Formāts: Hardback, 308 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 725 g, 1 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 76 Halftones, black and white
Grāmatu piegādes laiks ir 3-4 nedēļas, ja grāmata ir uz vietas izdevniecības noliktavā. Ja izdevējam nepieciešams publicēt jaunu tirāžu, grāmatas piegāde var aizkavēties.
Formāts: Hardback, 308 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 725 g, 1 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 76 Halftones, black and white
The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have been shaped and developed in two millenniums since the pre-Islamic era. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. These contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities to a new era and also to transform to a newly shaped social culture in which public has a voice. Gharipour considers what ties these projects to their historical context, and what regional and local elements and concepts have been used in their design.
Recenzijas
This collection of a dozen essays covers a variety of subjects (Cairo parks, Tehran parks, xeriscapes, and stonework among them). An interesting notion appears in chapter 2, in which James Wescoat Jr., ASLA, makes the case that even the concept of "landscape" in the Middle East is fairly recent. It refers to neither just gardens nor geography there, he says, but a combination of both.
Landscape Architecture Magazine
1 Urban landscape: public space and environment in cities of the contemporary Middle East
1
(21)
Mohammad Gharipour
2 Between garden and geography: landscape as an emergent concept in the wider Middle East
22
(23)
James L. Wescoat Jr.
3 In pursuit of a European city: competing landscapes of Eskisehir's riverfront
45
(22)
Kivanc Kilinc
Duygu Kacar
4 Inventing the seashore: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa promenade
67
(23)
Elissa Rosenberg
5 Sculpted landscape: the unbuilt public square of Islamabad
90
(30)
Farhan Karim
6 Paradise reconsidered: the early design history of Pardisan Park in Tehran
120
(29)
Kathleen John-Alder
7 Aspiring masonry: design thinking and experimental vernacularism in Ferdowsi Garden
149
(22)
Hooman Koliji
8 Cairo's urban parks: space, place, and meaning
171
(19)
Akel Ismail Kahera
9 Beyond greening: approaches to the contemporary landscape in the United Arab Emirates
190
(17)
Kevin Mitchell
10 Contemporary landscape as urbanism: emergent ecologies of the Doha Corniche
207
(24)
Anna Grichting
11 The sovereign global city: Omani post-traditional landscape urbanism
231
(26)
Hala F. Nassar
Robert Hewitt
12 Epilogue: urban landscapes and future sustainable urban qualities in Middle Eastern cities
257
(12)
Ashraf M. Salama
Bibliography
269
(19)
Biographies
288
(5)
Index
293
Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. He obtained his masters in architecture from the University of Tehran and his Ph.D. in architecture and landscape history at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He has received several fellowships and awards and published six books including Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts. He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
