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Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2018 Services related to leisure time are treated as an important factor in the development of cities - a factor creating urban recreational spaces. It is also important to provide such spaces with appropriate elements of infrastructure, which would ...
Mokras-Grabowska Justyna
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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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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Open space networks provide multiple ecosystem services and other benefits which are particularly important to urban regions. Accordingly, there are many examples around the world of urban‐regional open space policies such as regional parks and green belts that connect non‐built‐up areas over several municipalities. Yet it is still unclear how
Gerd Lintz, Mariam Diagayété
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Health Preferences and Sorting in the City
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
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„Miasto nigdy się nie kończy…”. Mroczne oblicze miasta w prozie Herty Müller
Studia Rossica PosnaniensiaOne of the recurring motifs in Herta Müllerʼs work is the experience of the city, which often becomes a space of threat, violence, uncertainty, and finally repression and death.
Estera Głuszko-Boczoń
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Urban aesthetics: emergence and development [PDF]
At the beginning of the 3rd millennium, when urban settlements become more and more crowded due to the work and life conditions they offer, urban aesthetics is becoming increasingly imperative. This is all the more important as population growth, in some
Liviu Bogdan Vlad
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Analyzing the Aesthetics of Participation of Media Architecture [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the aesthetics of participation of media architecture. The framework is based on a close reading of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and provides four points of emphasis: modes of sense ...
Bishop C. +10 more
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Emerging Perovskite Solar Cells for Building‐Integrated Photovoltaic Applications
Information &Functional Materials, EarlyView.In this review, we discuss technological approaches of perovskite solar cells that are highly compatible with the requirements of building‐integrated photovoltaic applications, including semi‐transparent, colorful, and flexible perovskite solar cells.
Yongke Liang +4 more
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Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape ManagementTourists’ visual preferences are of paramount importance for the local garden environment assessment. However, the diversity of garden elements presents challenges in achieving uniform assessments.
Wenjie Liu, Rouran Zhang, Huan Li
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On Microclimatic Islands. The Garden as a Place of Intensified Thermal Experience
Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2019 Gardens have always been appreciated as places of particular microclimatic qualities. Seen within the broader context of Enlightenment, gardens can be conceived as places of intensified thermal experience and as man-made concentrations of climate. In the
Sascha Roesler
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