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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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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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Beyond aesthetics:

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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The aesthetics of city‐scale preservation policy in Beijing

Planning Perspectives, 2007
Chinese 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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Distant Cities: Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Urbanism

2012
The 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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