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Space, gender and urban architecture / Cyrus Vakili-Zad (Cities Centre, University of Toronto/University of Malta, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Vakili-Zad, Cyrus, 1939- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2018]
Series:Focus on civilizations and cultures.
Subjects:
Knights of Malta > Influence.
Architecture and women > Malta.
Balconies > Social aspects > Malta.
Balconies > Social aspects > Islamic countries.
Space (Architecture) > Social aspects > Malta.
Women > Malta > Social conditions.
Knights of Malta.
Architecture and women.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Space (Architecture) > Social aspects.
Women > Social conditions.
Islamic countries.
Malta.
Table of Contents:
  • Malta and the Mediterranean Sea
  • An architectural innovation to segregate and control the space
  • Covered-balconies 'gallarija'
  • the source of the model
  • Maltese gallarijia
  • review of the literature
  • The development of Islamic empire & expansion into the Mediterranean
  • Muslim cities
  • the management and control of the space
  • Islamic architecture and the development of Maltese 'gallarijia'
  • The control of the space and Muslim women
  • The Normans in Malta and the end of Muslim rule
  • Valletta, the new city and the new capital
  • The Valletta, the nuns & the prostitutes
  • The status of women in Europe
  • The status of women during the Knights & the function of the gallarija
  • The cultural legacy of the Knights and domestic violence
  • The Knights in Malta
  • magistral palace and the first gallariji
  • The successful adaptations of boxed-balconies in Malta
  • Building gallarija
  • diffusion of knowledge & transfer of ideas
  • The end of hostility, concluding remarks & recommendations.

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