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Virtual Cairo: An Urban Historian's View of Computer Simulation

Published:1999-04 Issue:2 Volume:32 Page:93-100
ISSN:0024-094X
Container-title:Leonardo
language:en
Short-container-title:Leonardo

Author:

AlSayyad Nezar¹

Affiliation:

1. (architect, planner and urban historian), 390 Wurster Hall, CEDR, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1839, U.S.A.

Abstract

Recent advances in computer-visualization technology have brought urban historians new tools for analyzing the growth of historic cities. This paper examines both the prospects and problems involved in using this technology to map the development of urban form. Using a computer model of Cairo in two different periods of the Middle Ages, the author has attempted to reconstruct the physical reality of the city and to animate the city so that modernday observers may experience its principal streets. While the work has shown computer simulation to be a significant tool for helping urban historians understand the built environments of the past, it has also exposed possible pitfalls in the seductive potential of such simulations.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Computer Science Applications,Music,Engineering (miscellaneous),Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Link

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/002409499553064

Reference8 articles.

1. For a detailed description of the formation of Cairo and several other major cities of the Arab world, see N. AlSayyad, Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).

2. For a comprehensive description of changes in this street, see N. AlSayyad, "Bayn al-Qasrayn: The Street between Two Palaces," in Z. Celik, D. Favro and R. Ingersoll, eds., Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1994).

3. AlSayyad [3] p. 74. For primary sources refer to A. Al-Baghdadi, Al-Ifadah wa Al-I'tibar, written 1204 A.D. (Cairo, 1946) and M. Ibn Sa'id, Kitab Al-Maghrib fi Hula Al-Maghrib, written 1243 A.D. (Cairo, 1950).

4. N. AlSayyad, The Streets of Islamic Cairo (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Aga Khan Program, 1981).

5. N. AlSayyad, "Modelling Traditional Islamic Cities," Mimar 12, No. 43 (June 1992).

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