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Urban greening: environmentalism or marketable aesthetics

AIMS 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, Campbell McKay, Wendy S. Shaw   +2 more
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Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context

, 2020
While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and political efficacy.
M. Nielsen, J. Sumich, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen   +2 more
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The Impact of User Aesthetics on UI Design: Exploring Design Preferences in China's Sinking Markets vs. Tier 1 and Tier 2 Cities

International Journal of Education and Humanities
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the aesthetics of users in China's sinking - market and those in first - and second - tier cities on UI design.
Qin Yuan
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Aesthetic gene and prospect of garden city from the perspective of Chinese dream [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences
This study aims to delve into the impact of the Chinese Dream ideology on the development and aesthetic characteristics of park cities. Building upon their dialectical and unified relationship, it seeks to predict the evolutionary trajectory of urban ...
Liu Mengxuan, Chen Siquan, An Xu
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Waste valuing from urban wood management through design. Ideas from the case of Sãn Paulo

Agathón, 2019
As cities grow, urban afforestation becomes more important both for aesthetics and environmental reasons. Nevertheless, pruning and removal of fallen trees, demand a waste management system, not easy to deal with, especially in big tropical cities, such ...
Cyntia Malaguti de Sousa
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Is Your Neighborhood Designed to Support Physical Activity? A Brief Streetscape Audit Tool. [PDF]

, 2015
INTRODUCTION:Macro level built environment factors (eg, street connectivity, walkability) are correlated with physical activity. Less studied but more modifiable microscale elements of the environment (eg, crosswalks) may also affect physical activity ...
Cain, Kelli L, Conway, Terry L, Frank, Lawrence D, Gavand, Kavita A, Geremia, Carrie M, Glanz, Karen, King, Abby C, Millstein, Rachel A, Saelens, Brian E, Sallis, James F   +9 more
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‘The City of the Eye’: Urban Aesthetics and Surveillance in the City of Venice [PDF]

New 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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Who participates in local government? Evidence from meeting minutes [PDF]

, 2018
Scholars and policymakers have highlighted institutions that enable community participation as a potential buffer against existing political inequalities.
Abramowitz, Barro, Berry, Burden, Campbell, Capps, Dahl, David M. Glick, Fiorina, Fischel, Fung, Gilens, Glaeser, Glaeser, Glaeser, Gutmann, Hajnal, Hankinson, Hankinson, Jacobus, Jannene, Jannene, Kain, Katherine Levine Einstein, Kittilson, Logan, Mansbridge, Maxwell Palmer, Oliver, Paul, Quigley, Rae, Rothstein, Schleicher, Schlozman, Semuels, Tausanovitch, Tighe, Yglesias   +38 more
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Les murs parlent de nous. Esthétique politique des singularités quelconques

Cahiers de Narratologie, 2016
The graphic interventions on the walls of cities should be read as statements in situations. Political aesthetics of riots and insurrections of 2011 or localized urban statement of dissent, these pictures contemporaneously articulate singular and common,
Alain Bertho
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Review of Sustainable: Living Walls

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
According to a United Nations forecast seventy percent of the world population will be living in cities by 2050 (UNFPA 2007).This is due to the huge transferring that continuing to profound from the vegetated and rural areas to the modern cities, which ...
Abdel Moniem Moawad, Nahla Elgeneady, Nesma Al-Attar   +2 more
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