In developing a disaster resilience pathway, exploring the basic underlying characteristics of given context for it to be resilient is vital. Resilient properties terminology used name that needs embedded in resilient. Built environment plays key role building societal resilience, but synthesized set built discourse lacking, which focus this chapter. A descriptive or mapping review conducted id...

In this paper, a house is assumedas an expression of culture. It has been tried to study a Qajar1 house in Tabriz, in terms of its ties with cultural context.Methods and viewpoints of Amos Rapoport have been used in order to identify and peruse the circumstance of this relationship. The main reason for using Rapoport's viewpoints to understand Salmasi House, as a case study, in addition to cont...

Due to the change of lifestyle and improvement of public health the number of aged people has considerably increased. Considering the relationship of the environment and people, the built environment features could exacerbate or facilitate the elderly people’s vulnerability and social needs. Recently, a large number of studies have put emphasis on the relationship between the neighborhood...