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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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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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Heritage, gentrification, participation : remaking urban landscapes in the name of culture and historic preservation : introduction [PDF]
, 2019 This special issue explores the relationship between heritagization, shifting economies, and urban struggles in different cities around the globe. Our aim is to examine the conditions that have brought history, culture, an old/new urban aesthetics, real ...
De Cesari, Chiara, Dimova, Rozita
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Aesthetic, Somatic and Somaesthetic Experience of the City
The Journal of Somaesthetics, 2023 The paper will deal with the notion of the experience (as a crucial term of aesthetic theory) of the city, especially the aesthetic, somatic, and somaesthetic experience. The understanding of experience will be based on John Dewey (1980), Richard Shusterman (1999), Maria Bukdahl (2012), Virgil C. Aldrich (1963), and Walter Benjamin (1935 [1969]).
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English Studies in Africa, 2022 This article looks at the relatively recent tendency to aestheticize life in Nairobi’s working-class and informal neighbourhoods in different forms of art and media. It focuses on two case studies – Steve Bloom’s photobook, Trading Places: The Merchants of Nairobi (2009) and the first issue of the Kenyan literary magazine Kwani? (2003).
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Decentralized Wind Energy Systems as Catalysts for Urban Resilience: A Design Framework
Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Confronting the escalating extreme weather events (EWEs) and intensifying winds, this study proposes an active response to these issues by exploring decentralized wind energy production for Peng Chau Island, Hong Kong. It integrates theoretical perspectives on energy democracy—empowering local communities through energy autonomy—and urban ...
Tian Cheng
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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Computer Analysis of Architecture Using Automatic Image Understanding
, 2019 In the past few years, computer vision and pattern recognition systems have been becoming increasingly more powerful, expanding the range of automatic tasks enabled by machine vision.
Li, Yuan, Shamir, Lior, Wei, Fan
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Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Conceptualizing the next patient interaction is done intuitively by the master practitioner for every patient encounter. The project analyzes student reflections following interactions with patients involving reversible and irreversible procedures and follows a project analyzing reflections with patients involving diagnoses.
David C. Johnsen +3 more
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Urban pollution and ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2019 Urban pollutants can degrade and inhibit ecological functions and processes. Those natural processes provide vital benefits and services to humans.
Baldocchi +20 more
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