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• An Urban Code in Traditional Middle Eastern Contexts: The Edge Environment as a Central Theme for Reading the Social Pattern Language of Historic Sites

  SAGE

  This article discusses a new concept that may help professionals and specialists read the “urban code” of Middle Eastern traditional contexts that was developed from the mix of social aspect and spatial morphology, illustrating how these elements are interconnected in a way that highlights the values and qualities and their reflections on the physicality of the city. This urban code envisions and analyses the relevance of the social pattern language of the traditional context to its urban manifestation, leaning on the “edge environment” as a new generative concept. It outlines the relationship between the ideologies buried underneath the walls of the spatial form of traditional built environment such as Cairo and sheds light on those ideologies in a way that helps us read them within the context of modern values pertained to the sense of community. The notion of the edge environment may contribute to design education restoration, preservation, and upgrading processes as design toolkit that employs careful interventions by fine-tuning the edge environment.

• An Urban Code in Traditional Middle Eastern Contexts: The Edge Environment as a Central Theme for Reading the Social Pattern Language of Historic Sites

  SAGE

  This article discusses a new concept that may help professionals and specialists read the “urban code” of Middle Eastern traditional contexts that was developed from the mix of social aspect and spatial morphology, illustrating how these elements are interconnected in a way that highlights the values and qualities and their reflections on the physicality of the city. This urban code envisions and analyses the relevance of the social pattern language of the traditional context to its urban manifestation, leaning on the “edge environment” as a new generative concept. It outlines the relationship between the ideologies buried underneath the walls of the spatial form of traditional built environment such as Cairo and sheds light on those ideologies in a way that helps us read them within the context of modern values pertained to the sense of community. The notion of the edge environment may contribute to design education restoration, preservation, and upgrading processes as design toolkit that employs careful interventions by fine-tuning the edge environment.

• The Edge Environment in Traditional Cairo An Anatomical Approach to Reading the Social Pattern Language of the Middle Eastern Built Environment

  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

  It is my great pleasure to introduce to you my book titled " The Edge Environment in Traditional Cairo: An Anatomical Approach to Reading the Social Pattern Language of the Middle Eastern Built Environment” is NOW published. The book explores new methodologies and techniques that are needed for listed and designated building and urban morphology within traditional centres in the Middle Eastern cities suggesting, with more modifications, a modified form of a pattern language approach to be applied to Western historic city centres. This is supported by two types of case studies, shallow case studies or quickly assessed case studies from traditional built environment particularly from Northern African cities like Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco et..... and 3 core case studies from traditional Cairo. It is a new contribution to Architectural and Urban Morphology within social sustainability. Therefore, I think researches, architects and urban designers who are interested in upgrading and conservation programs will find it more interesting and useful. The book is full of drawings, sketches (observational graphical analysis which is the main analytical methods used), diagrams, and hi-res photos.