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The construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and meanings of urban (re-)organization (Syria).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and meanings of urban (re-)organization (Syria).
Author:	Wolf, Steven Charles.
Description:	556 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Chirstine Smith; Gulru Necipoglu.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 3842.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Art History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194478
ISBN:	9780542392795

The construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and meanings of urban (re-)organization (Syria).
Wolf, Steven Charles.

The construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and meanings of urban (re-)organization (Syria). - 556 p.

Advisers: Chirstine Smith; Gulru Necipoglu.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

Following the Ottoman consolidation of trade routes to the Persian Gulf in the 1530's, the city of Aleppo emerged as the principle emporium of East-West trade in the Levant. In subsequent decades, primarily through several waqf endowments set up by Ottoman officials, the urban center of Aleppo was radically rebuilt, the most concentrated and extensive transformation of an urban center in the Ottoman era. The urban fabric that resulted from these multi-functional endowments, though commissioned independently, is remarkable not only for its scale but for three unifying formal aspects. These include a reinvigoration of the Hellenistic grid, a shift from a principally north-south directionality to one aligned with the east-west Bab Antakiyya axis, and a "zoning-like" alignment of retail suqs, warehousing khans, and religious functions. This dissertation explicates these three aspects of Aleppo's city center, so strikingly at odds with common notions regarding the "Islamic" and pre-modern city.

ISBN: 9780542392795Subjects--Topical Terms:

212490
Art History.

The construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and meanings of urban (re-)organization (Syria).
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520 # $a Utilizing the endowment documents and other textual accounts from the period, the preceding urban fabric is roughly reconstructed, patrons' intents are illuminated, and a processual account of the development of the Ottoman city is made possible. This reveals a variety of critical factors, the most important of which are the aims of the Grand Vizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha to develop a network of communications through the empire, and patterns of formal and functional composition inherent in Ottoman architectural practice. These latter are contrasted with Mamluk practices, and both are found to embody distinct notions of city form and functionality, which, while different, are consistent, coherent and "rational". These conclusions have significant implications for urbanism "before urban theory"; they also attest to a degree of relative autonomy for the field of architecture. Secondary themes include the development of regional systems of architecture, and the inchoate development of a new Ottoman architectural type, a built "suq-street", with evident communicative and urban-integrative functions.
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