A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Mapping heritage urbanism in Tel Aviv-Yafo: spatial, morphological and social evolution in the historic urban landscape
This thesis investigates urban evolution in Tel Aviv-Yafo’s historic urban landscape. The research uses historical, spatial, morphological and social analysis to frame and question contemporary configurational, morphological and social properties to examine how historical socio-political conditions in Tel Aviv-Yafo impacted on emergent spaces of activity over time. The research is positioned within, and seeks to advance, the field of heritage urbanism syntax by contributing a social heritage layer as an urban component, alongside the existing components of configuration and morphology. The thesis draws on theories and methods from space syntax, urban morphology, and geography, and employs methods and tools from these fields to explore urban evolution and transformation over time. The research adopts a landscape-based approach firstly to discuss the evolution of Tel Aviv-Yafo’s regional network and secondly to examine the heritage gateway-pathway that links historic Jaffa to Tel Aviv. The gateway-pathway – a transect sample – is used as a tool to track properties of the historic urban landscape and to explore mechanisms of change in urban space. This is related to the impact on the perception and use of heritage space by individuals of different identities today. Analysis finds that individuals with different identities (specifically Arab and Jewish) inhabit, use and perceive space differently. Tel Aviv-Yafo’s spatial and morphological urban evolution has resulted in restricted urban residence, mobility and cognition for Arabs. Conversely, events and urban transformation appear not to impact Jewish cognition, behaviour and activities to the same degree. Historical processes of urban evolution appear to shape heritage patterns and spatial cultures that are identity contingent. The research is innovative in its historical breadth (over 200 years), comprehensive approach (focus on broader landscape and micro-morphological detail, interdisciplinary nature and integrated framework), and the scope of specialised ...
Mapping heritage urbanism in Tel Aviv-Yafo: spatial, morphological and social evolution in the historic urban landscape
This thesis investigates urban evolution in Tel Aviv-Yafo’s historic urban landscape. The research uses historical, spatial, morphological and social analysis to frame and question contemporary configurational, morphological and social properties to examine how historical socio-political conditions in Tel Aviv-Yafo impacted on emergent spaces of activity over time. The research is positioned within, and seeks to advance, the field of heritage urbanism syntax by contributing a social heritage layer as an urban component, alongside the existing components of configuration and morphology. The thesis draws on theories and methods from space syntax, urban morphology, and geography, and employs methods and tools from these fields to explore urban evolution and transformation over time. The research adopts a landscape-based approach firstly to discuss the evolution of Tel Aviv-Yafo’s regional network and secondly to examine the heritage gateway-pathway that links historic Jaffa to Tel Aviv. The gateway-pathway – a transect sample – is used as a tool to track properties of the historic urban landscape and to explore mechanisms of change in urban space. This is related to the impact on the perception and use of heritage space by individuals of different identities today. Analysis finds that individuals with different identities (specifically Arab and Jewish) inhabit, use and perceive space differently. Tel Aviv-Yafo’s spatial and morphological urban evolution has resulted in restricted urban residence, mobility and cognition for Arabs. Conversely, events and urban transformation appear not to impact Jewish cognition, behaviour and activities to the same degree. Historical processes of urban evolution appear to shape heritage patterns and spatial cultures that are identity contingent. The research is innovative in its historical breadth (over 200 years), comprehensive approach (focus on broader landscape and micro-morphological detail, interdisciplinary nature and integrated framework), and the scope of specialised ...
Mapping heritage urbanism in Tel Aviv-Yafo: spatial, morphological and social evolution in the historic urban landscape
Fox, Stella Caroline (author)
2022-04-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
The Historic Urban Landscape. Managing Heritage in an Urban Century
| British Library Online Contents | 2014