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The Influence of Globalization on Distracting Traditional Aesthetic Values in Old Town of Erbil
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2021 Aesthetics as a discipline was originally part of philosophy and cosmology, primarily it was used to create a holistic picture of the world. Throughout history, subject and tasks of aesthetics as a discipline have been changing in different historical ...
Zhino Hariry
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Places in placelessness — notes on the aesthetic and the strategies of place–making [PDF]
, 2015 The paper discusses the aesthetic aspects of place‑making practices in the urban environment of Western metropoles that are struggling with the progressive undifferentiation of their space and the weakening of communal and personal bonds.
Korusiewicz, Maria
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Designing and evaluating mobile multimedia user experiences in public urban places: Making sense of the field [PDF]
, 2012 The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities (United Nations, 2008) resulting in an urban densification requiring people to live in closer proximity and share urban infrastructure such as streets, public transport, and parks within cities ...
Foth, Marcus +2 more
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Preserving city color plan, surveying Iranian submontane cities [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2015 No Considering color pallet of the buildings of every city, arouse a debate related to identity and aesthetics of urban environment. This debate is succeeded by researches about the color of cities, from limited hues of traditional city to numerous ...
Preserving city color plan, surveying Iranian submontane cities
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Aesthetic Engagement in the City
Contemporary Aesthetics, 2013 This article aims at showing how environmental aesthetics relates to the common environment, the ordinary environment that we discuss, share, and live in. Aesthetics has primarily been understood in relation to art and art history, but it has now been emancipated from this framework of interpretation.
Blanc, Nathalie, Rosen, Miriam
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Urban encounters: juxtapositions of difference and the communicative interface of global cities [PDF]
, 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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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2021 Background Urban parks are critical environmental resources in which adolescents engage in physical activity (PA). Evidence on the associations between park environmental characteristics and park-based PA in adolescents is mixed, particularly for high ...
Ru Zhang +5 more
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iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2023 To understand the health and ecological benefits of scenic recreational forests, we elucidated their spatial distribution characteristics, which can be used to create guidelines and reveal strategic issues regarding the spatial distribution of tree ...
Zhao Q, Zhang C, Hu R, Qian W, Wei Y
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The aesthetic of sustainability: systemic thinking in the evolution of cities [PDF]
WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, 2014 Sustainability, while being definitely a new form of humanity, as it has been proposed and dealt with in many urban and landscape projects, lacks often of an essential characteristic of the anthropic space: seduction. The authors believe that sustainability has to find its own power of seduction if it is to compete successfully with the ambiguous but ...
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Garden as Symbol: Nature/City [PDF]
, 2013 My approach .to environmental aesthetics here begins with reflections on previous encounters with the subject, focusing initially on aesthetics of the city.
Carter, Curtis
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