Cities as Built and Lived Environments : : Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 to 2011 / / Aptin Khanbaghi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Khanbaghi, Aptin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Muslim Civilisations Abstracts : MCA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abstracts in English --; Abstracts in Turkish --; Abstracts in Arabic
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474469814; 9783110780451
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474469814
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Aptin Khanbaghi.

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsA collection of over 200 abstracts of research publications on cities, translated into three languagesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748696185','ISBN:99780748696192');From Tehran in Iran to Istanbul in Turkey, and from Herat in Afghanistan to Khartoum in Sudan, the rich diversity of the Muslim world is strikingly expressed through its myriad of cities. This reference volume presents over 200 abstracts of scholarship examining cities as both built and lived environments. They deal with the important subjects such as urban growth in the last 50 years, infrastructure and the environment and migration from rural areas. The historical periods covered span from the Umayyad Caliphate to the present day.Each abstract is presented in English, Arabic and Turkish, opening up this body of scholarship to new audiences. These abstracts demonstrate how much cities have varied between countries and over time."