The Courtyard House: Can a Sustainable Future Learn from a Context Relevant Past

This paper looks at the courtyard house as a traditional urban dwellings of yesteryears with a view to explore its potential in informing the housing developments of the future.Â In order to address the question, the paper starts with a historical overview of this built form as an urban dwellings t...

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Published in:	Environmental Science and Sustainable Development
Main Author:	Hocine Bougdah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEREK Press 2016-12-01
Subjects:	Courtyard house, urabn development, typology, cultural relevance, environmental performance, traditional architecture, sustainable development
Online Access:	https://press.ierek.com/index.php/ESSD/article/view/17

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