Environmental Urbanization Assessment Using GIS and Multicriteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study for Denizli (Turkey) Municipal Area

In recent years, life quality of the urban areas is a growing interest of civil engineering.Environmental quality is essential to display the position of sustainable development and asserts the corresponding countermeasures to the protection of environment.Urban environmental quality involves multidisciplinary parameters and difficulties to be anal

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Bottle Gourd as an Implement for the Poor in Roman Italy

Bottle gourds, which are thought to have originated in Africa, have been collected and cultivated in Italy since antiquity for the making of vessels and utensils, as well as food, musical instruments, and fishing buoys (Janick, Paris and Parish, 2007, p.1441).Columella and Pliny Dorbz the Elder both write extensively about the uses of bottle gourds

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