Moreover, after the implementation of the grid plan, urban planning historiography treats the colonial city a Western creation almost exclusively, and is quiet about the variegated vernacular responses to this urban form.
Now emerging is what could be called a posthurricane vernacular, wide-ranging architectural responses to what everyone here refers to simply as the Storm.
This paper aims to systematically capture the hazard responses of vernacular architecture of Assam and upgrade the same with thoughtful introduction of amphibious foundation for modern but affordable bamboo-based hybrid construction.
This paper evaluates specific vernacular dwelling types and their response to climate, based on passive design principles that could be adapted to current architectural practice in the area, in order to optimize the relationship between site, building and climate.
Vernacular sod roofs were developed serendipitously in response to harsh environments and lack of durable building materials.
At a moment when the emerging British fashion was for spikily vernacular Scottish and Irish writers — Roddy Doyle, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh — the response to St. Aubyn's elegant prose was muted.
In response to these harsh development conditions, numerous vernacular practices and styles have evolved with local materials and indigenous techniques to fulfil the needs of people, which cause minimal damage to environment and are sustainable.
Analyzing theoretical underpinnings of urban and environmental sustainability, the compact city model has been used to illustrate and evaluate an example of vernacular architecture and organic urban design as a climatic response in desert cities of Iran.
For example, student responses showed a blurring of the distinctions between scientific hypotheses and theories, possibly conflating the vernacular use of the word "theory" with their understanding of hypotheses.
Ms. Hughes says she wants to establish a "rapid response" unit to counter such stories and to train diplomats to deliver defenses and rebuttals in the local vernacular.
