Archnet-IJAR:
International Journal of Architectural Research
Electronic Academic Refereed Journal

- ISSN - International (Online) 1994-6961
- ISSN - United States (Online) 1938-7806
- OCLC & World Cat (Online Computer Library Center) # 145980807
- Library of Congress Catalogue # 2007212183

- Covered by EBSCO Products, EBSCO-Art and Architecture Database.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.
- INTUTE: Arts and Humanities Database.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals.
- ProQuest Arts and Humanities Database.
- Scopus (Elsevier)

ArchNet-IJAR is an interdisciplinary scholarly online publication of architecture, planning, and built environment studies. The journal aims at establishing a bridge between theory and practice in the fields of architectural and design research, and urban planning and built environment studies. The journal has two international boards; advisory and editorial. The range of knowledge and expertise of the boards members ensures high quality scholarly papers and allows for a comprehensive academic review of contributions that span wide spectrum of issues, methods, theoretical approach and architectural and development practices.

Archnet-IJAR is archived by ARCHNET, the most comprehensive online community for architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, landscape architects, and scholars working in these fields, developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in close cooperation with, and with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.

All contributors grant Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) worldwide rights and permission to reproduce, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform the following Work in electronic format on the ArchNet Internet web site at URL http://archnet.org.

Interested academics, researchers, practitioners may contact Professor Ashraf M. Salama, Chief Editor at asalama@archnetijaronline.org.

- IJAR on Archnet Digital Library http://archnet.org/library/documents/
- Archnet-IJAR website http://www.archnetijaronline.org/

...Chief Editor: Ashraf M. Salama, Advisory Board: Attilio Petruccioli; Besim Hakim; Hashim Sarkis; Henry Sanoff; Jamel Akbar; Mohamad Al-Asad; Michael Crosbie; Nasser Rabbat; Nicholas Wilkinson; Nikos Salingaros; Peter Rowe; Suha Ozkan, Editorial-Scientific Board: Ahmed Elseragy, Akhtar Chauhan, Aleya Abel-Hadi, Ali Cengizkan, Amer Moustafa, Amira Elnokaly, Anne Beamish, Budi Sukada, Chengzhi Peng, Dalila Al-Kerdani, Donatella Mazzoleni, Ebru Cubukcu, Eman El-Nachar, Fuad Mallick, Hisham Elkadi, Hulya Turgut, Ihab Elzeyadi, M. Alaa Mandour, Malika Bose, Magda Sibley, Mashary Al-Naim, Mirjana Lozanovska, Nada Al Nafea, Peter Kellett, Rabee Reffat, Remah Y. Gharib (Collaborating Editor), Sonja Nebel, Yasser El- Shehstawy, Yasser Mahgoub.