‘The City of the Eye’: Urban Aesthetics and Surveillance in the City of Venice [PDF]
New Theatre Quarterly, 2015 Joseph Brodsky’s assertion in Watermark (1992) that Venice ‘is the city of the eye’, providing a sense of security and solace to inhabitants and visitors via the sheer aesthetic force of its surroundings, implicitly raises questions, in the context of the twenty-first-century city, about the performative nature of not only modern-day urban aesthetics ...
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]
, 2016 The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses ...
Stępień, Justyna
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Creating an Art Tourist Space in the Urban Sphere of Lodz – a Theoretical Approach Based on the Example of the Urban Forms Gallery of Murals [PDF]
, 2016 The Urban Forms Gallery of murals in Lodz, Poland, is a “live gallery” of more than 30 large-format paintings made directly on the façades of the buildings. This unique street art exhibition changes the appearance of Lodz’s public space and constitutes a
Mokras-Grabowska, Justyna
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Who participates in local government? Evidence from meeting minutes [PDF]
, 2018 Scholars and policymakers have highlighted institutions that enable community participation as a potential buffer against existing political inequalities.
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Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque: ethics, aesthetics and garden design in Belgium (1913-1940) [PDF]
, 2012 Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque (The New Picturesque Garden) association was founded in 1913 to ‘renew and popularize garden art’ in Belgium. Originally, the emancipation of the lower classes was put forward as an important task; the association acted as a
Notteboom, Bruno
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A Scalable, Durable, Fire‐Safe All‐Day Passive Radiative Cooling Coating for Sustainable Buildings
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study reports a scalable, durable coating that combines a fire‑retardant copolymer adhesive, hollow glass microspheres, and boron oxide to achieve passive radiative cooling with over 94% solar reflectance and >95% mid‑infrared emissivity. The coating maintains performance after UV and rain exposure and exhibits UL‑94 V‑0 fire resistance, enabling ...
Zhewen Ma +8 more
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Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]
, 2016 Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
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Recent Advances in Wide‐Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Ubiquitous defects predominately account for photo‐instability and open‐circuit voltage losses in wide‐bandgap perovskite solar cells (WBG PSCs). This review comprehensively presents the underlying impact mechanisms, summarizes the advanced optimization strategies across various functional layers and their interfaces to develop efficient and stable WBG
Jianjun Mei, Feng Yan
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Garden as Symbol: Nature/City [PDF]
, 2013 My approach .to environmental aesthetics here begins with reflections on previous encounters with the subject, focusing initially on aesthetics of the city.
Carter, Curtis
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The poiesis of everyday life and space in Yüksel Street [PDF]
, 2019 A
Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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