Isfahan : architecture and urban experience in early modern Iran / Farshid Emami

Author: Emami, Farshid
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Physical Description: xvii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.

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Buildings, landscapes, and societies ; 13.

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.

Summary

"An interpretation of architecture and urbanism in seventeenth-century Isfahan, Iran, through the analytical lens of urban experience"--

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