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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

"Function or Imagination of the City? A Comparison of Ideas of Art and Society in Architecture and Urbanism"

, 2011
of the BOOK: The book is examining the fruitful, though admittedly unusual, relationship between sociology, aesthetics and the “urban dimension”. Sociology should accept the challenge that comes from the current “epistemological insecurity” of the ...
Claudia Portioli
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha, Anna Edwards, Alison Young, Michele Acuto   +3 more
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An Aesthetic Reading of Narrative Elements and Their Impact on Al-Jawahiri\'s Prose [In Arabic]

زبان کاوی کاربردی
Mohammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, the Iraqi poet, is considered one of the most prominent poets of the twentieth century, and many studies have been written about his poetry. However, less attention has been given to his prose.
Hasan Meghyasi, Riad Manshad Nazzal
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
wiley   +1 more source

The ethics and aesthetics of allotment gardens

, 2011
Since the ‘70s of the twentieth century, with the contribution of Rosario Assunto, landscape becomes a comprehensive and inclusive concept, in which is inherent the experience of the space.
Matos, Rute Sousa
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New-type urbanization and the aesthetics of Jiangnan towns

Urban aesthetics is an interdisciplinary science between aesthetics and urban studies. Its emergence is both the result of aesthetics transitioning from theory to practice and the inevitable reflection in the field of aesthetic research of the modern ...
Zhou, Jianming, Ella, Elizabeth, Kang, Da-eun   +2 more
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