This book is an investigation into the stubborn endurance of tradition in the modern world.

Traditions: The 'Real', the Hyper, and the Virtual in the Built Environment is a continuation of ...

AlSayyad and Massoumi's text addresses the ways in which religion can affect the city, and indeed...

Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th century urbanism demonstrates a mov...

During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed one of its most dramatic periods of transformation...

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores ho...

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is tak...

Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming ...

The history of the Islamic world includes many unique cultural, religious, scientific, and archit...

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Na...