Guitart, Miguel
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City, Territory and Architecture
In the context of post-industrial Rust Belt cities, much needed investment seldom makes room for proper debate on the material memory and place identity embodied in the rich industrial legacy. However, a reflection on the intrinsic value of the vacant industrial structures of these cities leads to the unveiling of their most authentic identity. Thi...
Abeer Elshater Abusaada, Hisham
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City, Territory and Architecture
Hyper-diversity in old communities should be rehabilitated to address various man-made changes that threaten sustainability and viability at night. This study elucidates this argument by reviewing and synthesising theoretical and empirical evidence about urban governance support regarding the participation of neighbourhood residents to improve or e...
Tagliagambe, Silvano
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City, Territory and Architecture
the complex dynamics engendered by distributive asymmetry, climate change, and the effects of mass movement of people and cultures, in the context of transformations informed by processes of shifting and permanency, pose a question of a political and social but also cultural and epistemological nature. The promotion of learning processes focusing o...
Rashid, Mamun Ara, Dilshad Rahat Abdalla, Salem Buhashima
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City, Territory and Architecture
UAE urban housing and planning history discourses commonly assume a sharp division between the pre-oil (before the 1950s) and the post-oil (since the 1960s) eras. It is a misleading assumption that flattens historical legacies and exempts pre-oil tribal and maritime built landscape from having a bearing on the emergence of more recent ‘iconic’ vill...
Aburamadan, Rania
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City, Territory and Architecture
The increase in refugee numbers is an increasingly important concern globally. Many countries in different regions have been accommodating refugees by providing temporary shelters made from ineffective and inadequate materials to provide thermal comfort for refugees. However, the shelters provided are often inadequate solutions for shelter and negl...
Ordóñez, María Fernanda Shannon, Kelly d’Auria, Viviana
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City, Territory and Architecture
In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare nature as a subject of rights based on the ‘Buen Vivir’ (Good Living) philosophy which is premised on an indigenous principle that envisions a world where humans are part-and-parcel of a larger natural and social environment. Although Ecuador’s constitution is groundbreaking from a l...
Bianchetti, Cristina Vassallo, Ianira
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City, Territory and Architecture
IntroductionThe multiple forms of living in the contemporary city clearly demonstrate how the relationship between living space and rights reveals itself in many ways, even to the point of being divergent and contradictory.Case descriptionIn order to analyze this point, we decided to observe two case studies that are emblematic for the divergence o...
Vokshi, Armand Shehu, Elfrida Dervishi, Sokol
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City, Territory and Architecture
Heritage conservation provides economic, cultural and social benefits to urban communities. The building conservation role has changed from preservation to being part of a broader strategy for urban regeneration process and sustainable development. Heritage buildings are vital in for transferring the cultural identity for upcoming generations. Wher...
Lianto, Fermanto Husin, Denny Thedyardi, Clinton Choandi, Mieke Trisno, Rudy
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City, Territory and Architecture
The awareness of the negative effect of the intensive usage of synthetic material has led to a significant phenomenon in recent global development. Moving forward to become a fully ready developed country, Indonesia shall move toward a more sustainable architecture for presenting a greener environment. Despite blessed with a distinctive collection ...
Galal Ahmed, Khaled Alipour, S. M. Hossein
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City, Territory and Architecture
With the aim to enhance sustainability in general including walkability, the recent urban forms of the designs of the Emirati neighborhoods have been denser and more compact, if compared with the older design models. While there are various guidelines and regulations related to the microscale walkability measures for the urban design of neighborhoo...
