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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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Measuring tourists’ visual perception of gardens around Taihu Lake Rim area based on multi-source data

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
Tourists’ visual preferences are of paramount importance for the local garden environment assessment. However, the diversity of garden elements presents challenges in achieving uniform assessments.
Wenjie Liu, Rouran Zhang, Huan Li
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On Microclimatic Islands. The Garden as a Place of Intensified Thermal Experience

Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2019
Gardens have always been appreciated as places of particular microclimatic qualities. Seen within the broader context of Enlightenment, gardens can be conceived as places of intensified thermal experience and as man-made concentrations of climate. In the
Sascha Roesler
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Navigating across individual and deliberative values: A dual Q‐method approach to elicit diverse values in grassland restoration

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The current ‘UN Decade on Restoration’ calls for collaboration between scientists and practitioners to formulate guidelines for ecosystem restoration, within which transdisciplinary approaches are imperative to rethink the diverse values associated with nature, paving the way for sustainable ecosystem restoration.
Miguel A. Cebrián‐Piqueras, Konrad Gray, Lukas Kuhn, Jacqueline Loos, Ioana A. Pătru‐Dușe, Maraja Riechers, Vicky Temperton, Berta Martín‐López   +7 more
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„Miasto nigdy się nie kończy…”. Mroczne oblicze miasta w prozie Herty Müller

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia
One of the recurring motifs in Herta Müllerʼs work is the experience of the city, which often becomes a space of threat, violence, uncertainty, and finally repression and death.
Estera Głuszko-Boczoń
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Aesthetics in Building The New Capital City of Indonesia: (Lesson learned from Jakarta which is 1000 years old) [PDF]

, 2023
Farmawati Malik
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The poiesis of everyday life and space in Yüksel Street [PDF]

, 2019
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Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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Enabling effective urban green space stewardship through planning: A qualitative comparative analysis in Southwest England

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid increasing urbanisation and biodiversity decline, ‘effective stewardship’ of urban green space (UGS) is a complex but critical nature‐based solution for long‐term environmental, social and economic gain. Combining stewardship and sense‐of‐place frameworks with European nature‐based solutions guidance, we investigate which social and ...
Fay Kahane, Melissa Ralph, Rosalind F. Shaw   +2 more
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Urban greening for low carbon cities—introduction to the special issue

AIMS Environmental Science, 2016
As a measure to counteract the effects of urban sprawl, with the continued growth of cities worldwide, different modes of urban greening are being increasingly recognized.
Mary Thornbush
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The aesthetic of sustainability: systemic thinking in the evolution of cities [PDF]

WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, 2014
Sustainability, while being definitely a new form of humanity, as it has been proposed and dealt with in many urban and landscape projects, lacks often of an essential characteristic of the anthropic space: seduction. The authors believe that sustainability has to find its own power of seduction if it is to compete successfully with the ambiguous but ...
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