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Conceptual design: practical meanings and social contexts

open access: yes, 2010
Middleton, Sarah   +1 more
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Sociology, Aesthetics & The City

open access: yes, 2011
The 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
Mele, Vincenzo   +13 more
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AESTHETICS OF NORTH CITY

Technical Aesthetics and Design Research, 2020
During the historical period of industrial development of North, the question of a necessity of city construction in the North is relevant. On the one hand, cities allow formation the sociocultural infrastructure, providing comfortable accommodation as well as formation the conditions for the stable development of the region (vs.
S. Prokopova, I. Myasnikova
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The city as an aesthetic space

City, 2019
This paper uses the relational space paradigm to bridge some gaps between the field of aesthetics and the field of urban studies. By introducing the concept of aesthetic space, I analyze a particular sort of direct lived experience through which memories of the past, latent reality and the actualized perceived present are conjured together, informing ...
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From the Big Mac and Ikea society to the environmental aesthetics, smart cities and storytelling architecture [PDF]

open access: yesSAJ Serbian Architectural Journal, 2019
Our global society is encountering different challenges of the twenty first century. Our cities are in the process of constant transformation influenced by urbanisation, globalisation, advanced technologies, environmental and ecological changes, social ...
Kuletin Ćulafić, Irena
exaly   +1 more source

Of Fictional Cities and “Diasporic” Aesthetics

Antipode, 2003
This essay considers the work of social reproduction as it unfolds within the cultural realm in both national and diasporic contexts. Beginning with a discussion of the creation of Malgudi—the quintessential Indian hometown created in the 1930s by one of India's most venerated writers, R K Narayan—I go on to argue that in the preindependence days, this
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The return of aesthetics to city planning

Society, 1988
I 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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METHODOLOGY FOR THE AESTHETIC DESIGN OF A CITY-CAR BODY

2004
The 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 ...
FRIZZIERO, LEONARDO   +4 more
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