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The aesthetics of the city-image [PDF]
In this paper, I will examine the aesthetic implications of the theories which regard the city as an image. Essentially, I will focus on the positions of the two practitioners, Kevin Lynch and Juhani Pallasmaa, who are an urban planner and an architect respectively, in order to confront two very different approaches to the ‘image’; namely, an empirical
Popczyk, Maria
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Urban Environmental Aesthetic and Identity: The Case of Masouleh, Iran
Urban environmental aesthetics and place identity have begun to take their place on the design and planning agenda, especially in recent years. Urbanization resulting from competition between cities has caused the loss of identity and aesthetics in ...
Azadeh Rezafar
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This article explores the theory of the subject and of subjectivity in relation to recent debates on the emergence of cities as spaces that are transforming global politics and international relations. Engaging with the contributions to the theory of the subject in the work of Michael Shapiro, Gayatri Spivak, and Jodi Dean, the argument develops an ...
Delacey Tedesco, Matt Davies
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Urban Development and Cosmetic Applications In Tourism: Proposals for Turkey
Towards the end of the twentieth century, through the effect of globalization, cities experienced a great change. The distorted construction that emerged as a result of population growth has led to the disappearance of the aesthetic understanding and ...
Hüseyin Pamukçu, Gürkan Çalışkan
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"It's Not Too Aggressive": Key Features of Social Branding Anti-Tobacco Interventions for High-Risk Young Adults. [PDF]
Purpose. Peer crowd-targeted campaigns are a novel approach to engage high-risk young adults in tobacco use prevention and cessation. We elicited the perspectives of young adult key informants to understand how and why two social branding interventions ...
Ling, Pamela M+2 more
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The Aestheticisation of Governance in India: The Appeal of Urban Aesthetics in Microfinance
Financial processes are aestheticised both spatially and in embodied modes, as urban spaces such as New Delhi change and become ‘world-class’ in response to finance and give rise to new internal urban hierarchies and figurations of the ‘ideal ...
Tanushree Kaushal
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Tehran: Confrontation with Aesthetics?s [PDF]
The importance of the “beautiful” goes even before the 5th century BC, when Plato suggests a difference between rational and logical facts, Noêta and the good, the sensitive, and the perceptible fact, Aisthèta.
Maryam Mansouri
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With the success of the BBC and PBS series such as Italy’s Invisible Cities (2017), Ancient Invisible Cities (2018), and Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed (2016), made in collaboration with ScanLab and employing LiDAR scanning and 3D imaging techniques ...
Maciej Stasiowski
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User satisfaction with aesthetics of urban park seating [PDF]
Urban parks are considered among the most important areas of public space for re-laxation and recreation. They are gaining ever more importance in our cities with their continuous physical, social and cultural development.
Abdurrahman Mohamed
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River Beaches in Russian Cities: Examples of Soviet Legacy
The diversity of urban heritage is determined by some national peculiarities of the development of cities and towns. In Russia, river beaches are common recreational elements of urban environments. Representative examples of such beaches from two cities,
Anna V. Mikhailenko+5 more
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