Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads: A Contemporary Reading of Urban Transformation of Historic Citi

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I:Urban Heritage and Cultural Identity

Chapter 2: Public Open Spaces in Bahrain: Connecting Migrants and Urban Heritage in a Transcultural City, Wafa Al-Madani and Clare Rishbeth
Chapter 3: Paradise Extended; Re-examining the cultural anchors of the historic pleasure avenues, Niloofar Razavi 
Chapter 4: Landscape Architecture significance in restoration historical areas, old "Muharak" city, Bahrain, Islam El-Ghonaimy and Mohamed El-Ghonaimy 
Part II:Governing Urban Heritage
Chapter 5: The rise of the facilitation approach in tackling neighbourhood decline in Tehran, Kaveh Hajialiakbari 
Chapter 6: Rebuilding Tajee, Strategies to reverse the deterioration of cultural heritage and loss of identity of the historic quarters of Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq, Anna Soave and Bozhan Hawizy 
Chapter 7: Silk production as imported industrial heritage that came from Silk roads to Europe, Serbian example, Milica Kocovic 
Part III: Post-war Reconstruction and Urban Heritage
Chapter 8: Craftsmanship for reconstruction: artisans shaping Syrian cities, Mohammad Wesam Al Asali 
Chapter 9: Place-identity in historic cities; Case of post-war urban reconstruction in Erbil, Iraq, Avar Almukhtar 
Chapter 10: Restoration of traditional houses post-war on Gaza, Suheir Ammar and Nashwa Alramlawi 
Part IV: Zooming in: Urban Heritage in Iran
Chapter 11: Traditional house typologies revived. A case study in Sabzevar, Iran, Karin Raith and Hassan Estaji 
Chapter 12: Can modern heritage construct a sensible cultural identity? Iranian oil industries and the practice of place making, Iradj Moeini and Mojtaba Badiee 
Chapter 13: Evaluation of the Prospective Role of Affordable Housing in Regeneration of Historical Districts of Iranian Cities to Alleviate Socio-Spatial Segregation, Alireza Vaziri Zadeh 
Chapter 14: Integrative conservation of Tehran's oldest qanat by employing historic urban landscape approach, Narjes Zivdar and Ameneh Karimian 
Chapter 15: Silk Road Cities as Smart Cities, Mona Jabbari, University of Minho, Portugal
Chapter 16: Challenges of Participatory Urban Design: suggestions for socially rooted problems in the case study of Sang-e-Siah, Shiraz, Iran, Jahanshah Pakzad,Souri Elham and Hooman Foroughmand Araabi