Isfahan : architecture and urban experience in early modern Iran /
An interpretation of architecture and urbanism in seventeenth-century Isfahan, Iran, through the analytical lens of urban experience.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Buildings, landscapes, and societies ;
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Table of Contents:
- The medieval city : the lore of Isfahan and early Safavid developments
- Imperial plans and urban elites : the construction of Isfahan under Shah Abbas
- The new Isfahan : the Safavid garden city and its eco-urban design
- Sensing time and sound : clocks and the rhythms of urban life
- The visual order of the promenade : the Chaharbagh and its sensory landscape
- Inhabiting a cosmopolis : urban quarters and civic selves
- The city lyricized : architecture and literature in Safavid Isfahan
- Urban sights and discursive images : modes of visual and verbal engagement
- Solitary wandering and civic pleasures : a daylong journey in Isfahan.