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New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]
, 2016 From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
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Technical Aesthetics and Design Research, 2020 During the historical period of industrial development of North, the question of a necessity of city construction in the North is relevant. On the one hand, cities allow formation the sociocultural infrastructure, providing comfortable accommodation as well as formation the conditions for the stable development of the region (vs.
I. Myasnikova, S. Prokopova
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Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics [PDF]
Antipode, 2003 This essay considers the work of social reproduction as it unfolds within the cultural realm in both national and diasporic contexts. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of Malgudi—the quintessential Indian hometown created in the 1930s by one of India's most venerated writers, R K Narayan—I go on to argue that in the preindependence days, this
Rosemary Marangoly George
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NEW AESTHETICS OF THE CITY – DESIGN OF CYCLISTS TRAFFIC SIGNS
TRANSPORT, 2005 In a number of towns and cities worldwide development programmes have been initiated to provide designated bike surfaces reserved for the movement of cyclists along city network. There has been an increase in the use of a bicycle as a regular means of personal transport, particularly in recent years when technical solutions and modern materials have ...
Stanić, Branimir, Vujin, Darko
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English Studies in Africa, 2022 This article looks at the relatively recent tendency to aestheticize life in Nairobi’s working-class and informal neighbourhoods in different forms of art and media. It focuses on two case studies – Steve Bloom’s photobook, Trading Places: The Merchants of Nairobi (2009) and the first issue of the Kenyan literary magazine Kwani? (2003).
Nicklas Hållén
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Aesthetics, Authenticity & City Place-Making
Rivista di esteticaCities’ constructed environments position urban areas at the center of importance. The concept of “urban place” has mainly evolved into a marketable and branded good as a result of the advent of numerous design-led place-making policies and practices. In this effort of place-making, aesthetics play a significant role.
Mustapha El Moussaoui
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Globalizations, 2022 This article explores the theory of the subject and of subjectivity in relation to recent debates on the emergence of cities as spaces that are transforming global politics and international relations. Engaging with the contributions to the theory of the subject in the work of Michael Shapiro, Gayatri Spivak, and Jodi Dean, the argument develops an ...
Delacey Tedesco, Matt Davies
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"It's Not Too Aggressive": Key Features of Social Branding Anti-Tobacco Interventions for High-Risk Young Adults. [PDF]
, 2021 Purpose. Peer crowd-targeted campaigns are a novel approach to engage high-risk young adults in tobacco use prevention and cessation. We elicited the perspectives of young adult key informants to understand how and why two social branding interventions ...
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"Darling Look! It’s a Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter examines viewers’ affective encounters with street art and graffiti, with attention to the critical framework provided by Rancière (2004), whose work suggests a method for investigating our aesthetic practices of participation (or exclusion)
Flynn, Danny, Hansen, Susan
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Environmental Heritage and the Ruins of the Future [PDF]
, 2019 We now have good reason to worry that many coastal cities will be flooded by the end of the century. How should we confront this possibility (or inevitability)? What attitudes should we adopt to impending inundation of such magnitude?
Matthes, Erich Hatala
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