Cities, as a source of and a solution to modern challenges (such as financial crisis or health related crisis), are complex systems that give urban policies broad spatial significance. Creating and implementing urban ...

Industrial heritage can be considered as a significant asset of modern civilization, mostly epitomizing living patrimony of industrialization process. However, it nowadays represents under-valuated heritage, as a consequence ...

During last two decades all Spanish Mediterranean cities have increased their surface and, in consequence, their urban public space is nowadays greater than it was before. Not only the amount of public space has increased, ...

Tirana is a city which keeps growing mostly in a natural way. The unexpected growing rhythm that followed the political changes of the early ‘90es has not yet produced enough administrative and planning awareness and ...

The need for structural rehabilitation of concrete structures all over the world is a wellknown problem and a great amount of research is going on in this field. There can be manyreasons for strengthening such as increased ...

Construction industry is a complex, dynamic and risky industry that often suffers from poor performance leading in increased cost and time, and in decreased quality. In these conditions the dynamic identification and ...

This research emphasizes the presence of daylight in architecture as an essential element of experiencing it. Spatial experience and its perception can be reached by the existence of light and its distribution. We treated ...

Insurance appeared so as to defend individuals against the losses and the costs that will occur depending on the various conditions along with the necessity of taking precautions beforehand throughout the people’s life. ...