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History of Italian Immigrants Experience with Housing in Post WWII Australia
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2015 , Article)Previous studies on Italian migrants in Australia highlight that Italian migrants migrated to Australia in the 1950s’-1960s with the primary goal of permanently settling in Australia. Also, scholars pointed out that the ... -
Neighborhoods and Social Interactions: The Case of Al-Najada Area in Doha
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2015 , Article)Cities provide places for people to live, work, learn and socialize. As urban environments, cities nowadays are typically characterized by urban sprawl in which open public spaces (1) are neglected and/or (2) social ... -
Enhancing staff's satisfaction with comfort toward productivity by sustainable Open Plan Office Design
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Several sustainable building assessment tools have been developed globally to manage sustainability in building's indoor environment. The sustainable building assessment tools (SBATs) measure the user's satisfaction and ... -
Pragmatic probe: Preference and satisfaction with built environment
( Penerbit UTM Press , 2015 , Article)Enhancing the quality of urban life is considered by social scientists. It has instigated a growing attention in findings from surveys aiming to measure the inhabitant image in particular places. This paper investigates ... -
Semiotic Aspects of Museum Landscape: Contextual Integration and Symbolic Application
( Common Ground Research Networks , 2015 , Article)This research aims to study the development of the landscape of contemporary museums, their conceptual classification, and their contextual implementation from the mid-20th century up to the present. It will highlight cases ... -
Semiotic aspects of museum landscape: Contextual integration and symbolic application
( Common Ground Research Networks , 2015 , Article)This research aims to study the development of the landscape of contemporary museums, their conceptual classification, and their contextual implementation from the mid-20th century up to the present. It will highlight cases ... -
Integrated Approach for the Improvement of Human Comfort in the Public Realm: The Case of the Corniche, the Linear Urban Link of Doha
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2015 , Article)The Corniche is a public realm located in Doha. Its waterfront palm-fringed boulevard and twin carriageway extends in a horseshoe shape and runs 7 km along the Doha Bay and the city's sea-front. Doha Corniche is indisputably ... -
The Development of Vital Precincts in Doha: Urban Regeneration and Socio-Cultural Factors
( Scientific Research Publishing , 2015 , Article)Through the past few decades, Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has experienced an extraordinary economic growth and transformation of its built environment. This has been caused by post-WWII oil and natural gas ... -
Dubai: An Urbanism Shaped for Global Tourism
( OMICS International , 2015 , Article)The urban transformation experience of Dubai presents an interesting model of dealing with globalization and benefiting from its flows of people, capital, and transformation. Although that city does not have rich urban ... -
The Spatial Form of Houses Built by Italian Migrants in Post WWII Brisbane, Australia
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2015 , Article)The literature reveals that despite the study of the relationship between human behavior, activities and built form has focused on physical spatial environments at any scale, ranging from built environment to built form, ... -
Italo-Australian Transnational Houses: Culture and Built Heritage as a Tool for Cultural Continuity
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2015 , Article)(The Problem) The classical theorist Vitruvius celebrates architecture as an expression of societies’ cultural factors where culture has a determinant role in shaping built forms. Despite this notion of architecture has ... -
The Souq Waqif Heritage Site in Doha: Spatial Form and Livability
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2015 , Article)The aim of this paper is to examine how and the extent to which the urban form of the heritage site of the Souq Waqif in Doha (1) encourages the formation of enhanced levels of social and community engagement (i.e., social ... -
Cultural traditions and architectural form of Italian transnational houses in Australia
( ArchNet , 2015 , Article)The purpose of this article is to investigate the connection between cultural traditions and house form which, according to scholars, is in danger of being lost, and so contribute to the revival of critical interest in ... -
Edge, center, and spine: Exploring the multi-dimensionality of contemporary landscapes in Middle Eastern cities
( Archnet-IJAR , 2015 , Article)This paper offers an overview of landscape interventions in three Middle Eastern cities and a positional interpretation of the way in which different landscape typologies can contribute to their socio-spatial and environmental ... -
TWO-GRAPH BUILDING INTERIOR REPRESENTATION for EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPLICATIONS
( Copernicus GmbH , 2016 , Conference Paper)Nowadays, in a rapidly developing urban environment with bigger and higher public buildings, disasters causing emergency situations and casualties are unavoidable. Preparedness and quick response are crucial issues saving ... -
Italo-australian transnational houses: Built forms enhancing social capital
( ArchNet , 2016 , Article)The literature reveals that culture, as a way of life, is a factor determining the house's spatial form, which, in turn, can contribute to the construction and/or enhancement of social capital. Scholars also stress that ... -
Post-WWII Italian Migration from Veneto (Italy) to Australia and Transnational Houses in Queensland
( Scientific & Academic Publishing , 2016 , Article)This paper explores the phenomenon of post WWII Italian migration (from the Veneto region) to the State of Queensland in Australia. The exploration is linked with the topic of the accommodations where respondents resided ... -
Urban morphology and microclimate response - Overview and case study
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)The aim of this study is to investigate the urban morphological factors that influence urban microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort in hot semi-arid climate. It explores the main features that influence the urban climate ... -
Identifying Optimal Design of Office Buildings Using Harmony Search Optimization Algorithm
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Energy is an expensive and scare resource and the world faces an energy crisis given our dependence on the limited supply of fossil fuels. Similar to other countries, in Qatar, energy consumption and the subsequent production ... -
Livability of High-Rise Districts - Case Study of West Bay in Doha
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Doha, the capital of the state of Qatar, is a small Gulf city that grew as a port settlement on pearling and fishing activities. Since the mid-seventies, Doha has begun the process of accelerated growth based on the rising ...