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As the tide of globalization grows in sway and influence, are the built environments of the world's cities at risk of homogenization? Here, leading scholars evaluate the challenges of architecture and urban planning in Muslim societies, investigating the signs of the homogenizing processes within urban spaces. The book argues that homogenization risks limiting - even denying - transformations in Muslim societies beyond narrow dichotomies of modernism versus tradition. The possibility that representations of modernity in cities around the world will create an extensive uniformity in urban planning and the ways in which people live in different societies is arousing considerable criticism and debate. The book identifies the factors which have generated homogenization, and explores the interrelationship between social issues, the public sphere and the urban environment, and also considers where there have been movements towards differentiation, resistance and heterogenization. This is valuable reading for students and scholars with an interest in architecture, urban planning, the built environment, and questions of modernity in the Muslim world and beyond.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Preface: Farrokh Derakhshani List of Contributors Introduction: Modjtaba Sadria Section One: Foundations 1. Globalisation and Homogenisation: The State of Play - Anthony King 2. The Anxiety Concerning Cultural Homogenization - Ian Angus 3. The Homogenisation of Urban Space - Modjtaba Sadria Section Two: Building Blocks 4. Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Homogenisation Processes in Architectural Representation - George Baird 5. Neither Homogeneity Nor Heterogeneity: Modernism's Struggles in The Muslim World - Nezar AlSayyad 6. Generative Copies: Modernist Architecture and Urbanism in Brazil - James Holston 7. Why is Contemporary Islamic Architecture Risking Banality? - Nasser Rabbat Section Three: Building Bridges 8. A Research Agenda for the AndAnd - Mari Fujita 9. Defiant Ambivalence: Globalization, Architecture, and Urbanism - Jyoti Hosagrahar 10. Homogeneity of Representations: Salvation or Menace? - Abidin Kusno 11. Fragmented Representations: A Critique of Cross-border Homogeneity in the Built Environment - Mohammad al-Asad 12. Evaluating Lived Landscapes and Quotidian Architecture of Muslim Devon - Arijit Sen 13. Commentary: Homogeneity and Heterogeneity? - Ed Soja 14. Heterogeneities and Enriching Encounters - Rebecca Williamson List of Workshop Participants Summary of Discussions

About the Author :
Dr Modjtaba Sadria is Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848856257
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 499 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1848856253
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2012
  • Height: 260 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Width: 185 mm


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