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River Beaches in Russian Cities: Examples of Soviet Legacy

open access: yesHeritage, 2022
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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"Collaboration with art institutions as a strategy to raise the aesthetics aspects in the state housing projects (A case study of Dar Misr housing compound Murals Alshorouk city)"

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
Design Abstract: In this Era we can feel how far the economic factors quite dominate largely in the field of urban design, which led to the gradual disappearance of urbanization aesthetics.
Heba Allah Zohny
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses ...
Stępień, Justyna
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Teaching Design Model of Bridge Aesthetics Course Facing Ecological Landscape Sustainable Development

open access: yesSustainability, 2023
In recent years, ecological building of bridges has gradually begun to appear in cities, and this trend is conducive to the sustainable development of urban bridges and an ecological environment, promoting the development of emerging industries around ...
Fenghui Dong   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Santa with a Butt Plug:Paul McCarthy and the Obliterating Violence of Positivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Kitsch is often seen as the denial of shit. Kitsch excludes from view everything that is unacceptable in human existence. In Paul McCarthy’s oeuvre, there is no such dichotomy.
Lushetich, Natasha
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"Darling Look! It’s a Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter examines viewers’ affective encounters with street art and graffiti, with attention to the critical framework provided by Rancière (2004), whose work suggests a method for investigating our aesthetic practices of participation (or exclusion)
Flynn, Danny, Hansen, Susan
core   +1 more source

Urban design factors involved in the aesthetic assessment of newly built environments and their incorporation into legislation: The case of Istanbul [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2018
Newly built environments in cities whose features have changed due to neoliberal policies and priorities have often been criticized for their lack of aesthetic qualities.
Azadeh Rezafar, Sevkiye Sence Turk
doaj   +1 more source

Urban encounters: juxtapositions of difference and the communicative interface of global cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods.
Amin, A.   +12 more
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La "ville décor" : accueil de tournages de films et mise en place d'une nouvelle esthétique urbaine

open access: yesCybergeo, 1999
Since the beginning of the 90s, different French cities and regions have been organised to host film shooting teams. In a way to help them to choose the different film settings, the city is "cut" by the local authorities into "selected pieces", presented
Maria Gravari-Barbas
doaj   +1 more source

Glitch epistemologies for computational cities

open access: yesDialogues in Human Geography, 2022
This intervention advances glitches as epistemological vectors for apprehending and engaging the significance of digitally-mediated spatialities that appear nonperformative against normative scripts of urban computational paradigms.
Agnieszka Leszczynski, S. Elwood
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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