Cyrus Vakili‐zad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3489295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyrus Vakili‐zad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyrus |
| FAMILY NAME | Vakili‐zad |
| SIGNATURE | ZAD C V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Maltese ‘ gallarija’
In Malta, there are hundreds of balconies, especially in Valletta. However, the most fascinating ones are boxed-balconies known as ‘Gallarijia’ in Maltese. The Knights, an ultra religious Roman Catholic military Order who ruled Malta for over 260 years, adopted covered-balconies designed and used in Muslim countries; in the hope that it would ensure their segregated life style as well as; concealing their illicit sexual activities with Maltese wo…
High Vacancy Rates and Rising House Prices
In a ‘normal’ housing market, one would expect that rising house prices go together with low vacancy rates and vice versa. However, in Spain, this has not been the case. Until very recently, Spain was characterised by strongly rising house prices as well as by a high rate of vacant dwellings. This is the Spanish paradox. This exploratory paper attempts to explain this paradox from a welfare regime perspective. The Spanish welfare and housing syst…
High dwelling vacancy rate and high prices of housing in Malta a mediterranean phenomenon
Counting the homeless in Malta
Collision of consciousness
This is a study of the development of thoughts and theories of social change and modemization in Iran. In this article, intellectuals (both modern and traditional) are defined with regard to their background, education and perceived role in the modernization process. The metaphor known as the 'package of modernity' is applied to analyse the work and the life of prominent Iranian intellectuals by grouping them into three trends or orientations. Th…
Conflict among the ruling revolutionary elite in Iran
Cette etude est une analyse sociologique de la composition des membres des trois parlements (Majlis) formes apres la revolution et l'instauration de la Republique Islamique d'Iran. Le but est de mettre en evidence la correlation existante entre le milieu socio-economique d'une certaine elite et son orientation et son comportement politiques. Les resultats de l'analyse de certains projets de loi presentes par les Majlis seront ensuite compares a c…
Tenant participation and control in public housing in Canada
High Vacancy Rates and Rising House Prices
In a ‘normal’ housing market, one would expect that rising house prices go together with low vacancy rates and vice versa. However, in Spain, this has not been the case. Until very recently, Spain was characterised by strongly rising house prices as well as by a high rate of vacant dwellings. This is the Spanish paradox. This exploratory paper attempts to explain this paradox from a welfare regime perspective. The Spanish welfare and housing syst…
High dwelling vacancy rate and high prices of housing in Malta a mediterranean phenomenon
Conflict among the ruling revolutionary elite in Iran
Cette etude est une analyse sociologique de la composition des membres des trois parlements (Majlis) formes apres la revolution et l'instauration de la Republique Islamique d'Iran. Le but est de mettre en evidence la correlation existante entre le milieu socio-economique d'une certaine elite et son orientation et son comportement politiques. Les resultats de l'analyse de certains projets de loi presentes par les Majlis seront ensuite compares a c…
Collision of consciousness
This is a study of the development of thoughts and theories of social change and modemization in Iran. In this article, intellectuals (both modern and traditional) are defined with regard to their background, education and perceived role in the modernization process. The metaphor known as the 'package of modernity' is applied to analyse the work and the life of prominent Iranian intellectuals by grouping them into three trends or orientations. Th…
Tenant participation and control in public housing in Canada
Conflict among the ruling revolutionary elite in Iran
Cette etude est une analyse sociologique de la composition des membres des trois parlements (Majlis) formes apres la revolution et l'instauration de la Republique Islamique d'Iran. Le but est de mettre en evidence la correlation existante entre le milieu socio-economique d'une certaine elite et son orientation et son comportement politiques. Les resultats de l'analyse de certains projets de loi presentes par les Majlis seront ensuite compares a c…
Collision of consciousness
This is a study of the development of thoughts and theories of social change and modemization in Iran. In this article, intellectuals (both modern and traditional) are defined with regard to their background, education and perceived role in the modernization process. The metaphor known as the 'package of modernity' is applied to analyse the work and the life of prominent Iranian intellectuals by grouping them into three trends or orientations. Th…
Counting the homeless in Malta
High Vacancy Rates and Rising House Prices
In a ‘normal’ housing market, one would expect that rising house prices go together with low vacancy rates and vice versa. However, in Spain, this has not been the case. Until very recently, Spain was characterised by strongly rising house prices as well as by a high rate of vacant dwellings. This is the Spanish paradox. This exploratory paper attempts to explain this paradox from a welfare regime perspective. The Spanish welfare and housing syst…
High dwelling vacancy rate and high prices of housing in Malta a mediterranean phenomenon
Maltese ‘ gallarija’
In Malta, there are hundreds of balconies, especially in Valletta. However, the most fascinating ones are boxed-balconies known as ‘Gallarijia’ in Maltese. The Knights, an ultra religious Roman Catholic military Order who ruled Malta for over 260 years, adopted covered-balconies designed and used in Muslim countries; in the hope that it would ensure their segregated life style as well as; concealing their illicit sexual activities with Maltese wo…
Political science (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Geography (2 works)