WISH - Workshop on international social housing. Online lecture by Rocco Rante
Academy of Architecture
Date: 26 April 2023 / 17:00
WISH - Workshop on international social housing
Prof. Martino Pedrozzi
WISH 2023 - Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Online lecture #1
Rocco Rante
The Oasis of Bukhara: history of water and people
26.04.2023 h17:10
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Since antiquity, the last part of the Zerafshan River has flown along a north-east/south-west main channel, and a dense network of irrigation is connected to it. The last part of the river’s path, today an endorheic delta, corresponds to the Bukhara Oasis, covers approximately 5,100 km2.
The geographical setting linked the region with the core Iranian lands to the south, with Khorezm and the nomadic regions to the north, and with China and the Far East. Throughout millennia the Zarafshan delta saw different kinds of human occupation, which always depended on water resources. According to the geomorphological and archaeological results, human occupations followed the landscape transformation, adapting behaviours to a perennially moving situation. Population distribution, once arranged within the territory, developed in this framework, thus assuring the immovability of the settlement organisation, which only changed because of depopulation, towards the end of the medieval period. This lecture will highlight the relationships between people and water, in urban and rural lands, from the 3rd c. BCE, until the modern era.
