Islamic Urbanism and The Sacred City

In this Podcast Session, Soraya Hosni, Chairwoman of INTBAU Tunisia, founder of The New Medina, and Yale World Fellow, shares her 7 Principles of Islamic Urbanism, a framework for building sacred, cohesive, and sustainable cities. Her central argument: cosmology drives design. Working from a model of the Medina of Sousse, she traces how each principle manifests spatially, in the morphology of streets, courtyards, and thresholds, and makes the case for these heritage-rooted principles as a living methodology for contemporary urban practice.