The boundaries between nomadic and sedentary society have always been poorly defined within the Mongolian landscape, and their relations have always been characterised by a dual aspect: a deep hostility for their reciprocal lifestyles and, at the same time, a strong interest for their mutual economic systems, considering indeed the production complementarity. Omitting the large settlements dating back to the proto-Mongol and Mongol period – of which the traces are currently subject of archaeologists – attention has now turned to the morphological characters of proto-urban settlements established in Mongolia since the early 20th century. Despite these settlements have always attracted little interest by the scientific community perhaps because are based on settlement experiences so-called informal/spontaneous are currently at the centre of attention as involved in urban regeneration programs mainly aimed at retaining the residents, discouraging the exodus towards the metropolis of Ulaanbaatar. Based on this consideration, the paper attempts to develop a ‘design reading’ of some of these settlements by investigating their typo-morphological aspects, with the aim to inform new sustainable planning strategies, to the scale of landscape and thus of the urban settlement.
Proto-urbanized Mongolian landscape / Scardigno, Nicola. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 777-785. (Intervento presentato al convegno Reading Built Spaces. Cities in the Making and Future Urban Form. 4th ISUFitaly International Conference. Bari 26-28 september 2018 tenutosi a Bari, Italy nel September 26-28, 2018).
Proto-urbanized Mongolian landscape
Nicola Scardigno
2019-01-01
Abstract
The boundaries between nomadic and sedentary society have always been poorly defined within the Mongolian landscape, and their relations have always been characterised by a dual aspect: a deep hostility for their reciprocal lifestyles and, at the same time, a strong interest for their mutual economic systems, considering indeed the production complementarity. Omitting the large settlements dating back to the proto-Mongol and Mongol period – of which the traces are currently subject of archaeologists – attention has now turned to the morphological characters of proto-urban settlements established in Mongolia since the early 20th century. Despite these settlements have always attracted little interest by the scientific community perhaps because are based on settlement experiences so-called informal/spontaneous are currently at the centre of attention as involved in urban regeneration programs mainly aimed at retaining the residents, discouraging the exodus towards the metropolis of Ulaanbaatar. Based on this consideration, the paper attempts to develop a ‘design reading’ of some of these settlements by investigating their typo-morphological aspects, with the aim to inform new sustainable planning strategies, to the scale of landscape and thus of the urban settlement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
