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2022-7-7

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Falak, Hareem

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Traditionally the cities have evolved incrementally, but the modern approach to urbanism created a rupture in this evolution process by idealizing the holistic creation of a new urban utopia and, in most cases, disregarding the existing urban context and history. Due to the new typologies introduced by the modern architecture and urban design policies, a controversial relationship morphologically arises between the modern and traditional fabrics. This can be observed best in the urban peripheries where the modern developments meet with the traditional urban fabric. Then the so-called in-between fields and fabrics represent the condition of “urban collision”. Those areas generally function as a buffer and maintain a balance between the two different urban orders. They could provide either cohesion or fragmentation within the whole (new and old) urban fabric. Sufficient literature is available on distinguishing the typologies of the modern and the traditional architecture and urbanism, but little research has been conducted on recognizing the spatial configurations between such dichotomies. This thesis aims at developing a conceptual framework for identifying the fields of urban collision and categorizing it in accordance with its relationship with the old and the new patterns of development. This framework following a morphological review of the VI world cities that accommodate such a close spatial encounter called ‗urban collision‘ further gives a detail insight. The research then morphologically examines the built form of the capital city of Islamabad and the traditional city of Rawalpindi along with other traditional villages around the modern city. Emergence of the collision areas is discussed regarding their social and economic implications. Accordingly, the modernist planning experience of Islamabad is assessed in consideration of the conception of urban collision.

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Urban collision, modern planning, traditional fabric, urban pattern

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98571

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis