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