Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal

Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal

Ancient cities have a great cultural heritage in which the residential buildings form a proportion of up to 60%. These cities are characterised by meeting living population needs. However, the socio-economic and cultural developments occurred in the Palestinian society prompted many residents to aba...

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Main Authors: Shehada, Ziad, Yaacob, Naziaty, Keumal, Nila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying and UiTM Press 2014
Subjects:
Rehabilitation
Vernacular architecture
Housing
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13626/
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spelling uitm-136262016-05-16T07:16:40Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13626/ Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal Shehada, Ziad Yaacob, Naziaty Keumal, Nila Rehabilitation Vernacular architecture Housing Ancient cities have a great cultural heritage in which the residential buildings form a proportion of up to 60%. These cities are characterised by meeting living population needs. However, the socio-economic and cultural developments occurred in the Palestinian society prompted many residents to abandon their traditional homes as they did not respond to the renewable community needs. The research aims to highlight the systematic rehabilitation of the heritage houses in Hebron old city (as a case study), and measure the satisfaction level of the residents through survey questionnaire. The research finds that traditional housing can meet the modern requirements through rehabilitation and achieves high degree of people s satisfaction. Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying and UiTM Press 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13626/1/AJ_ZIAD%20SHEHADA%20BEJ%2014%201.pdf Shehada, Ziad and Yaacob, Naziaty and Keumal, Nila (2014) Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal. Built Environment Journal (BEJ), 11 (2). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1675-5022 https://bej.uitm.edu.my/
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topic Rehabilitation
Vernacular architecture
Housing
spellingShingle Rehabilitation
Vernacular architecture
Housing
Shehada, Ziad
Yaacob, Naziaty
Keumal, Nila
Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal
description Ancient cities have a great cultural heritage in which the residential buildings form a proportion of up to 60%. These cities are characterised by meeting living population needs. However, the socio-economic and cultural developments occurred in the Palestinian society prompted many residents to abandon their traditional homes as they did not respond to the renewable community needs. The research aims to highlight the systematic rehabilitation of the heritage houses in Hebron old city (as a case study), and measure the satisfaction level of the residents through survey questionnaire. The research finds that traditional housing can meet the modern requirements through rehabilitation and achieves high degree of people s satisfaction.
format Article
author Shehada, Ziad
Yaacob, Naziaty
Keumal, Nila
author_facet Shehada, Ziad
Yaacob, Naziaty
Keumal, Nila
author_sort Shehada, Ziad
title Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal
title_short Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal
title_full Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal
title_fullStr Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal
title_full_unstemmed Rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / Ziad Shehada, Naziaty Yaacob and Nila Keumal
title_sort rehabilitation of the traditional dwellings: a strategy for alleviating housing dilemma / ziad shehada, naziaty yaacob and nila keumal
publisher Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying and UiTM Press
publishDate 2014
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13626/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13626/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13626/1/AJ_ZIAD%20SHEHADA%20BEJ%2014%201.pdf
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