Apart from the traditional Kurdish gender regime, which originates from the Kurdish tribal
structure and which to some extent restricts the visibility of women in society, the status of …

Public spaces are central to social interactions and cohesion, overall urban life, and
therewith sustainable urban development. They can play key roles in increasing social …

Feminist street art aims to transform patriarchal spaces into places of gendered resistance
by asserting a feminist presence in the city. Considering this, as well as women's social life …

The hold of place as an epistemological and ontological force, as a common-sense way of
understanding our location in the world, persists, enabling us to make sense of the …

The present article is devoted to the study of ethnic representation in the works of Kurdish
painters. Specific features of the Kurdish ethnic worldview and its relation to the …

The present paper brings forth visual perception privacy issue in mass housing in Algiers.
Considering a correlation between obstruction rates and visual perception privacy, the case …

The Routledge Handbook of Place; First Edition Page 1 The Routledge Handbook of Place The
handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from …

The power to define and designate space has long been seen as the fundamental bedrock
of sovereign governance. Do, then, new 'locally'generated city master plans orientated …

Since the late nineteenth century, Iranian domestic culture has been confronted with several
imported image guides that projected new lifestyles, being instrumental in the gradual …

This paper, reconstructs the earliest urban environments in which Muslims lived with a
particular focus on the central (jami) mosque. The term Jami, according to Mohmmed Makki …