Mohammed, Gamal and Mahmoud, Noha (2019) 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 Open, 9 (1). ISSN 2158-2440

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social interaction, urban code, shared responsibility, social responsiveness, spatial from, edges of the space
Divisions:	Faculty of Design
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2019 21:48
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2021 18:47
URI:	https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2448

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