Author: Hamid Turki Haykal
Abstract: During the recent war in Mosul, a relationship between security and urban fabric began to materialize, specifically in the old part of the city where streets are narrow, structure is dense, and layout is random. In this paper, this study attempts to highlight the necessity to revise and update the local urban discourse to see whether such relationship has been discussed or not. As these terms form the main features of traditional areas and informal neighborhoods, Literature concerning these two domains, is examined such that different attitudes imbedded in the discourse related to specific terms are explored. The study concludes that local urban discourse did not address the relationship between these physical elements on one hand and the security on other hand coherently. While articles about informal neighborhoods focused on this relationship, other articles about traditional urban fabric have ignored it completely. These two sets of articles adopted contradicting attitudes toward the studied elements.
Keywords: Traditional Urban Fabric, Informal Neighbourhoods, Local Urban Discourse, Security
doi: 10.23918/icad2018.p1
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