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Typology and Solar Gain Analysis: Vernacular Courtyard Houses of Tabriz, Iran

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2019
The study presents the results of typological analysis and simulation modeling analysis of traditional courtyard residential houses in the cold semi-arid climate of Iran.
Maryam Khatibi
doaj   +1 more source

Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Vilanova Artigas: his unbuilt courtyard-houses

open access: yesDearq, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Fragmentation Across Scales, Geography, and Climate Challenges in European Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Research: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European urban climate change research lacks integration across scales, geography, and climate challenges, despite Europe's coordinated policy frameworks. Through a hybrid bibliometric and systematic review of 1528 studies (2010–2025) using Cortext Manager and PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this study maps the conceptual patterns, knowledge gaps, and
Isabela Pichardo‐Velázquez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Courtyard as a Spatial Negotiator: Socio-Spatial Transformation of Domestic Life in Traditional and Contemporary Indian Houses

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
This paper examines how changing socio-spatial configurations influence patterns of negotiated domesticity in traditional and contemporary courtyard houses within India's composite climate.
Lalit Akash Verma   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Documentation and analysis of structural elements of traditional houses for conservation of cultural heritage in Siverek (Şanlıurfa, Turkey)

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research, 2020
This study deals with the architectural properties of traditional Siverek houses, which are important in the larger corpus of Southeastern Anatolian houses.
Neslihan Dalkılıç, Adnan Nabikoğlu
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Geometry of Yard in the Formation of the Historical Houses of Kashan [PDF]

open access: yesMathematics Interdisciplinary Research, 2019
Geometry is a base tool for establishing unity in Iranian architecture and is always considered by architects due to the discipline and rule that gives architecture to architecture.
Ahmad Danaeinia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Courtyard Housing: A Mid-Density Alternative House-Type

open access: yesAsylum, 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

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