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The Aesthetics of Sand: Reclaiming Hong Kong’s Unsettled Grounds

GeoHumanities, 2021
Sand is a key material foundation of modern cities. In Hong Kong, a city founded in British mercantile imperialism, the extraction of sand needed for construction and reclamation projects has always been tied up with violent dispossession.
Julian Brigstocke
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Nooks and Crannies in Visible Cities: 3D Re-imagining Techniques for Archaeology and Architecture in Film

Kwartalnik Filmowy, 2021
With the success of the BBC and PBS series such as Italy’s Invisible Cities (2017), Ancient Invisible Cities (2018), and Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed (2016), made in collaboration with ScanLab and employing LiDAR scanning and 3D imaging techniques ...
Maciej Stasiowski
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New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]

, 2016
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
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River Beaches in Russian Cities: Examples of Soviet Legacy

Heritage, 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, Mergen B. Mamiev, Toyly Hanow, Ilona M. Kashkovskaya, Natalia N. Yashalova, Dmitry A. Ruban   +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)"

Journal 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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Environmental Heritage and the Ruins of the Future [PDF]

, 2019
We now have good reason to worry that many coastal cities will be flooded by the end of the century. How should we confront this possibility (or inevitability)? What attitudes should we adopt to impending inundation of such magnitude?
Matthes, Erich Hatala
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"Darling Look! It’s a Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti [PDF]

, 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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Creating an Art Tourist Space in the Urban Sphere of Lodz – a Theoretical Approach Based on the Example of the Urban Forms Gallery of Murals [PDF]

, 2016
The Urban Forms Gallery of murals in Lodz, Poland, is a “live gallery” of more than 30 large-format paintings made directly on the façades of the buildings. This unique street art exhibition changes the appearance of Lodz’s public space and constitutes a
Mokras-Grabowska, Justyna
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]

, 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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The poiesis of everyday life and space in Yüksel Street [PDF]

, 2019
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Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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