due to structural characteristics and spiritual concepts which are latent inside iranian gardens, it has always drawn attention of domestic and foreign researchers and one of the objectives of these researchers was an attempt to achieve historical garden model in iran which have been modified or subjected to decline. the studies, which have been carried out concerning to iranian historical gard...

This paper argues for analyzing the systematic invisibility of persons living with disabilities by temporalizing their oppression within a framework of “productive time,” which I posit as a normative sense of time by which cultural products and practices appear within capitalist economies. I argue that productive time is employed in cultural evaluations of actions that render persons with disab...

Patterns of family life, debates in politics, religious observances, technological inventions, scientiŽc beliefs, literature, and the arts – all of these things are aspects of human culture. Typically we deŽne a broad concept of human culture in contrast to physical and biological processes. One key feature differentiates the cultural even if the precise boundaries between it, the physical, and...

Delhi is one of the ancient historical and greatest cultural cities of the World. Delhi’s two monuments the Qutb Minar and Humayun’s Tomb have been declared the World Cultural Heritage sites. Delhi was built and rebuilt seven times on different sites through out the history within a triangular area of about 142.20 sq. kms. lying between the last ridge of the Aravalli Range and the River Yamuna....