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Cities in fiction: Perambulations with John Berger [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores selected novels by John Berger in which cities play a central role. These cities are places, partially real and partially imagined, where memory, hope, and despair intersect.
Badiou A. +40 more
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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 +38 more
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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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Creating an Art Tourist Space in the Urban Sphere of Lodz – a Theoretical Approach Based on the Example of the Urban Forms Gallery of Murals [PDF]
, 2016 The Urban Forms Gallery of murals in Lodz, Poland, is a “live gallery” of more than 30 large-format paintings made directly on the façades of the buildings. This unique street art exhibition changes the appearance of Lodz’s public space and constitutes a
Mokras-Grabowska, Justyna
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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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Portraying the global financial crisis: Myth, aesthetics, and the city [PDF]
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, 2012 From 2007 until today an intricate set of events has been unsettling the global financial markets. The naming of these incidents has been multifold, varying between a general rhetoric of economic downturn (‘crash’, ‘crunch’, ‘meltdown’, ‘hangover’) and more descriptive terminologies indicating the reasons, geographic involvements, and historic time ...
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Ethico-aesthetic paradigms and the color environment of the city
проект байкал, 2022 The problem of the color environment of the city, its formation and impact on citizens attracts close attention of architects and urban planners. Number of attempts were made to create a workable theory of urban coloring. The article proposes an ontological approach that links the characteristics of the color environment of the city with the general ...
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Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]
, 2016 Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
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Landscape Review, 2017 The increase in urban population has required cities to rethink their strategies for minimising greenhouse gas impacts and adapting to climate change. While urban design and planning policy have been guided by principles such as walkability (to reduce ...
Silvia Tavares, Simon Swaffield
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