hall in Algiers: Lessons and Future Directions. Chapter 4: The Central Market in Tunis: Fondouk Al-Ghalla. Chapter 5: Urban and Architectural Ambiances’ Complexity in The Nineteenth Century Colonial Markets: The Case of The Saharan City of Biskra, Algeria. PART II: MARKETS AS ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITY AND PLACE MEMORY. Chapter 6: The Souks of Aleppo, Syria: Reconstructing Place Identity. Chapter 7: Beyond the Gates: Extending the Markets of Fatmid Cairo to Al-Khayamiya Bazaar. Chapter 8: The Functional Urbanism of Souk Al-Silah, Cairo: The Political and Economic Impact on trade in a Medieval Urban Fabric. Chapter 9: The Souk and the Foundouk: the Genesis of the Markets and Medinas of Morocco. Chapter 10: Timcheh Bakhshi: Morpho-Cultural Evolution of a Lost Timcheh in a Persian Bazaar. PART THREE III: MARKETS AS URBAN SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE FOR SOCIAL HARMONY. Chapter 11: Relational Space, Sustainable Place: The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. Chapter 12: Sustainability of Historical Bazaars: Bursa Historical Bazaar and Khans’ District in Turkey. Chapter 13: Souk Mutrah: A Hub for Cultural Exchange in the Gulf of Oman. Chapter 14: Souk Daniel, Al-Kifil, Iraq: Intersecting Trade and Religion. Chapter 15: Abu-Dhabi: Two Souks and the Space in Between. Index.

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Neveen Hamza is a Reader in Architecture, Energy and Wellbeing at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. She has over 100 publications linking the research fields of architectural design, environmental psychology, and building environmental performance. She has won architectural design awards and also works as a consultant in the UK in the area of sustainable architectural design. She is a board member on the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust, UK and the International Building Performance Simulation Association-England. She is the principal investigator on a number of research-funded projects, of which the most relevant to this book is the British principal investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-UK funded project ‘Sustainable Green Markets’.

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