Abstract Heritage buildings represent elements of territorial identity the cities due to multiple valences they incorporate (historical, architectural, artistic, and cultural). Due particular characteristics built heritage, possibilities reuse are associated with it. Thus, evaluation economic use value heritage is justified. This work aims evaluate historical monuments located in protected urba...

When E. P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class he sought to produce a history of people enmeshed in a struggle for self-determination and selfrealization against great opposition. His was not a work of abstraction. It described real individuals in real situations and placed them all in a context rich enough to make the book accessible to the working-class people of his own da...

variety of iran’s ecological structures has created many cultural landscapes. cultural landscapes, illustrate a combination of man’s persistent life and the art of land modification by means of natural environment and in the form of human settlements in past ages. currently, the human society’s development beside the scientific growth, man’s increasing use of natural resources and negative cons...

Cultural heritages and historical buildings are vulnerable against severe threats from fire. Since the 1970s, ten fire-spread events involving historic buildings have occurred in Taiwan, affecting a total of 132 nearby buildings. Developed under the influence of traditional Taiwanese culture, historic buildings in Taiwan are often built using non-fire resistant brick-wood structure and located ...

Interpreting comparative observations from diverse world cultures poses the dilemma of how to unfold the wide variety of functional and historical processes observed in cultural systems. Do correlations among cultural variables represent functional relations or historical adhesions? Some elements are acquired through independent invention (including functional adaptation), others through common...

The architecture of residential spaces in Isfahan has put forward treasured examples to the world of art and architecture through history. House is one of the most important forms of the social organization of space in which numerous factors have been influential in its construction just like many other human-made complexes. Due to the changes in the recent century, historical houses are severe...

Interpreting comparative observations from diverse world cultures poses the dilemma of how to unfold the wide variety of functional and historical processes observed in cultural systems. Do correlations among cultural variables represent functional relations or historical adhesions? Some elements are acquired through independent invention (including functional adaptation), others through common...