That project represented an attempt to recycle the rules and know-how of the traditional system and adapt it to contemporary conditions on location in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

(6) “Arab-Islamic urban structure,” The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, 7/2 (1982): 69-79;  “The representation of values in traditional and contemporary Islamic cities,” Journal of Architectural Education, 36/4 (1983): 22-28; and the article “Islamic Architecture and Urbanism”, Encyclopedia of Architecture, vol.3 (New York, 1989): 86-103.

This was followed by a reliable scholarly verified edition by Abdul-Rahman al-Atram in 2 volumes, al-Ilan bi Ahkam al-Bunyan (Riyadh, 1995). An expanded version followed in Review 86, UPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, November 1986, pp. He has been researching and writing about traditional urban management and related codes from the Mediterranean region since 1975.

The ultimate goal is the creation of the necessary legislative and technical mechanisms that would ensure the achievement of high quality in the built environment of contemporary towns and suburbs, as well as the revitalization of historic and heritage districts.

Professor Hakim’s publications (books, articles and technical reports) cover the following areas of inquiry: Architectural Pedagogy, Culture and Built Form, and Urban Design/Planning.

He has practiced architecture and urban design and also taught those disciplines for over two decades, and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

His publications include two books, Arabic-Islamic Cities: Building and Planning Principles [1979] 1986, 1988, 2008, and Sidi Bou Sa’id, Tunisia: Structure and Form of a Mediterranean Village 1978, 2009, both of which are currently available in paperback from http://www.amazon.com.

All of these articles summarize and/or elaborate on the essential findings in the book and also address contemporary and future issues of cities in the Arab and wider Islamic worlds.

(7) The results of my research on the Urf were first published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Urbanism in Islam, Tokyo, Japan, October 1989, vol.

He has practiced architecture and urban design and also taught those disciplines for over two decades. Two cases are discussed there: Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1983, and Muharraq & Manama, Bahrain from early 2006.

(2) My lectures and personal interaction with academics and their students during the period 1977-1986 have influenced the content and outcome of a number of Ph.D.

Muslim scholars in Northern Nigeria and elsewhere in sub-Sahara Africa based their work on sources from North Africa and on earlier sources from al-Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula.

In October 2002 I was invited by the Congress for the New Urbanism to make a presentation at their annual Council conference on Byzantine and Islamic Codes, which was held that year in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

He has published a book titled Arabic-Islamic Cities: Building and Planning Principles, Kegan Paul International, London 1986, addressing the factors that shaped traditional cities in North Africa, with particular emphasis in identifying the underlying rules and customary practices. 2-6, in English), and then further refined and presented at the Second International Conference on Urbanism in Islam, November 1990, Tokyo, Japan, available in the proceedings volume (1994), pp.

For using that insight in practice, see my: “Generative processes for revitalizing historic towns or heritage districts”, Urban Design International, 12/2-3 (2007): 87-89. It was revised for publication and appeared six months later in the Council Report III/IV, 2003.(13)

In a keynote address to the First International Conference on Heritage, Globalization and the Built Environment, held in Bahrain on 6-8 December 2004, I addressed the issues of ecology, sustainability and learning from tradition.

There the emphasis was on integrating the knowledge from science, particularly ecological principles, with principles derived from traditional urbanism practice and the policies that are needed for our cities to achieve sustainability.(14)

I intend to continue with these efforts and sharpen my findings to make them more and more suitable and applicable to current and future practice.

A Farsi tranlsation was published in Tehran, 2002.

(4) For example: Ibn al-Rami’s manuscript was not available in published form when I worked with it. The world will be a much richer place for it.

 Source:  CharretteCenter.net

Notes

(1) Various publications are cited in the notes below.

The substance of this article was first presented in Tangiers, Morocco, June 1996, at the conference entitled: “The Living Medina: The walled Arab city in architecture, literature, and history,” sponsored by the American Institute of Maghribi Studies. His latest book published by Springer in September 2014, is titled Mediterranean Urbanism: Historic Urban/Building Rules and Processes, covers Greece, Italy, and Spain and a resume of the book is available at Springer.com.

Professor Hakim has also published extensively in professional and scholarly-refereed journals, and was responsible for planning projects, which were adopted by the respective local governments in Halifax, N.S.

and Albuquerque, NM.  His biography is published in Who’s Who in the World  and  Who’s Who in America. A revised version was subsequently published as chapter 7 of the book Islam and Public Law, ed. My continued work as a consultant for various projects, especially those located in historic towns and heritage districts of cities, will help achieve those goals.

The rules and design guidelines that were developed for the Muslim community in Abiquiu, New Mexico, in early 1981 were published in Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, New Orleans, March 1986, pp.