Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-77035-3
Ph.D.
Architecture
University of Kansas
2017
The growth of many old Middle Eastern cities occurred in a somewhat spontaneous manner, without pre-planning, for several hundred years. In the recent decades, however, modern planning practices and models have been applied to these cities for controlling and managing their rapid expansions. The overlap between these two phases of the development of these old cities increased the complexity of their urban form over time, which presently exhibits itself in three different patterns: organic, modern, and hybrid (i.e. a pattern included both of organic and modern patterns).