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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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Courtyard as a Spatial Negotiator: Socio-Spatial Transformation of Domestic Life in Traditional and Contemporary Indian Houses

Proceedings 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, Farheen Bano, Pragati Verma   +2 more
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The Cost of Convenience: A Hedonic Approach to Travel Time Valuation and Cost‐Benefit Analysis

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel revealed‐preference approach to estimating the value of travel time (VTT) and calculating consumer surplus for the economic evaluation of transport infrastructure. Departing from traditional stated‐preference models, we derive time valuations by linking residential rental transactions in Greater Sydney to employment
Isaac Mann, David M. Levinson
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A Typology of Sistan\'s Vernacular Housing in Terms of Open and Closed Space Formation [PDF]

مسکن و محیط روستا, 2020
Housing types depend on the relationship between human needs and the environment. They are variable and complex due to humans’ different lifestyles and environmental conditions.
Zohreh Oveisi Keikha, Hosseinali Kavosh, Abolfazl Heidari, Jamshid Davtalab   +3 more
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Designing for the Unfinished: PREVI Lima and the Architecture of Incremental Growth

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
Incremental housing reconceptualizes the dwelling as open-ended process rather than a finished object. This paper theorizes the seed dwelling as spatial and structural framework that embeds the capacity for growth within its original form ...
María González-Aranguren
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Evaluation of Quality of Daylight in a Contemporary Residential Building with a Central Courtyard in Kerman, Iran [PDF]

Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment
The research aims to develop sustainable daylighting strategies for contemporary buildings by drawing inspiration from traditional vernacular housing solutions.
M. Movehhedi Nia, M. Nikpour, E. Jahanshahi Javaran   +2 more
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The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Morphological Discontinuity Under Climate Reclassification: A Compatibility-Based Adaptation Framework for Vernacular Courtyard Houses

Buildings
High-resolution Köppen–Geiger projections indicate that several cold desert (BWk) regions are likely to transition toward hot desert (BWh) regimes during the twenty-first century, challenging the environmental logic of vernacular architecture.
Dilek Yasar, Gavkhar Uzakova, Pınar Öktem Erkartal   +2 more
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