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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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CROSS-INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: APPLYING LUXURY RETAIL MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS TO MEDICAL AESTHETICS OPERATIONS

This article describes how management practices developed in the luxury retail sector can be applied to the operational context of medical aesthetics clinics.
Marharyta Kuzmichova
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GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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Restless Secularism

, 2017
Restless Secularism explores the efforts of modernist writers to articulate a viable secular imagination, to trace the relation of this secular imagination to the Christian culture from which it emerged, and to purify secular life of ...
Matthew Mutter
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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EARLY CHILDHOOD, DAILY LIFE AND CURRICULUM: REFLECTIONS BASED ON AN ETHICAL CHOICE SUPPORTED BY AESTHETICS [PDF]

Este artigo tem como objetivo refletir sobre o tema da cotidianidade como o lugar do currículo na creche e nas escolas de infância a partir da concepção de educação infantil proposta por Loris Malaguzzi (1920-1994, Itália), criador do que conhecemos como
Alves dos Reis, Francine, Siquelli, Sônia Aparecida   +1 more
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A picture worth a thousand words: The effect of murals on crime

Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Drawing on the tenets of situational crime prevention, several place‐based interventions are both effective in reducing crime and relatively inexpensive. The installation of large exterior murals also fits within the situational crime prevention framework.
Maya Moritz
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Sanar, acariciar, embellecer. Masculinidades y estética profesional en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) [PDF]

, 2021
This article considers the experiences of men who are trained to be workers in the beauty industry. It is a qualitative study developed with students and graduates of Vocational Training courses in body aesthetics and hairdressing.
Millenaar, Verónica
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