Table of contents - Special Issue: Sustainable planning, urban design and architecture in the Middle East and North Africa region
Overview: the opportunity of BIM in railway
Mounir Bensalah, Abdelmajid Elouadi, Hassan MharziThe authors will give an overview of the railway market, with a focus on Morocco, before seeing the challenges to face, before listing some benefits of rail links in terms of…
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Mathematical optimisation of location and design of windows by considering energy performance, lighting and privacy of buildings
Ahmed Hammad, Ali Akbarnezhad, Hanna Grzybowska, Peng Wu, Xiangyu WangThe Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is known for its extreme weather conditions during Summer. A major determinant of the sustainability of the design of a building is…
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The social imperative in sustainable urban development: The case of Masdar City in the United Arab Emirates
Kasim Randeree, Nadeem AhmedThe purpose of this paper is to examine social sustainability effectiveness of eco-cities through the case of Masdar City’s strategy for urban sustainability in Abu Dhabi, United…
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A quasi-experimental method for testing rural design support within a DRM framework
Michaël Willem Maria SmitsThe purpose of this paper is to describe the quasi-experiment setting to test the formulated design support (developed in the author’s PhD research) within a design research…
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ISSN:
2046-6099e-ISSN:
2046-6102ISSN-L:
2046-6099Online date, start – end:
2012Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Farzad Pour Rahimian