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Islamic Ideology and the Evolution of Courtyard: A Case Study of a Havili, Old City Lahore

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2019
A courtyard in buildings plays an important role in determining climatic setting, as well as physical and 1 psychological environment for the residents. This paper focuses on the evolution of courtyard houses in light of the teachings of Islam.
Ayesha Mehmood Malik, Mamoona Rashid
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Cooling Load Reduction in Courtyard Houses: Examining the Role of Courtyard Configuration in a Hot, Arid Climate [PDF]

JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences
The hot, arid climate of the Qassim region in Saudi Arabia poses significant challenges for energy-efficient building design, especially in terms of passive cooling strategies.
Essam Almahmoud, Lobna Elgheriani, Abdulbasit Almhafdy   +2 more
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Courtyard Housing: A Mid-Density Alternative House-Type

Asylum, 2022
The main objectives of housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are to increase the city’s density and to increase its total stock of affordable housing. In the current market, family housing for lower-priced mid-density intensification projects is typologically limited to two low-rise alternatives.
openaire   +2 more sources

PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Vilanova Artigas: his unbuilt courtyard-houses

Dearq, 2019
This article aims to analyze three courtyard-house projects by the architect Vilanova Artigas, taking into account six concepts: i) dwelling; ii) place; (iii) “public” domain; iv) utopia; v) manifesto; vi) socialization.
Wilson Florio, Ana Tagliari
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VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
wiley   +1 more source

The Courtyard House: Can a Sustainable Future Learn from a Context Relevant Past

Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2016
This paper looks at the courtyard house as a traditional urban dwellings of yesteryears with a view to explore its potential in informing the housing developments of the future.  In order to address the question, the paper starts with a historical ...
Hocine Bougdah
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Parametric Modelling and Traditional Architecture: Improving the thermal comfort of the traditional courtyard house in Morocco

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The traditional courtyard house of the Mediterranean Basin has been viewed as a complex regulating system that creates a microclimate which historically worked, and still works, in a passive way to provide acceptable thermal comfort in summer.
El Harrouni Khalid, Ben Aicha Mouhcine, El Harrouni Rime   +2 more
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