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Les couleurs de Moscou et de Saint-Pétersbourg

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2002
Moscow and Saint Petersburg experienced similar evolutions in colour, but the differences in their plans, urbanity and cultural influences, and their alternating roles as capitals, determined the particularities of their palettes.
Andrey Efimov
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The aesthetics of the city–image

Argument, 2015
In this paper, I will examine the aesthetic implications of the theories which regard the city as an image. Essentially, I will focus on the positions of the two practitioners, Kevin Lynch and Juhani Pallasmaa, who are an urban planner and an architect respectively, in order to confront two very different approaches to the ‘image’; namely, an empirical
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In Defence of Cities: Aesthetics of Engagement in Everyday Environments

, 2020
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Aesthetics of Afro-Andean Smoking Culture: Early Modern Peruvian Tobacco Pipes at the Edge of the Atlantic World

Arts
Although situated at the geographic margin of the early modern Atlantic World, the Pacific coast of Peru was an important region in the development of African diasporic material culture.
Brendan J. M. Weaver, Jerry Smith Solano Calderon, Miguel Ángel Fhon Bazán   +2 more
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Comparative Study of Visual Aesthetics of Urban Space in Golestan and Moradab Neighborhoods of Karaj [PDF]

تحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی
Beauty is among the most sublime human needs. Since the time humans began building cities, they have paid attention to the sense of aesthetics. The purpose of this research is to conduct a comparative evaluation of two neighborhoods, Golestan and Moradab,
habib fasihi, mina heydari
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The aesthetics of the city-image

, 2020
In this paper, I will examine the aesthetic implications of the theories which regard the city as an image. Essentially, I will focus on the positions of the two practitioners, Kevin Lynch and Juhani Pallasmaa, who are an urban planner and an architect respectively, in order to confront two very different approaches to the ‘image’; namely, an empirical
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Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city

Urban Studies
Aesthetics, generally understood as an intensified emphasis on the sensorial look and feel of urban environments, has become an important perspective through which urban scholarship is examining the economic, social, political and cultural processes of urban regeneration projects across the globe.
Monica Degen, Gillian Rose
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Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
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Analysis of spatial characteristics and influencing factors of the flow network of highly educated talents from national and local perspective

Scientific Reports
Based on dynamic monitoring data on China’s population, by using complex networks, spatial analysis and mathematical measurement, this study reveals the spatial characteristics and influencing factors of the network of flows of highly educated talents in
Wentian Shi, Wenlong Yang, Xueying Mu, Fan Yang   +3 more
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Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation

Findings
In the postwar United States, cities used downzoning policies to limit construction, often for the sake of preserving neighborhood aesthetics and protecting property values.
Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel
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