The contribution questions the prospective role of recently rehabilitated garden railway workers' housing district, a.k.a. "Cité des Cheminots", in Sétif, Algeria, through its immediate environment and multiple vocations district. In current state, it highlights imbalances Algerian urban fabric by reducing space to needs easements, denoting articulatory as resulting from planning traditional ci...

New buildings continue to be constructed in historic districts as urbanization accelerates. This leads incongruities between and modern buildings, well degradation of the landscape. As a means resolving these problems, this study uses expert scoring method solicit opinions from relevant experts through anonymous methods for architectural samples establishes two groups images that have been scre...

Historic urban areas are a significant part of each city not only due to having irreplaceable cultural and social resources, but also due to their attractive patterns of life. They have being threatened by strong development trends. This paper aims to investigate the impacts of redevelopment trends in the historic city of Shiraz, Iran. The paper begins by highlighting historical development in ...

Isfahan is a historic city that has experienced several urban developments throughout its shining and glorious past. They began in Al-buyid and Seljuq periods, and continued through the Safavid urban evolution in the sixteenth century. Zayande-Rood is an important and effective natural element in the city's landscape and plan. This article reflects the conclusion of a historic study on revit...

The “Design for All” (DfA, 2010) strategy proposes a general framework for accessibility to Cultural Heritage able to integrate 3D Documentation, Information and Management (3DIM) Systems in monitored environments. Interoperability between information systems requires a common reference framework developed as a semantic layer based on an ontology. This ontology integrates concepts and relations...

Stream sediments from the mining and smelting district of Príbram, Czech Republic, were studied to determine the degree, sources and dispersal of metal contamination using a combination of bulk metal and mineralogical determinations, sequential extractions and Pb isotopic analyses. The highest metal concentrations were found 3-4 km downstream from the main polymetallic mining site (9800 mg Pb k...

Marijuana smoke is blanketing the United States. Medical marijuana dispensaries outnumber coffee shops in some communities. And no matter where you go, there’s no escaping the debate over whether the drug should be legalized for medical or recreational purposes. Thus far, 20 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing medical use of marijuana. An additional 15, including Minne...

This paper includes the most important findings of a series of linear analyses focusing on the development of failure that is identified through different failure criteria. The historic monument which was selected for this investigation is the church of Agia Triada, in the District of Karditsa, Greece. The numerical simulation for the church of Agia Triada includes all parts of the super-struct...