Urban Planning and Religious Practice: Three Challenges by Manouchehrifar, Babak

“…This approach, I argue, invites planners to employ ethnography and examine the actual lived situations (in courtrooms, planning offices, or public meetings) wherein competing conceptions of “lived religion” surround specific substantive planning issues, e.g., zoning or public health deliberations.…”
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Analysing courthouses’ spaces, places and architecture: Some methodological outlines by Patrícia Branco

“…I will particularly focus on the following methods: 1. visiting courthouse buildings, in order to examine, among other elements, localities, façades, courtrooms and other areas and spaces; 2. photographing the different angles/spaces, and 3. writing down a field diary with all my observations of the trips, visits, and encounters. …”
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The Meeting: Ideas for an Architecture of Interreligious Civic Collaboration by Steven G. Smith

“…But there are nonsectarian ways to create an appreciably <i>special</i>, non-ordinary space, as in courtrooms and classrooms. Could a civic IE headquarters be special, expressive of practical optimism, and contain a sufficient religious allusion to qualify as a “next-to-sacred space” in which religious actors felt supported in the civic extension of their religious lives? …”
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