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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
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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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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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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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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The planning, design and management of urban green and blue spaces necessitate trade‐offs between these spaces' many benefits and their drawbacks, but knowledge of perceived problems and unpleasant experiences in urban green and blue spaces remains limited.
Alyssa L. Solvie +5 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 InquiryThis 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 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 +7 more
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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 +4 more
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Afrofuturist to bantutopian cities: towards an aesthetics of sustainable African cities
, 2019 In my thesis I explore the aesthetics of sustainable African cities through the lens of Afrofuturism as an inclusive design approach. It explores this through studio-based research in site specific contexts of Joburg, Dunusa (which means to bend over in
Mlati, Michelle Nhlamulo
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