Urban Rules and Processes Historic Lessons for Practice
Urban Rules and Processes Historic Lessons for Practice by Besim S. Hakim, published by EmergentCity Press in 2019, is a comprehensive exploration of historical urbanism and its relevance to contemporary practices. This 390-page book presents the author’s research conducted since the early 1980s, focusing on how lessons from traditional urbanism can inform modern city planning and development. The work is structured into three parts, addressing historic precedents, frameworks for applying these lessons, and the generative processes that underpin urban development.
Readers will find a detailed examination of the insights gained from societies around the Mediterranean basin, which are applicable to various global contexts. The book delves into architecture, public policy, and social history, offering a nuanced understanding of how historical practices can influence current urban strategies. Through its fifteen chapters, this edition provides a structured approach to learning from the past, making it a valuable resource for those interested in city planning and urban development.
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This book brings together the author’s research results since the early 1980s addressing the question on how to learn from the experience of historical/traditional urbanism applicable to our contemporary era and for the future. The book is structured into three parts for a total of fifteen chapters. The first part sets out the historic precedence, the second part presents a framework for recycling the relevant lessons with examples, and the third part concentrates on the underlying generative processes that is a crucial aspect of the author’s findings. Although the research was based in the context of societies surrounding the Mediterranean basin, the insight gained is relevant to other regions of the world.
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