This paper investigates the local building tradition in Macedonia. The domain of the research occurs to be the 19th Century houses build in different cities within the state. The research shows that these houses build by ...

The development of mixed-use precincts is an age old idea in the context of Europe and America, but a reasonably new notion in the developing country of South Africa. In this country with a history of both segregated as ...

The aim of this paper is to set light to relationship between the city and traditional house via the concept of ‘change’. In this direction, the main issue of this paper to discuss the reflections of change which lived ...

In this article, the commercial use of sports venues is examined as a means to explore the commercialization and privatization of urban spaces through marketing and sponsorship at public events. It reveals how Berlin was ...

Urbanization generally influences the microclimate by changes introduced in land cover, the compact spatial structure of the metropolitan areas, the emission of pollutants, the modification of the physical properties of ...

With the proliferation of the use of information technologies in design activity, digital tools and techniques become determinant factors. The digital design processes and approaches that are always considered as complex ...

Composition and spatial organization of the dwelling can vary due to the multiple factors, such as economical, climatic and cultural, but the functional organization of dwelling is defined by basic human activities. Universal ...

Urban design has been described as being 'about the making of better places for people'; therefore the growing trend of natural and human-induced disasters should be areas of key concern to urban designers and other built ...