VALLEY-CITY RESEARCH A RETRO-PROSPECTIVE PROPOSAL FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. AN APPLIED MODEL TO VALENCIA CASE STUDY
The purpose of this study is to clarify how the irrigation canals, which were built during Islamic golden age (IX-XIII) in the Mediterranean Arch, and their relation with pre-anthropic geographies, have influenced the urban morphogenesis and how this hydraulic system works today, which is the persistence and what can we learn from traditional systems for the contemporary cities. The target period is modernization when the cities expanded, the transition from organic based-societies to industrial hydrocarbon-based societies. The target cities are 2 cities in Europe: Valencia - Granada SPAIN / and 3 cities in Maghreb, northern Africa and the Middle East, of them emplaced in the Mediterranean Arch: Adana-Antalya TURKEY / Zagazig - EGYPT / Fez - Meknes - Marrakech - Rabat - MAROC / Oran - Argel - ALGERIA (cities under a selection process).