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Materialisation of existential aesthetics
, 2023 Maes’ proposal on existential aesthetics, which appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism in 2022, has the potential to be extended in myriad manners. Here, the attempt is to confer a material or tangible extension to his proposal. Material
Khetrapal, Neha
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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
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Aesthetics in urban space: architecture and art for sustainable cities [PDF]
, 2014 Addressing the problem of aesthetics in urban space nowadays implies dealing with new models of cities, in which sustainable development, regeneration, requalification and urban reuse become indispensable. The reuse of the city, in regions concerned with
VERDI, LAURA
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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The future of Asian and Pacific cities 2023 : crisis resilient urban futures
, 2023 The lead authors of the report chapters were as follows: Shocks in the city: multiple interlinked crises test sustainable urban development: Omar Siddique, Sustainable Urban Development Section, ESCAP Urban and territorial planning for resilient and ...
UN.ESCAP +1 more
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VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
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Learning from cities with typical mobility: insights from cities with typical transport profiles in England and Germany [PDF]
Transport research often focuses on case studies of cities that are in some way exceptional in terms of their commitment to and investment in sustainable transport (public transport, walking and cycling) and the patterns of travel of their residents ...
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Inequality and rising levels of socio-economic segregation : lessons from a pan-European comparative study [PDF]
, 2015 The research leading to these results has received funding from the Estonian Research Council (Institutional Research Grant IUT no. 2–17 on Spatial Population Mobility and Geographical Changes in Urban Regions); the European Research Council under the ...
Musterd, Sako +3 more
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What (if any) aesthetics of everyday experience should we have? [PDF]
In this paper, I will show that an aesthetics of everyday experience independent of our analyses of art is absolutely essential. While the aims of discourse about art may be normative, the aims of discourse about everyday aesthetic experience are very ...
Black, Angela
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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