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This article aims at following the traces of the transformation of public sphere in Turkey through its manifestations on urban public spaces with the case study of Taksim Square In this attempt the article illustrates how Taksim square as a public space has been shaped by struggles between different ideologies discourses political decisions and daily activities taking place at personal interpersonal local national supranational and global scales Through this way this article also aims at understanding how these contestations at different scales are affecting people individually and collecti
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The construction sector of the Kurdistan region of the Republic of Iraq has witnessed a huge development in the construction sector last ten years However there is a lack of awareness and legislation regarding sustainable construction in the buildings sector The aim of the paper is to find the required mechanism to introduce sustainable practice and implement sustainable construction in the buildings construction sector in Northern Iraq The main objectives of this study are identifying the barriers in sustainable construction in Northern Iraq and investigate the law and regulations in deali
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The starting point of this study is the fact that every production system entails a specific spatial organization and changes its physical environment This research is an attempt to understand the industrialization period of Turkeys Early Republican Period 1930s and the spatial effects of the new production system Right after the Turkish War of Independence The Republican Government of Turkey had aimed to establish an independent country and started to carry out a modernization and contemporization project This project had different dimensions appealing to the institutional economical socia
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Image of the ancient cities across the Arab region has been changed The urbanization progress and their subsequent urban changes are of rapid acceleration due to the population increase in the named cities affecting the encompassed old districts in many respects The mentioned changes are forked into two main branches controlled and uncontrolled On one side the controlled category abide by the urban regulations in terms of the visual representation of the old districts On the other side the uncontrolled counterpart breaches these regulations and their logical assumptions ending up in many ur
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For a long time Social life in Bahrain was unique and positive Public Participation and social cooperative with no reference of segregation or discrimination for a long time Regularly residences were gathering together to discuss the daily life solving problems discussing their economic and social issues with a spirit of respecting human rights and civilization In Bahrain there were many elements which were positively in city quality of life The research problem is that unfortunately most of the old part of Manama city Capital of Bahrain area suffer from losing the identity by modernization
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It is necessary for urban regeneration projects to be carried out successfully in coordination with other actors During the process of realising regeneration many actors and strategicallygiven decision play a crucial role The ways how actorsfactors are involved in the process the relationships founded among them and investigating the methods followed during the process constitute the content of this study The purpose of this study is to develop an approach with regard to the coordination established between actorsfactors that participated during the regeneration process This study covers th
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Northern Iraq as part of Iraq has been witnessed a great population increment last few decades However housing stress in Northern Iraq has risen due to that Environmental economic and social sustainability became crucial in the movement towards a more effective built environment and community nowadays This research seeks to evaluate the presence of sustainability aspects environmental economic and social in the housing sector which makes them acquired and affordable for lowincome earners in Northern Iraq Housing projects as case studies were investigated in Erbil the capital of Northern Ira
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New revitalization and regeneration strategies are currently taking place as a scheme for reassessing urban spaces This paper as a result navigates the theory of Urban Acupuncture UA as a quick and effective tool that can be adopted in large cities Using Riyadh city as a case study it discusses how this tool can be used to achieve maximum results with minimal effort in the most critical places Riyadh city is the capital of Saudi Arabia and is considered one of the fastestgrowing metropolitan cities in the Arab world Through time it has transformed into a city with leftover open spaces and a
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The present study aims to use systematic conservation planning to analyse and review the national protected areas (PAs) network in Jordan. The analysis included the application of three modules: the environmental risk surface (ERS), the relative biodiversity index (RBI), and the application of Marxan. The methodology was based on using Marxan to achieve solutions for three scenarios for the PAs network. Marxan was applied to the input data, which included vegetation types, distribution of threatened mammals and plants, locations of currently established PAs and other types of designations.
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Wind-farm planning optimization is important for decision-making concerning regional energy planning in developing countries. This process is governed by restrictions on site selection based on land suitability metric variables, wind turbine technology variables, and land-use governing criteria. This study aims to create a framework for land appropriation strategies for locating optimum sites suitable for wind farms.
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