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TOWN, CITIES AND PALACES IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM :city_sunset: (Fresh Water…
TOWN, CITIES AND PALACES IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM :city_sunset:
Influences
Reusing Byzantine and Sassanian structures/architecture 
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Anjar, based on Byzantine architecture
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Demascus - reused former roman city, as well as architecture (basilica) - use of basilica replicating Hagia Sophia in Constantinople?
Afra-Siyah - built a mosque and governors palace (dar al-imara), had to demolish pre existing structures
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Fresh Water and Sanitation
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City of Cordoba
Drainage system on roofs of the congregational mosque that fed into an underground system that fed orange trees
Renovated Roman aqueduct in 967 by Caliph Hakam II: the agricultural estates dictated the paths of the aqueduct
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Mandit al-Zahra'
System where water was taken down the slope through different channels into larger garden pools and supplied buildings
Drainage channels that took waste away from courtyards, latrines and roofs of buildings
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Fustat
Sections of aquaduct constructed during Umayyad, Abasid and Fatimid periods
finer houses supplied with water through pipes into fountains and basins with differences between drinking water and cooking/washing water
Urban structures from beginning to end
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Population growth- Cieza- Nucleation of population. Abandoned 12-13th C, point of saturation, over flowed with population. Narrow streets, houses on too of each other, buildings constantly getting taller, bad quality
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Consumption of material- societal progression of people, material culture from the wealthy, not from the "Slums"- Monumentality
(Example to link to) Rome, Pompeii, the wealthy monuments remain, the poor material culture dissolved.
When Coming to a new area they reuse settlements and develop with the buildings that are already there.
Portable archaeology, the transportation of artefacts to new places, showing migration patterns of the richer elite.
Nucleation of population around a point of power, centralising around something or someone of importance, growing the townscape/city scape in a circular motion
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