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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
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

From mammoth to miniature: ‘Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts’ as a narrative object Du mammouth à la miniature : La maquette de camp d’été des Yakoutes comme objet de narration

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj  

For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado, Francisco Martínez, Eeva Berglund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

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
openaire   +3 more sources