| Title |
A Study on the Urban Spatial Structure of Islamic World |
| Keywords |
이슬람의 도시 ; 페즈 ; 도시공간구조 ; 관념체계 Islamic City ; Fez ; Urban Spatial Structure |
| Abstract |
This is a study on traditional Islamic cities, expecting to provide better understanding on theorders and concepts underlying the spatial structure of the cities. The essential purpose of thestudy is to look into the deep-rooted human factors which gave birth to a specific type ofurban environments. The morphological characteristics of Islamic cities are extracted asfollow: First, Mosque as a space of divinity and the other areas as spaces of people are clearlyseparated demonstrating bipolar spatial pattern. Second, the formal structure of Islamic citiesis represented as ‘multi-functional core structure’, where mosques act as cores of religious,political, and social activities, and spatially interrelated with bazaars and public facilities.Traditional cities in Muslim cultures clearly represent the ‘organic structure’, where self-supported cells are collected to form a whole organic entity. This characteristic urbanstructure is the result of three-dimensional projection of their religious belief system that‘every person is equal under God’. Urban form of Islam is a mirror of a spiritual universewhich integrates man in a meaningful order showing the very fact that his small personalworld is in harmony with much larger reality. |