The Tale of Two 1001-Night Cities An Actor-Network View on the Role of Social Structures and the Motives and Intentions of Agents in Spatial Development of the Medieval Bagdad and Isfahan

This contribution analyses the urban identity and historical patterns of spatial development in ancient Baghdad Isfahan, according to Actor Network Theory (ANT) Actor-Relational Approach (ARA). In case two different hubs (Baghdad Isfahan).This article demonstrates how course history, those interactions between various path-dependent networks have produced various, but specific types urbanity this region. It aims show ANT could clarify embeddedness dynamic actor-networks within Middle Eastern spaces. argues that institutional settings, customs, use might even be more crucial for issue local identity, precisely because effect they influence shape living, institutions, form infrastructures through time.