The ancient Near Eastern culture known as the Syro-Hittites flourished in what is today northern Syria and southeastern Turkey during the late second and early first millennia BCE. A collection of a dozen or so Syro-Hittite city-states were prominent features of the region's pol…
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Through an ethnographic analysis of housing in the Arabian Gulf State of Qatar, this study explores the production and reproduction of social diversity through the articulation of social and spatial process. Since the discovery and commercial exploitation of Qatar's oil and natu…
Given the qualitative, exploratory and comparative nature of the investigation, this study has employed a mixed-methods approach. According to the conceptual framework of this research, the emphasis of the study is on mechanisms and interrelationships that affect the process and…
The following thesis explores construction policy discourses within the context of the United Kingdom (UK). The research was deemed both important and necessary as the construction sector represents a major portion of the UK economy, accounting for approximately seven per cent o…
The studies conducted so far shows that the Ubaid material culture spread to each comer of Mesopotamia and beyond by the second half of the fifth millennium BC. More importantly, the societies of these times were in the process of progressive social, economic, and political chan…
The well-preserved remains of settlements in the rural countryside of southeastern Isauria provide evidence for the prosperity and intensive exploitation of marginal lands during late antiquity. The territory studied in this thesis lies in the hinterland of Seleucia ad Calycadnu…
Every year, coastal disasters such as hurricanes and floods claim hundreds of lives and severely damage homes, businesses, and lifeline infrastructure. This research was motivated by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, which devastated the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast. …
Obesity and physical inactivity have been major risk factors associated with morbidity and mortality in the United States. Recently, obesity and physical inactivity have been on the rise. Determining connections between this trend and the environment could lead to a built enviro…
Everyday Life: Spatial Oppression and Resilience under the Israeli Occupation. The case of the old town of Nablus, Palestine This research is an ethnographic-phenomenological interpretation of the inhabitants' traumatic experience of the 2002 Israeli invasion (Edjteyah) and the …
This dissertation is a story of the evolution of the domestic sphere of the Margi ethnic group of northeastern Nigeria. The evolution started with round huts and fences that were constructed mainly with pieces of stones while living in the Mandara Mountain enclaves and with mud …
European modernist architectural design and urban planning for suburbs have often been theorized as dystopic creation myths. These narratives focus on the unfulfilled promises of activist designers to deliver equality, overscaled and generic neighborhoods, and contemporary socia…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country with history, values and traditions. The traditional houses all over the country reflect the sensitivity of the people who constructed them toward their needs, environment and resources. The change which affects every aspect of life in Sa…
This dissertation explores the contemporary place of Islam in urban life through a mixed-methods project based in Istanbul, Turkey. In cities around the world, the form and practice of Islam is being reshaped by new kinds of political governance, economic development, and cultur…
Where about 2 million people perform Hajj and visit the Holy places in Makkah and al-Madina. Pilgrimage is considered one of the largest event in the world. The increase in the pilgrims' number does not follow with an increase in the accommodation and built environment needs. As…
Storm surge flooding in low-lying coastal cities is among the costliest and deadliest natural disasters. Sea-level rise due to global warming is expected to increase the intensity of coastal flooding. A quantitative understanding of flood hazards and vulnerability is necessary f…
Rad istražuje trgovačke objekte nastale u periodu prelaza iz 19. u 20. vek u Kragujevcu kao prostore koji definišu vizuelni identitet grada i sagledava njihov nastanak i razvoj. Navedeni objekti predstavljaju najlepše trgovačke objekte nastale u okviru jezgra grada Kraguejvca. Z…
This thesis considers the ways built environment practitioners, namely urban planners, architectural designers, and real estate developers, imagine the spaces they plan, design, and develop. In particular, it examines the built and social consequences of said imaginings through …
In the history of architecture women and women of color have faced, and continue to face, many challenges in entering and progressing within the architecture industry. According to AIA surveys, only seventeen percent of women gain licensure and move to upper levels of management…
Building the White Right of Textile Work explores how racial motivations propelled the capitalist venture of textiles to the American south beginning in the 1880s. The dissertation offers a case study of the textile company Dan River Mills and its mill village of Schoolfield nea…