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Editorial: An Expedition into Architecture and Urbanism of the Global South
Ashraf M. Salama, David GriersonThe nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia are collectively known as the Global South, which includes practically 157 of a total of 184 recognized states…
Towards Socially Integrated Housing in Chile: Assessing Conviviality Through Two Key Housing Projects
Beatriz C. Maturana, Ralph HorneSocial integration is an important goal of contemporary urban policy in Chile. Using the concept of conviviality understood as the “art of living in community” (Esteva, 2012)…
From Compound Houses to Villas: The Incremental Transformation of Dakar’s Urban Landscape
Emilie PinardThis paper examines the transformation of the housing typology in informal neighbourhoods located on the periphery of Dakar, Senegal. More specifically, it documents the spatial…
Measuring Liveability by Exploring Urban Qualities of Kissy Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Fodei M. Conteh, Derya OktayWith increasing urbanisation in developing countries and the concomitant overcrowding on streets, serious questions remain about the liveability of inner-city…
Wounded Spaces: When Planning Degraded Cairo’s Urban Memory
Gehan SelimThis paper examines the position of planning practices operated under precise guidelines for displaying modernity. Cultivating the spatial qualities of Cairo since the 1970s has…
The Abject Dream of Neo-Capital: Capitalist Urbanism, Architecture and Endangered Live-Ability of the Middle East’s Modern Cities
M. Gamal AbdelmonemThis paper interrogates the notion of “New Capital” in the context of the hegemony of neoliberal urbanism in the Arabcities in the Middle East from historical, socioeconomic, and…
Measuring the Potential for Ecological Citizenship Among Residents in Famagusta, North Cyprus
Buket Asilsoy, Derya OktayThe significance of ecological citizenship for the sustainable urbanism discourse has been highly recognised in recent years. Targeting to adopt ecological citizenship as a…
The Role of Mega Projects in Redefining Housing Development in Gulf Cities
Florian Wiedmann, Ashraf M. Salama, Hatem G. IbrahimSince the end of the 1990s, large-scale mega projects have been initiated in Gulf cities to enable an unprecedented urban growth and the expansion of new economic sectors. In this…
A Contextual Framework for the Development of a Building Sustainability Assessment Method for Iran
Shahrzad Malek, David GriersonAs one of the fastest growing countries in the Middle East, and the one most vulnerable to climate change, the main challenge now facing Iran today is how to house its growing…
Transforming Lifestyles and Evolving Housing Patterns: A Comparative Case Study
Smita Khan, Archana BeleThe wisdom of developmental activities that propose voluminous increase in the built infrastructure is questionable. These can seriously undermine the ability of quintessential…
Unsettling Modernity: Shifting Values and Changing Housing Styles in the Kathmandu Valley
Vibha Bhattarai-Upadhyay, Urmi SenguptaCulture has always been important for the character of the cities, as have the civic and public institutions that sustain a lifestyle and provide an identity. Substantial evidence…
Affective Perception of Place: Attachment to Kuala Lumpur Historical Urban Places
Norsidah UjangAsian cities have witnessed changes in the urban landscape and social behaviour in the past decades. As a result of a continuous transformation of urban centres, the sense of…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr. Chaham Alalouch
- Prof. Yonca Hurol