The article elaborates the issue of urban identity as an important factor for raising urban attractiveness and spurring urban development in general. The elements of urban identity, such as the nature, culture and economy, ...

Urban streets and squares have a dual function: as links in transport networks and as places for accommodating urban life. In this paper an integrated approach of urban design of the public domain is developed, highlighting ...

This presentation focuses on the problems and issues that have emerged in Tirana during the transformation to a market economy in the post-communist period (1990-present). It addresses physical, economic, social, and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Metropolitan areas worldwide display highly diverse microclimatic conditions that are believed to be influenced by a variety of parameters: morphologies, structures, materials (particularly urban surface properties), and ...

In a century immersed in technological acceleration, documentation of heritage buildings is the preliminary action to solve any built heritage problem. The documentation procedure requires a wide range of quantitative and ...

Bazaar is the most liveable part of any city in middle east. Mostly covered (less uncovered streets or Rastehes) public space which was the most interactive part of the city specially in the past. Bazaar not only is ...

Kosovo is situated in the Alpine-Mediterranean seismic belt comprising the zone of contact between the lithosphere plates of Africa and Eurasia, which extends from the Islands of the Azores to the eastern border of the ...