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

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Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2018]

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Description	1 online resource.
	text file
Series	Focus on civilizations and cultures
	Focus on civilizations and cultures.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Knights of Malta -- Influence.
	Knights of Malta.
	Architecture and women -- Malta.
	Architecture and women.
	Malta.
	Balconies -- Social aspects -- Malta.
	Balconies.
	Social aspects.
	Balconies -- Social aspects -- Islamic countries.
	Islamic countries.
	Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- Malta.
	Women -- Malta -- Social conditions.
	Women.
	Social conditions.
	ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
	Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects.
	ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management.
	Space (Architecture)
	ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design.
	Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
	Women -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Vakili-Zad, Cyrus, 1939- Space, gender and urban architecture. Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., 2016 9781634852814 (DLC) 2016018881
ISBN	9781634852982
	1634852982
	9781634852814 (hardcover)
	1634852818

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

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