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In this chapter of the historical part, part I identifies socio-spatial and cultural aspects of the historic towns. It considers historic towns as a collection of homogenous neighborhoods including structural and functional elements typical of Islamic towns inside and outside Iran. Integrated neighborhoods were bounded together by ties of climate, culture, custom and beliefs, and art. The comparative study in this chapter shows structural similarity between some African, Asian, and Iranian cities, but as shown in Chaps. 3 and 4, Iranian cities in the hot arid environment, because of clarity and character of desert life, demonstrate a legible structure.
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For detailed information of the city of Baghdad, see Creswell (1958), pp. 161–182. And on the point of view that design of Baghdad continued the royal tradition of Persia see Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped, op. cit., p. 184, and also D. Huff, A General Study… , op. cit., p. 181.
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Antioch was founded about 300 BC by Seleucus, one of the Alexander’s generals.
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A. Rapoport, op. cit., pp. 252–253. Also for an enlightening master work on a historic city, see Ross Burns, Damascus, Routledge, 2005.
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On the history and structural elements of Tripoli, see Warfelli (1976), pp. 2–18.
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For an analysis of spatial structure of two important Middle Asian Cities, see Giese (1979), pp. 145–165.
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In next chapter, neighborhoods and neighborhood centers in several typical cities in the hot arid zone of Iran are presented. Appropriate distance between neighborhood centers is notable.
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The first complete drawing of spatial structure of Tehran bazaar, including caravanserais, saras, mosques, and schools, was made by the author after field survey, for the First Detailed Plan of Tehran, at the office of the Mayor, Tehran Municipality in 1972. This drawing was introduced in Tavassoli and Bonyadi (1992), p. 62.
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For a considerable first study on the historic Citadel of Bam, see Nourbakhsh et al. (1976).
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Tavassoli, M. (2016). Urban Structure in Islamic Territories. In: Urban Structure in Hot Arid Environments. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39098-7_2
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