Sustainable rural development is a challenging issue considering the pressure of change brought by the demands of globalisation and intensified tourism activities in rural vernacular settlements While studies in this field often focus on historical centres research on the distinctive urban and architectural identity of village development areas in rural vernacular settlements remains scarce To address this gap in the literature a field study was conducted in the vernacular rural settlement of Behramkale located in the Northern Aegean region of Trkiye The study explored the continuity of arc
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2023Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2018United States of America, Canada
The economy can be considered as the transversal component of human activities over territories This fact can be observed from a diachronic perspective the way how architectural typologies arose through history But the relations between Economy and Architecture are not only established by the small scales but the larger ones Cities and territories evolved from compact forms till spread ones in a parallel way to the arousal of the shopping areas Urban sprawl could never be understood without these new typologies The paper is based on the keynote speech was held in the International seminar E
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2019Nigeria
This research pursued the objectives of assessing the awareness perception and levels of adherence of road users to traffic rules and regulations The study was carried out in Minna and the major signalized roads were the target of the research The research applied the survey research methodology which involves carrying volumetric count of vehicles running the red lights on the signalized routes The research therefore found out that majority of the violators of the traffic signals were the motorcycle riders closely followed by the tricycle operators the commercial vehicle owners also form a
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2021United States of America
For decades numerous countries have been witnessing the Street Children phenomenon where millions of children worldwide are subjected to risks Despite the crucial role of intermediate nonresidential interventions using dropin centers in protecting and rehabilitating street children there is a paucity of research addressing the quality of design of these centers and how architecture might influence their operational process Those observations invite investigating dropin centers used in practice from a design perspective and question adapting architectural applications for humanitarian emerg
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2022Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, France
The empirical investigation of which risk factorpolitical or financialis the optimal driver of country risk in emerging economies in the twentyfirst century has grown into a significant and volatile issue in recent decades This paper investigates the linkages between political risk and financial risk in four Balkan economies ie Greece Albania Bulgaria and Romania from 1984 Q3 to 2018 Q4 using nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag cointegration NARDL and wavelet coherence approaches As a result findings from the links between political risk and financial risk are being used to provide sig
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2019Montenegro, Brazil, Mexico
Natural and CulturoHistorical Region of Kotor Boka Bay Montenegro is well known for its exceptional beauty evaluated by UNESCO The unique universal value has been embodied in the cultural landscape vernacular architecture harmonized with the cultivated terraced landscape on the slopes of high rocky mountains Kostanjica is an old settlement in Boka Bay former fishermen village recognized for valuable elements of the cultural landscape chestnut tree and laurel forest terraced gardens with arable land fruit gardens traditional architecture in stone clusters of houses piers and docks pedestrian
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2019China, United States of America, Russia, Mexico
Warcity relationships had long been studied by scholars regarding wars sudden impact on cities Studies typically focused on one specific events impact on urban military politics economy or society This approach however treated wars impact on cities as only temporary hindered opportunities to reveal multiple political regimes spatial competition through waroriented city planning and construction which is crucial for city development and their resultant urban form changes through time In response this study has examined city planning and construction activities during the short time gaps betw
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2022Egypt, United States of America, Norway
A revolutionary book by De Soto to formalize land tenure by changing dead capital to life capital has become the trademark in Egypt of issuing a temporary reconciliation law of 2019 and its amendment to approve a legal certificate to the violators against a certain fee The question is does this law legalize informal housing Is it enough to introduce a legal certificate to secure land tenure for the violators How would this law apply on the ground Depending on the deductive methodology this paper traces sociotechnical transitions concerning legalizing the status quo of buildingland tenure se
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2023Algeria, United States of America, Norway
In contemporary times the worldwide trend of urban expansion has become an inexorable force This article engages in a comprehensive examination of the intricate dynamics surrounding urban sprawl and land utilization within the periurban regions of significant Algerian municipalities with a specific focus on the city of Oran Employing a methodology rooted in social geography this study deploys a trio of investigative approaches documentary analysis spatiotemporal scrutiny of periurban domains and insitu field investigations to shed light on the intricate intricacies of land ownership dynamic
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2019Egypt, United States of America, Norway
The paper seeks to assess the impact of access to the land of Egypt on urban development in an attempt to identify policies and laws that can be categorized as a catalyst in urban conflict A systematicreview of Data on land tenure environment of Egypt land access land governance and tenure security the actors involved in these processes their roles the land tenure related challenges they face and measures that can be taken to address these challenges was collected at country level In the context of Egypt Access to land is deemed with obstacles confronting beneficiaries and legal procedures
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