This volume outlines the urban development of seven cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Cairo, Casablanca, Dubai, Nouakchott, and Shiraz. Ottoman rule and colonial powers, French or British, operated differently and over various time spans in most of these cities to influence architecture and the urban scene. Global movements such as modernism and socialism reshaped the cityscapes of intersecting histories and cultures.
Maps, sketches, and other visuals trace the urban outcomes of Ottoman rule, colonial powers, and post-independence governments to show how they altered these cities. Class distinctions, informal settlements, and devalued built heritage are common urban issues that the cities of the MENA region still face today.
Focuses on political and social developments as they influence each city’s built environment
Discusses all types of built heritage and forms of architecture in the seven exemplary cities
Visualizes the urban development through many coloured maps, sketches, and charts
Pages: 231
Language: English
20 × 28 cm
8 illustrations, 43 col. ill.
Zeido Zeido is a researcher focused on the urban heritage of Europe and the MENA region. He is especially interested in heritage in the context of conflicts and urban development. Zeido received his doctoral degree for his thesis on the heritage of Aleppo city at the Chair of Architectural Conservation at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), where he remains an associated researcher. His research was supported by the generous funding of the Gerda Henkel foundation. He was also awarded funding from both the DFG Research Training Group 1913 and from the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning at BTU to publish this edited volume.
Suna Çağaptay is an associate professor of archaeology at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey. Trained as an archaeologist and architectural historian, she works on Late Byzantine, Early Ottoman, Crusader, and principality-period architecture and city-making practices in the Eastern Mediterranean and the afterlives of the ancient cities. She received numerous fellowships, fieldwork, and research grants, including the Dumbarton Oaks, Aga Khan Islamic Art and Architecture at MIT, ANAMED, and Barakat Foundation at the University of Oxford.