THE OLD CITY GATES IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF CONTEMPORARY CITY: EXPLORING THE MEMORIAL ROOTS

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Journal: HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA Year:2006 | Volume:- | Issue:27 Page(s): 17-26

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THE OLD CITY GATES IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF CONTEMPORARY CITY: EXPLORING THE MEMORIAL ROOTS

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COLLECTIVE MEMORIESQ3

SENSE OF PLACEQ3

MEMORIAL ROOTSQ3

CITY GATEQ3

THE OLD CITY GATES OF SHIRAZQ3

Abstract

This article is an attempt to specify the CITY GATE as an important element in the collective memory of the modern city and to follow the "memorial roots" of the gate. In old cities, gates act as thresholds of transition between inner core of the city and the peripheral sectors.Showing common memories and city events, these places have confronted to modernization, population increase, industrial development, etc. By destroying the old walls in the modern city, gates have collapsed, but their place has always reflected memories. This fact could be an advantage for improving the city legibility and supporting people by improving the civil identity that encourages their local and civic pride. This article concentrates on the three aspects of gates: semantic, historical and functional aspect. Gates and their environment are places, which belong to public and the main purpose of their renovation would be to regenerate this feeling that one could be an active member of a society and have many souvenirs of his city's past. For this approach by reviewing the process of gate's evolutions, finding the MEMORIAL ROOTS of the old CITY GATEs are practicable. As our case study has been conducted in Shiraz, we can consider the MEMORIAL ROOTS of the old CITY GATEs in seven periods. These periods are Al-e-Buye (eight gates), Atabakan (nine gates), Safavide (nine gates), Zandieh (six gates), Quajar (six gates & three Kals), Pahlavi and contemporary period.In Shiraz of early 1930s changes have rapidly occurred. Since the gate nodes relay the new and old fabric of cities in a mutual connection, the revitalization of these nodal points has an important impact on the memorial framework.Accordingly, We can consider three different categories for the CITY GATEs MEMORIAL ROOTS; formal, formal- conceptual, and conceptual-memorial. In their formal life period, gates are usually used as defensive and economical elements. Their place and name might be changed through this period of their life. In formal-mental period of the gates' life, accompanied by physical and historical ruptures, their name has changed into urbanistic and technical terms such as square, intersection, etc. Finally, and as an ultimate stage, in the mental-memorial period, gates have substantially changed; there are no more gates visible in the city but it is a common memory that has remained. Nevertheless, the important point is the effectiveness of the concept of old gates in the emergence of COLLECTIVE MEMORIES. This article first explores the CITY GATE and its environs as a particular symbolic place in the city structure. Thereupon by reviewing the historic evolution of old CITY GATEs in Shiraz and the origins of people's collective memory, we can make a deduction in which we verify the importance of the concept of threshold and territory in the existence of the old urban fabric and its relation with the new one. As a final result, one can deduce that the relationship between the olden and the new urban fabric could be reestablished by maintaining the continuity of the MEMORIAL ROOTS and reinforcing the SENSE OF PLACE.

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SHOLEH, M.. (2006). THE OLD CITY GATES IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF CONTEMPORARY CITY: EXPLORING THE MEMORIAL ROOTS. HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA, -(27), 17-26. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/5743/en

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SHOLEH M.. THE OLD CITY GATES IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF CONTEMPORARY CITY: EXPLORING THE MEMORIAL ROOTS. HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA[Internet]. 2006;-(27):17-26. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/5743/en

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M. SHOLEH, “THE OLD CITY GATES IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF CONTEMPORARY CITY: EXPLORING THE MEMORIAL ROOTS,” HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA, vol. -, no. 27, pp. 17–26, 2006, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/5743/en

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