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The return of aesthetics to city planning
Society, 1988I n Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion noted that town planning, as he called it, was the last department of architecture to take form in any period. Baroque planning, for example, with its emphasis on ceremonial promenades, central focal points, and axial perspectives, remained dominant during the nineteenth century, long after ...
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Aesthetic Considerations in City Construction
Journal of the Urban Planning and Development Division, 1965The members of the various professions engaged in the planning, designing, and building of American communities must demonstrate greater awareness of the visual result and the over-all aesthetic appearance of a community. Such increased attention is necessary if a civilization is to be developed that will truly meet the needs of its citizens today and ...
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METHODOLOGY FOR THE AESTHETIC DESIGN OF A CITY-CAR BODY
2004The aim of this work is to indicate a methodology of “design for aesthetics”, through the realization of a particular city-car body. We had to realize a good looking car, without forgetting the importance of mechanical and economical aspects. The result we have got is very interesting, in fact the city-car obtained is a sum of beauty, economics and ...
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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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Sociology, Aesthetics & The City
2011The book is examining the fruitful, though admittedly unusual, relationship between sociology, aesthetics and the “urban dimension”. Sociology should accept the challenge that comes from the current “epistemological insecurity” of the postmodern age and try to re-think itself as a form of knowledge. In this sense — as has always happened in the history
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The Aesthetics of the Antique City
2013The beauty of what is old in its various forms both as images and handmade works of architecture and materials, stems from a profound and remote way of experiencing life, things and nature.
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2016
This chapter discusses the multidisciplinary project Autoconstrucción by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, which relates the story of his childhood through the self-build construction of his family home on the volcanic lands of the Pedregales de Coyoacan outside Mexico City.
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This chapter discusses the multidisciplinary project Autoconstrucción by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, which relates the story of his childhood through the self-build construction of his family home on the volcanic lands of the Pedregales de Coyoacan outside Mexico City.
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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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