انتشارات: Palgrave Macmillan ، لندن، 2021
دکتر هوشمند علیزاده (دکتری طراحی شهری از دانشگاه نیوکاسل انگلستان) عضو پیوسته گروه تاریخ و فرهنگ پژوهشکده کردستان شناسی و دانشیار گروه شهرسازی دانشگاه کردستان است که با بیش از 15 سال سوابق آموزشی و پژوهشی در مطالعات شهری، به ویژه فضاهای عمومی با تاکید بر نقش زنان، دستاورد اصلی علمی خود را در توسعه مفهوم شهر کُردنشین و تعاملات فضایی و توانمندسازی زنان در فضاهای شهری رقم زده است. ایشان هم اکنون در چارچوب فرصت مطالعاتی در موسسه مطالعاتی شهر و منطقه آکادمی علوم اتریش مشعول می باشد.
Endorsements
- Stephen Kite, Emeritus Professor, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
This pioneering and penetrating study reveals the socio-spatial characteristics of a remarkable traditional Iranian Kurdish city – castellated and part-planned – within its Zagros mountains setting, illuminating aspects of urbanism that deserve to be as well understood as those of the Iranian plateau. Alizadeh’s probing readings identify many distinctive aspects of Kurdish settlement, such as the extrovert connection of the dwelling to the mountain landscape, and the fluent interplay, in the life of women, between private and public realms.
- Nader Ardalan, Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
"An astonishingly authentic and intimate, holistic case study of the environmental, social, political and urban development and transformations of the pre-20th century city of Sanandaj, Iran – the legendary Safavid capital of the Ardalan Walis of Kurdistan by a distinguished scholar, planner and citizen of this city. It presents most lucidly the theoretical frameworks of the morphology of architectural and planning concepts underlying this mountainous city."
- Ali Madanipour, Professor, Newcastle University, UK
“Based on longstanding academic research and personal experience, this book introduces a significant city with a distinctive character and history at the heart of Iran’s Kurdish region. It is a welcome addition to the studies of Kurdish culture and Iranian urbanism, especially from the perspective of urban form and the organization of public and private spaces in the city.