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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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Vacuum Infusion as a Processing Route for Transparent Wood Laminates

Polymer Composites, EarlyView.
Schematic representation of the fabrication route for transparent wood laminates, including wood veneer delignification, epoxy resin impregnation by vacuum infusion processing, and the final TW‐1 transparent wood laminate. ABSTRACT Transparent wood (TW) has attracted increasing attention as a bio‐based material for daylighting and building‐envelope ...
Letícia Zimermann Pires, Ohayna Lisboa Santos, Wagner Müller Ferreira, Darci Alberto Gatto, Sandro Campos Amico, Mayara Elita Braz Carneiro, Pedro Henrique Gonzalez de Cademartori, Andrey Pereira Acosta   +7 more
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A Study of Everyday Aesthetics and (De)Alienation in Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
This article is a study of Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities (1974) where it attempts to explore the aestheticization of everyday images that Wenders weaves into the cinematic narrative of the film.
Zakia Kalam
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The possibility to reconcile the conflict between the preservation of synanthropic vegetation and the development of cities

Acta Agrobotanica, 2012
The impoverishment of synanthropic vegetation has been observed in Polish cities for at least half a century. It relates to both the decrease in the area of its occurrence and reduction in species diversity.
Ewa Trzaskowska
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu, Pei‐yan Wang, Ya‐nan Li, Nan Hu, Yun‐yuan Li   +4 more
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Planting for healthy air: Urban biodiversity enhances natural chemical environments

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities urgently need nature to improve public health, support biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change. Yet not all green spaces offer the same benefits. In this study, we show that more diverse urban plantings create richer “chemical environments”; subtle, naturally scented atmospheres formed by plant emissions that can influence how ...
Aurora Ruggeri, Fethi Ben Fraj, Gaetan Glauser, Gregory Röder, Ola Söderström, Sergio Rasmann   +5 more
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Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella, Sebastian R. Ruile, Ariel Bergamini, Gala Mona Louise Dädlow, Vivien Grothe, Bertrand Fournier, Kilian Perrelet, Marco Moretti   +7 more
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Increased utilitarian value of invasive species in regions with long invasion history may limit public engagement for invasion control

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Positive perceptions of invasive species can hinder effective management, especially if management efforts that are rooted in scientific theories are misaligned with local ecological knowledge. We documented local ecological knowledge about land invasibility as predicted by invasion biology theories. Participants with greater local ecological knowledge
Laurel Mael Philpott, Orou G. Gaoue
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Aesthetics of bridging solutions of Santiago Calatrava

Budownictwo i Architektura, 2016
Bridges and viaducts are not only engineering solutions, ensuring the possibility to overcome obstacles and communication – they are also a spatial elements, visible in the city landscape.
Jan Wrana
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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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