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Aesthetics of bridging solutions of Santiago Calatrava
Budownictwo i Architektura, 2016 Bridges and viaducts are not only engineering solutions, ensuring the possibility to overcome obstacles and communication – they are also a spatial elements, visible in the city landscape.
Jan Wrana
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Walkable Gettysburg— How Pedestrian Friendly is the Borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
, 2014 Walkability is a measure of how easily pedestrians can reach a variety of destinations via walking. Greater walkability has been linked to several benefits, including improvements in human health, economic stimulus, and improved air quality.
Gilvarg, Samuel C., Kesnig, Shane A.
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Tree-squares in Anatolia : what does an emergent public space mean? [PDF]
, 2015 Urban places, besides their physical characteristics, are regarded as grounds where personal or collective meanings are created and accumulated. An individual can capture the meaning of a place, or create new meanings by relying on his/her own feelings ...
Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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Designing Urban Green Spaces for Older Adults in Asian Cities
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Elderly populations in Asian countries are expected to increase rapidly in the next few decades. Older adults, particularly in high-density cities, spend a considerable amount of time in urban green spaces (UGSs). The World Health Organization noted that
Zheng Tan +4 more
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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Landscape Review, 2017 The increase in urban population has required cities to rethink their strategies for minimising greenhouse gas impacts and adapting to climate change. While urban design and planning policy have been guided by principles such as walkability (to reduce ...
Silvia Tavares, Simon Swaffield
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The city as a construction site — a visual record of a multisensory experience [PDF]
, 2015 In this article, I consider the reception of images that are present in a city space. I focus on the juxtaposition of computer‑generated images covering fences surrounding construction sites and the real spaces which they screen from view.
MICHAŁOWSKA, Marianna
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The neighbourhood physical environment and active travel in older adults : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Perceived and objectively-assessed aspects of the neighbourhood physical environment have been postulated to be key contributors to regular engagement in active travel (AT) in older adults.
Andrea Nathan +5 more
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The Aesthetics of City Strolling
Contemporary Aesthetics, 2013 This paper concentrates on an eminently urban phenomenon, with the accent on urban. The phenomenon in question plays an important role in theories of modern urban culture. City strolling refers to the way we move along while walking through the city. City strolling often is understood exclusively under the hegemony of an optical regime, but this is one-
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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