![]() ![]() Therefore, whatever the cause for the decline of environmentaly responsive housing may be, the clear result is that by the ends the twentieth century housing at Al-Madina Al-Monawarah has become a matter of personal preference, rather than a product of local tradition or resources. A relation between a house of Al-Madina and it’s environment has disappeared. Contemporary house designs including residential flats and even private villas neglected the old attitude towards vertical dimension, as house design have become a closed space without such a relation to the sky ( Fig. 16). |
Most of the institutional functions in Islamic cities were fulfilled by the Friday Mosque, the prime public |
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