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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
Mustapha El Moussaoui
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Aesthetics of Space Organization: Lessons from Traditional European Cities [PDF]
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2018 For centuries the aesthetic significance of space organization has been one of the significant subjects of study for most artists, architects, urban designers and philosophers.
Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia +1 more
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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 during the twentieth century. To and fro refers to the journey into the past and arriving in the present.
Antoni Remesar
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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, Šárka Prokopová
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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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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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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 ...
Branimir Stanić, Darko Vujin
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Budownictwo i Architektura, 2014 Author claims that protection of transport space environment covers all actions which enhance aesthetics of this space and which upgrades its visual properties.
Lidia Żakowska
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A Study of Everyday Aesthetics and (De)Alienation in Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural InquiryThis article is a study of Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities (1974) where it attempts to explore the aestheticization of everyday images that Wenders weaves into the cinematic narrative of the film.
Zakia Kalam
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Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2013 Recently wide process of urbanisation and migration of inhabitants from rural areas to large cities occurs in Latvia. The proportion of green areas in urban territories is decreasing with time, therefore it is important to maintain the existing greenery ...
Maija Jankevica
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