• Describing a Unique Urban Culture: Ibadi Settlements of North Africa 

  Polimeni, Beniamino (Book chapter)

  Abstract. This paper examines the urban structure and architecture of the North African regions, which are characterised by the historical presence of Ibadism. This topic has a definite cultural frame, albeit with some ...
• On otherness - Looking at (different ways of) inculcating diversity 

  Epolito, G. (Book chapter)
• Around Madrid: the continuing influence of historical urban development plans on today’s periphery 

  Martinez- Perez, A. ; Walker, Stephen (Article)

  ABSTRACT This paper describes the peripheral development that has occurred in Madrid over the last 16 years (2000–2016), a period split by the economic crash that occurred in 2008. The paper argues that the relationship ...
• Afterword 

  Panayi, Panikos (Book chapter)

  This article provides a summary of the contributions to the book edited by Hannah Ewence and Tim Grady on 'Minorities and the First World War'
• Refugees and the End of Empire 

  Panayi, Panikos (Book chapter)

  The major Empires that collapsed during the twentieth century produced successor states which developed new forms of exclusivist nationalist ideologies which identified, and often expelled, sectors of their populations ...
• SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATIONS FOR DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION IN UNITED KINGDOM 

  Odedra, Jiva Lakhabhai (Thesis)

  This research study identifies the key elements, the drivers and barriers which impact on the innovative supply chain practices of the building products suppliers and therefore the sustainability of the UK construction ...
• Social and Environmental Sustainability for Better Quality of Life in Residential High-Rises 

  Kalcheva, Elena ; Taki, A. H. ; Hadi, Yuri (Article)

  The quality of life in residential high-rise buildings is an understudied area which is important due to the large proportion of the population inhabiting them. The approaches that link sustainability with the quality of ...
• Infrastructure of Bulgarian High-Rise Estates: Realities and Hopes 

  Kalcheva, Elena ; Taki, A. H. ; Hadi, Yuri (Book chapter)

  This chapter studies the quality and characteristics of the infrastructure in several high-rise estates in Sofia, Bulgaria and evaluates to which extend it serves the residents in the tall buildings. Most of the highrises in ...
• The Truth about Grenfell Tower: A report by Architects for Social Housing 

  Dening, Geraldine ; Elmer, Simon (Technical Report)

  On Thursday, 22 June, 2017, in response to the Grenfell Tower fire the previous week, Architects for Social Housing held an open meeting in the Residents Centre of Cotton Gardens estate in Lambeth. Around 80 people turned ...
• The Good Practice Guide to Resisting Estate Demolition: ASH response to the GLA 

  Dening, Geraldine ; Elmer, Simon (Article)

  Unfortunately it takes longer to unwrap a lie than it does to tie it with a pretty bow and sell it to ‘the People’, and the Greater London Authority’s Draft Good Practice Guide to Estate Regeneration, published in December ...
• ASH exhibition at the ICA 

  Dening, Geraldine ; Elmer, Simon (Other)

  From the 14-20 August ASH had a residency in the Upper Galleries of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. During the week we hosted several talks on aspects of London’s housing ‘crisis’, including a presentation ...
• Knights Walk: Alternative to Demolition 

  Dening, Geraldine (Article)

  Architects for Social Housing were asked by the residents of Knights Walk - a low rise part of a housing estate in Kennington, South London - to come up with alternatives to the demolition of their homes. Demolition for ...
• Feasibility Study: West Kensington and Gibbs Green 

  Dening, Geraldine; (Technical Report)

  This report was produced in collaboration with ASH (Architects for Social Housing) for West Kensington and Gibbs Green Community Homes as part of their People's plan, and formed part of their business case for their ...
• Open Garden Estates 

  Dening, Geraldine (Technical Report)

  Open Garden Estates is an initiative for residents on council estates threatened with demolition. It is an opportunity for residents to open up their estate’s green areas, communal spaces and private gardens to the public, ...
• Ritualizaed Architecture in East Mexico 

  Montalvo, Luis Fernando Zapata (Article / Conference)

  ABSTRACT: The Papaloapan River in East Mexico is a rich region historically, culturally and naturally. These characteristics are also reflected in the region’s vernacular architecture. This fascination with the built ...
• MEDITERRANEITÀ Desired and Realised: The Imposition of the Fascist Aesthetic Ideology of Mediterranean-ness Overseas from 1935 to 1940 

  Epolito, G. (Book chapter)

  In the 1920s, fascist ideologues promised Italians a prosperous global empire, one which would expand to include lands of the former Roman Empire and beyond. Imperial expansionism was not only geo-political, but also ...
• Parallel Expressions 

  Epolito, G. (Book chapter)

  This chapter reveals the artistic contributions of Italian immigrants in the Río de la Plata Basin of South America—Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil—which ran parallel to the lifetime of Simon Rodia in the United ...
• Community planning and urban design in contested places. Some insights from Belfast 

  Esposito De Vita, G. ; Trillo, C. ; Martinez- Perez, A. (Article)

  Although social conflict due to the presence of different groups divided by cultural, religious or ethnic issues plagues many contemporary cities, community and participatory planning methods still pay little attention to ...
• Displaced Homo Viatores/Liminal Personae - Emilio Pettoruti & Lina Bo Bardi. Defying Classification in the Cultural Spaces between the Old & New Worlds 

  Epolito, G. (Conference)

  ‘The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae (“threshold people”) are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these people elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states ...
• "Hey amigo! do you want to go on a trip? do you want mushrooms?" 

  Montalvo, Luis Fernando Zapata (Article)

  The Mazatec people from the northern highlands of the Mexican State of Oaxaca are known for the syncretism of their religion, which combines pre-Hispanic culture and Catholic religion introduced with Spanish colonization ...

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