Challenges of Maintaining Housing Structures in the Old City of Hebron

The question of dating an urban settlement, if its date has no clear or specific written confirmation, is always very problematic and complicated. Its solution requires the use of the widest possible range of data. This research is presented in a block of articles that attempt to cover the source-historiographical study of the existence of the second Kostroma Kremlin, including the latest archaeological data from 2016-2017 on the territory of the Old city of the second Kostroma Kremlin. The study raises questions about the conditions, specifics and dating of the foundation of the first and second Kostroma Kremlins, their nature of development, the conditions for obtaining the icon Our Lady of Saint Theodore in Kostroma and its storage location in both Kremlins. The question of the place, time and conditions of the construction of the Assumption Cathedral is considered separately, since only research on the conditions and dating of its construction can shed light on the date of the foundation of the Old city of the second Kostroma Kremlin. Article 2 continues this block of research, which refers us to the time and conditions of building the Dormition Cathedral.

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URBAN HERITAGE AREAS THROUGH THE SCOPE OF GREEN ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS (OLD CITY OF SANA'A AS AN EXAMPLE)

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences ◽

10.21608/jesaun.2007.114365 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 1041-1055

Author(s):

Wael A. Mokbel, ◽

Ezzat A. Morghany ◽

Shawkat A. Alkady

Keyword(s):

Green Architecture ◽

Urban Heritage ◽

Old City

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Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743820000768 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 607-621

Author(s):

Faedah M. Totah

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Daily Life ◽

National Belonging ◽

Palestinian Refugees ◽

Social Distinction ◽

Urban Refugees ◽

Old City ◽

Refugee Experience ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

AbstractThe camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Furthermore, there is little attention to how refugees understand the concept of the city and camp in their daily life. This article examines how Palestinian urban refugees in the Old City of Damascus conceptualized the relationship between the camp and the city. It illustrates how the concept of the camp remained necessary for the construction of their collective national identity while in Syria. However, the city was essential in the articulation of individual desires and establishing social distinction from other refugees. Thus, during a protracted exile it is in the interstice between the city and the camp, where most urban refugees in the Old City situated themselves, that informed their national belonging and personal aspirations.

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Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci10030101 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 101

Author(s):

Natthakit Phetsuriya ◽

Tim Heath

Keyword(s):

Management Strategies ◽

Place Identity ◽

Heritage Management ◽

World Heritage Site ◽

Local People ◽

Cultural Dynamics ◽

Chiang Mai ◽

Urban Heritage ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Old City

Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of defining place identity. This paper aims to define the identity of place through the distinctiveness of the urban heritage of Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Chiang Mai Old City has unprecedented levels of diversity and a cultural dynamics related to its intangible and tangible urban heritage. Moreover, the city is in the important stage of being nominated as a new World Heritage Site of UNESCO, with the city’s distinctiveness being significant in supporting further heritage management strategies. The research presented in this paper mainly focuses on how local people interpret and understand the urban heritage identity of Chiang Mai Old City. This has been achieved through surveys of four hundred participants who live in the Old City and a two-way focus group with five participants in each group. The results provide seven aspects to describe the distinctiveness of Chiang Mai Old City. Moreover, the results can also be used to develop an assessment indicator for defining the distinctiveness of other cities through the engagement of local people.

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Microbial ecology of the newly discovered serpentinite-hosted Old City hydrothermal field (southwest Indian ridge)

The ISME Journal ◽

10.1038/s41396-020-00816-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aurélien Lecoeuvre ◽

Bénédicte Ménez ◽

Mathilde Cannat ◽

Valérie Chavagnac ◽

Emmanuelle Gérard

Keyword(s):

Microbial Ecology ◽

New Caledonia ◽

Southwest Indian Ridge ◽

Hydrothermal Field ◽

Metagenomic Sequencing ◽

Lost City ◽

Old City ◽

Mid Atlantic Ridge ◽

Indian Ridge ◽

Geochemical Analyses

Abstract Lost City (mid-Atlantic ridge) is a unique oceanic hydrothermal field where carbonate-brucite chimneys are colonized by a single phylotype of archaeal Methanosarcinales, as well as sulfur- and methane-metabolizing bacteria. So far, only one submarine analog of Lost City has been characterized, the Prony Bay hydrothermal field (New Caledonia), which nonetheless shows more microbiological similarities with ecosystems associated with continental ophiolites. This study presents the microbial ecology of the ‘Lost City’-type Old City hydrothermal field, recently discovered along the southwest Indian ridge. Five carbonate-brucite chimneys were sampled and subjected to mineralogical and geochemical analyses, microimaging, as well as 16S rRNA-encoding gene and metagenomic sequencing. Dominant taxa and metabolisms vary between chimneys, in conjunction with the predicted redox state, while potential formate- and CO-metabolizing microorganisms as well as sulfur-metabolizing bacteria are always abundant. We hypothesize that the variable environmental conditions resulting from the slow and diffuse hydrothermal fluid discharge that currently characterizes Old City could lead to different microbial populations between chimneys that utilize CO and formate differently as carbon or electron sources. Old City discovery and this first description of its microbial ecology opens up attractive perspectives for understanding environmental factors shaping communities and metabolisms in oceanic serpentinite-hosted ecosystems.

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