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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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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., Appadurai, A., Beck, U., Benjamin, W., Derrida, J., Eade, J., Georgiou, M., Georgiou, M., Massey, D., Miller, T., Myria Georgiou, Robins, K., Urry, J.   +12 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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The political aesthetic of the British city‐state: Class formation through the global city [PDF]

Constellations, 2018
A critical analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of social relations in the British state.
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Multimodal Strategy for Efficient Semi‐Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules with Record Indoor Performance

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
A multimodal strategy creates efficient semi‐transparent perovskite solar cells with a record 4.29% light utilization efficiency and 22.41% indoor performance. This approach enables the first scalable 30 x 30 cm2 semi‐transparent solar module, highlighting its potential for building‐integrated and indoor photovoltaics.
Siming Huang, Shanyue Hou, Yuting Wang, Yinheng Ren, Yujie Wo, Jingdong Xu, Jinzhao Qin, Galyam Sanfo, Zahra Albu, Kai Qiu, Himal Muwanwella, Iona Hill, Yuelong Huang, Rebecca L. Milot, Xiang Liu, Muhammad Tariq Sajjad, Mojtaba Abdi‐Jalebi   +16 more
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Living with Urban Everyday Technologies

ESPES, 2020
New and complex technologies are exceedingly present and in widespread use in contemporary cities globally. The urban lifeworld is saturated with various applications of information and computing technologies, but also more rudimentary forms of ...
Sanna Lehtinen
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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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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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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn, Ariana P. Torres, Sue Barton, Bridget K. Behe   +3 more
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Claiming the wall: How memorial plaques reshape urban landscapes in Russia

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia
This article explores the significance of memorial plaques in Russian cities as sites of history, memory and aesthetics that create a new sensorium of the urban sphere.
Kiun Hwang
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