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In Defence of Cities: Aesthetics of Engagement in Everyday Environments
2020What aesthetic qualities do we find restorative in our environments? I explore this in the context of staycations, favourite places, nature, urban environments, and the ideal or optimal environment. The data was sourced from social media and print media; a qualitative survey (N=308); and via a literature review.
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Nature in the city: Horace Cleveland's aesthetic
Landscape and Urban Planning, 1993Abstract Horace Cleveland, a Nineteenth Century landscape architect, conceived of the city as a work of art. The development of Cleveland's aesthetic can be traced directly to ideas about the American landscape that were explored in significant works of American literature. Cleveland was influenced by the writing of Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth
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The Aesthetic Experience of Traffic in the Modern City
Urban Studies, 2003In spite of the ubiquity of the motor vehicle in modern cities, there has been relatively little study of its impact on our experience of urban life. After summarising the most significant objectively visible impacts of the motor vehicle on urban form, this article offers a phenomenological analysis and account of our aesthetic experience of road ...
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Whistling, Gender, and the Aesthetic Turn in Mexico City
Latin American Music Review, 2021Abstract Among certain communities of rural Mexico, whistles are used to mimic the melody of spoken words in order to facilitate long-distance communication.
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The aesthetics of city‐scale preservation policy in Beijing
Planning Perspectives, 2007Chinese 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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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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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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Mapping City Crime and the New Aesthetic of Danger
Journal of Visual Culture, 2009This article investigates the recent proliferation of crime-mapping software applications provided by police departments in dozens of US cities. In these maps, urban space is rendered according to prevailing notions of criminality, constructing a landscape of danger that borrows from and contributes to the wider visual culture of crime.
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New Urban Aesthetics and Historic City
The following text aims to place alongside a historical prospection on the character and development of urban phenomena in the historical city an aesthetic perspective on their sensory, imaginative and productive impact of new forms of experience. In order to reach that goal, it sketches some themes on which to focus the aesthetic reading of urban ...openaire +2 more sources
Appearances that matter: Aesthetic practices in the city
City & Society, 2020Julia Yezbick, Christa Ballard Tooley
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The Museum as the City's Aesthetic Conscience
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1968Claus Virch +2 more
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