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The Aesthetic Experience of Traffic in the Modern City
Urban Studies, 2003In spite of the ubiquity of the motor vehicle in modern cities, there has been relatively little study of its impact on our experience of urban life. After summarising the most significant objectively visible impacts of the motor vehicle on urban form, this article offers a phenomenological analysis and account of our aesthetic experience of road ...
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Gentrification and the an/aesthetics of digital spatial capital in Canadian “platform cities”
The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 2021Agnieszka Leszczynski, V. Kong
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Whistling, Gender, and the Aesthetic Turn in Mexico City
Latin American Music Review, 2021Abstract Among certain communities of rural Mexico, whistles are used to mimic the melody of spoken words in order to facilitate long-distance communication.
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The aesthetics of city‐scale preservation policy in Beijing
Planning Perspectives, 2007Chinese cities today represent a historically important case of the relation between city-scale preservation policy and urban design, and the role they play in the rapid transformation of urban environments. This article reviews Beijing's preservation and urban design policies as they existed in 1990, and as they evolved and responded over the ...
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Aesthetic Problems of Environmental Design
The 21st century is a time of active urbanization: the development and enlargement of cities that change the lives of their inhabitants. To a large extent, the socio-cultural transformations of the modern city are associated with the practices of urban ...
I. Lisovetc
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The 21st century is a time of active urbanization: the development and enlargement of cities that change the lives of their inhabitants. To a large extent, the socio-cultural transformations of the modern city are associated with the practices of urban ...
I. Lisovetc
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Planning Green Infrastructure: Provisions and Alteration in Prominent Cities of Nigeria
International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering Management & Applied Science: Green infrastructure provides physical aesthetics, healthier and quality environment for urban settlements globe. However, many urban centres in the third world countries are deprived the benefits of green infrastructure and subjected to unhealthy ...
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Distant Cities: Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Urbanism
2012The city does not exist. The city is a fiction, an abstraction rooted in history and mythology. For how can we identify it? However it is identified or defined, the city is an environment of experience before it is anything else. Urban experience, in fact, is perhaps one of the most important and powerful of the complex dimensions that constitute ...
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Analysis of the Importance of Environmental Art Design in Smart Cities
Journal of Social Science Humanities and LiteratureUrbanization is reshaping the world, with more than half of the global population now living in cities. However, this rapid urban expansion places significant strain on natural resources and the environment, necessitating sustainable urban development ...
Dong Bian
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Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
, 2011Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China, by Robin Visser. Durham: Duke University, 2010. ? + 362 pp. US$89.95 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback).
M. Marinelli
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