1st Edition

Architecture and Urban Transformation of Historical Markets: Cases from the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By Neveen Hamza Copyright 2023
250 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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

Neveen Hamza, Dalila Elkerdany, Sahar Imam, Aliaa AlSadaty and Tamer ElSerafi

Chapter 2: Bazaar Abbas, Port Said, Egypt: A Nineteenth Century Market Building and Centre of Cultural Exchange

Aliaa AlSadaty

Chapter 3: The Nineteenth Century La Lyre Market Hall in Algiers: Lessons and Future Directions

Magda Sibley

Chapter 4: The Central Market in Tunis: Fondouk Al-Ghalla

Faïka Béjaoui

Chapter 5: Urban and Architectural Ambiances’ Complexity in The Nineteenth Century Colonial Markets: The Case of The Saharan City of Biskra, Algeria

Amar Bennadji, Azeddine Belakehal, Mohammed Seddiki and Kheira Tabet Aoul

PART II: MARKETS AS ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITY AND PLACE MEMORY

Chapter 6: The Souks of Aleppo, Syria: Reconstructing Place Identity

Hala Asslan, Husam AlWaer and Ahmad Khanji

Chapter 7: Beyond the Gates: Extending the Markets of Fatmid Cairo to Al-Khayamiya Bazaar H. Elnabawi, Neveen Hamza and Mohamed Abdeldayem Sultan

 

Chapter 8: The Functional Urbanism of Souk Al-Silah, Cairo: The Political and Economic Impact on trade in a Medieval Urban Fabric

Mohamed Soliman and Neveen Hamza

Chapter 9: The Souk and the Foundouk: the Genesis of the Markets and Medinas of Morocco

Hassane Kharmich and Khalid El Harrouni

 

Chapter 10: Timcheh Bakhshi: Morpho-Cultural Evolution of a Lost Timcheh in a Persian Bazaar

Poorang Piroozfar, Hamidreza Jayhani, Eric Farr, and Elmira Mahmoodi

 

PART THREE III: MARKETS AS URBAN SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE FOR SOCIAL HARMONY

Chapter 11: Relational Space, Sustainable Place: The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul

Müge Akkar Ercan

Chapter 12: Sustainability of Historical Bazaars: Bursa Historical Bazaar and Khans’ District in Turkey

Tulin Arslan, Havva Bozdag, and Selen Durak

 

Chapter 13: Souk Mutrah: A Hub for Cultural Exchange in the Gulf of Oman

Aliya Al-Hashim, and Hanan Al-Khatri

Chapter 14: Souk Daniel, Al-Kifil, Iraq: Intersecting Trade and Religion

Shatha Abbas Hasan

Chapter 15: Abu-Dhabi: Two Souks and the Space in Between

Deborah Bentley, Magdy M. Ibrahim

 

Index

Biography

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’.