| Morphological Analysis of Nineteenth-century Cairo |
| Paper ID : 1154-ICRSSSA |
| Authors |
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Naoko Fukami1, Susumu Sato2, Yuta Arai3, Takenori Yoshimura4, Yuko Abe5, Wakako Kumakura *2 1JSPS Research Station, Cairo 2Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 3Waseda University 4Faculty of International Relations, Daito Bunka University 5Sophia University |
| Abstract |
| This study analysed the structure of urban spaces in historic Cairo in the nineteenth century based on the connectivity between streets and living spaces. The analysis was based on a combination of textual and cartographic information. First, the arterial streets in the subject area were identified by the descriptions in al-Khiṭaṭ al-Tawfīqīya. Second, they were located on the 1:500 housing map created in 1938. Third, the degree of the relations within the urban structure was visualised according to the Space Syntax theory. The morphological aggregates were classified into two types: those that connected to the arterial streets at only one point and those that connected to them at several points. Moreover, for both types, the aggregates may have had only a single name, or multiple names and been segmented by name. Thus, by using the concept of connectivity embodied by an arterial street, we supposed that the morphologically diverse parts of the street (such as lengths, bends, cul-de-sacs), became a unit, each with a connection to the building sites and constituted a mass as a living space. Comparing these masses as spaces with the conventional model showed that they were not necessarily homogeneous aggregates consisting of a set of cul-de-sacs. They were composed of a variety of types of streets. Moreover, the arterial streets that linked these sets of streets together created a stratified mass of living spaces and complex urban fabric. |
| Keywords |
| Historic Cairo, morphological analysis, the space syntax theory, axial analysis, connectivity |
| Status: Accepted (Oral Presentation) |
