People Are Not an Image : Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring (9781788733199) by Snowdon Peter

Author:Snowdon, Peter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Digital Dist

In his account of the premodern city of Cairo, Mitchell figures this space as an accumulation of different levels and moments of enclosure:

… building usually involved opening up an enclosure, such as a courtyard enclosed by rooms or columns … . The house, or the shared housing in the case of poorer dwellings, then expanded around this enclosure, in whatever shape and size the presence of neighbouring buildings allowed. Its generally blank and irregular exterior seldom corresponded to the shape, or represented the purpose, of its carefully oriented interior. In this sense, there were no exteriors, and the city was never a framework of streets on which structures were placed. As we will see, streets too were enclosures. The city was the spacing of intervals or enclosures forming a continuous materiality.15

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