City branding is a world wide increasing phenomenon. Cities are working hard to keep up with this trend and try setting themselves into the right scene with attractive and appealing images. Competition today is far more ...

Culture is increasingly becoming recognized as an enabler and driver of sustainable urban development. Though ample research exists on ways in which cultural factors are incorporated into strategic urban planning for ...

As culture, behaviours, desires and preferences of people change, so do their relationship with water. Consequently, bathroom designs, which have been earlier based, simply on concepts of hygiene and comfort are now changing ...

Despite the diversity of methodologies and approaches in architectural design process, there are a shared agreement on the inevitable existence of the stages "analysis" and "synthesis" as norms sequences during the ...

Street furniture is important in urban texture in different ways. Street furniture and citizens/urban users have too critical relationship; we sit, eat, wait, collect our garbage, etc. But these are not the only functions ...

Despite of many investigations about environmental and economical sustainability, the social sustainability is largely neglected in different studies. In addition, the Walled City which is located in Famagusta, North-Cyprus ...

Generally, the architecture of iconic buildings because of their unique characteristics has attracted much attention. Specially with the start of modernist era, design of individual iconic buildings gained more importance ...

Regarding sustainable development and energy consciousness in architectural area, a primary concern of this research is to achieve a thermal comfort environment in atria which lie in a transition between composite and ...

The climate change and the subject of energy efficiency to overcome the man-made harms to our environment are of very important issues today. The building sector and especially the accommodation sector by using energy ...

Walkability is one of the techniques to design more sustainable and livable cities. In recent decades, cities have become increasingly humane in nature, where the role of the citizens and their importance in the city ...