From its Gate of the Sun to its Gate of the Moon, temples and palaces lined its spacious streets. Marbled columns and glittering statues dazzled visitors. Alexandria witnessed not only the romance of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra but also the genius of the greatest mathematicians and boasted the world‟s first and greatest public library, a library whose aim was to contain a copy of every book eve...

I will observe to you that wonderful improvements are making here in various lines. In architecture the wall ofcircumvallation round Paris and the palaces by which we are to be let in and out are nearly compleated [sic], 4 hospitals are to be built instead ofthe old Hotel-Dieu, one of the old bridges has all it's [sic] houses demolished and a second nearly so, a new bridge is begun at the Place...

Some of the ancient Algerian cities represent purely historical landmarks that highlight backgrounds successive civilizations, and with observed variation in climatic zones resulted emergence desert palaces, are a living example human adaptation to peculiarities region which they grew up, The palaces cultural heritage reflects effects past generations an urban expresses large degree specificity...

The city of L’Aquila (Italy) includes a significant amount masonry palaces erected from the middle 13th century up to first half 20th century. This paper focuses on seismic response palace built during and characterized by regularity in plan elevation. authors investigate varying suite modelling parameters that express actual scatter mechanical properties typical L’Aquila. discuss performance e...