Essay On Medieval City

3. FEATURES OF THE MEDIEVAL CITY
Medieval city has its own socio-economic structure which was strengthened with the development of commercial life and enabled by traders called bourgeois. At this point, especially in the Western cities, bourgeois became dominant figure in the administrative field while they were organizing the economy in terms of its own profits (Bakır ve Ülgen, 2009: 132). The urban bourgeoisie began to establish a new political and administrative order that would be the basis of consumption society and based on competition by breaking down socio-economic, political and administrative structures and institutions of the traditional agricultural society. The trade was the form of the city’s lifeblood and naturally as a result of that it was supposed to protect the merchants and their property. With this purpose, the castle walls surrounding the city were built which was one of most important aspects of the medieval cities even the walls precisely separated the urban and rural areas from each other (Bakır ve Ülgen: 2009: 132-136).
Another feature of the Medieval city was their location on the trade routes. Considering that the trade was the most significant factor in the revival of the medieval cities; the cities were emerged as natural trade routes, the rivers and the harbour cities (Bakır ve Ülgen, 2009: 133). The other feature of the Medieval city was that they were

Residential and commercial areas were separated by dead-end roads, streets, roads, arches and doors. Thus, within the framework of the concept of family privacy, the tripartite structure emerged on the establishment of the Islamic city which consisted of public, semi-public and private spaces (Goş, 2005: 335). On the semi-public area of trade zone, religious identity did not interfere to daily life, Muslims and non-Muslims were mixed together (İnalcık, 2005: