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Impact on the Islamic City of Tunisia with the Coming of the European System of Urban Regulation |
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| Creator | Hamza ZEGHLACHE |
| Title | Impact on the Islamic City of Tunisia with the Coming of the European System of Urban Regulation |
| Publisher | TUENGR Group |
| Publication Year | 2560 |
| Journal Title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| Journal Vol. | 8 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 99-113 |
| Keyword | Traditional architecture, Colonialism, French city design, Dynamic synthesis urbanism. |
| URL Website | http://tuengr.com |
| Website title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| ISSN | 2228-9860 |
| Abstract | This review paper is an attempt to grasp the cultural conception of the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia (the Islamic city) and the traditional urban regulations by a study of classical religious and architectural treatises of Islam. The Medina is a space closed to the world outside, emphasising the life within. The Medina's fundamental features (single principal gateway, ramparts) were the expression of a single quality and order of things, a characteristic of the traditional ideology. This one is based on a homology in which ritual, space, language, person, and object come to be a single order of an integral whole; characterized by the interrelationship of worldly elements, of natural and supernatural orders in which the Medina was embedded and by which men attempted to attain social and cosmic order. Deviating from this synchronic understanding of the traditional conception of the Medina, this paper will next focus on the impact of non-Islamic urban regulations resulting from the diachronic process of colonial domination as represented in particular by the nineteenth century, French city design. This impact is viewed, in this paper, as a radical alteration of the face of the Medina in so far the essential feature of this design as the "opening up" of the Medina, for it erected a exposed-open plaza where once stood the singular gateway, and connected this one, a symbol of openness, by a network of broad avenues, with every corner of the city. This process is seen as a dynamic synthesis emerging out of an antithetical ideological and spatial dialogue in which alone the city and its citizenry must survive. |
