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Exploring eco-aesthetics for urban green infrastructure development and building resilient cities: A theoretical overview

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2018
Eco-aesthetics offers cultural, socio-economic and environmental benefits for building sustainable green infrastructure systems. However, eco-aesthetics in urban green infrastructure is apparently inadequate in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (
Ayisha Ida Haruna   +2 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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Intuitive Cities: Pre-Reflective, Aesthetic and Political Aspects of Urban Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Evidence affirms that aesthetic engagement patterns our movements, often with us barely aware. This invites an examination of pre-reflective engagement within cities and also aesthetic experience as a form of the pre-reflective.
Crippen, Matthew
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‘The City of the Eye’: Urban Aesthetics and Surveillance in the City of Venice [PDF]

open access: yesNew Theatre Quarterly, 2015
Joseph Brodsky’s assertion in Watermark (1992) that Venice ‘is the city of the eye’, providing a sense of security and solace to inhabitants and visitors via the sheer aesthetic force of its surroundings, implicitly raises questions, in the context of the twenty-first-century city, about the performative nature of not only modern-day urban aesthetics ...
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Aesthetics and functions of craft art in public art space

open access: yesHarmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education, 2017
The problem in this research is about how to assess the aesthetics and functions of craft art in Indonesian city public space compare to other cities in other countries.
Alvi Lufiani   +2 more
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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
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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
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Urban greening: environmentalism or marketable aesthetics

open access: yesAIMS Environmental Science, 2015
In recent decades, urban greening has been conceptualized, and subsequently marketed, as a way of making cities more sustainable. Urban greening has been actualized in large global cities, regional centers, and also in many cities in the Global South ...
Dominic Bowd   +2 more
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Urban Landscape in Modern Conditions [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
In ancient times, the city was a closed space, the main function of which was to protect the inhabitants. Cities in the early stages were isolated and autonomous, including economically.
Gabazov Timur
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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
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