Sayed Mahdi Khatami; Azadeh Jalali
Abstract
Baghdad was built as the new city and capital of the Abbasids by Mansour. Baghdad has played a role as the political, economic, cultural and scientific capital, and it was one of the most important cities derived from the ideals of the king powers as urban planning patterns. Therefore, the study of Baghdad ...
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Baghdad was built as the new city and capital of the Abbasids by Mansour. Baghdad has played a role as the political, economic, cultural and scientific capital, and it was one of the most important cities derived from the ideals of the king powers as urban planning patterns. Therefore, the study of Baghdad planning and analysis of urban structure is important. Written research about history of Baghdad has been done, but the innovation of this article is analyzing the structure of Baghdad in physical, political, economic and social dimensions. So, using the descriptive-historical research method, the structure of Baghdad was analyzed. The results show that circular Baghdad design is influenced by the worldview governing the macro structure and functional details, and it is interpretation of the concept of city-power (centrality of the world empire), city-state (capital of government), city-market (expansion of trade routes) and city-people (cultural movements and social groups).
