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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

“If You Can Read This . . .”: Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream and the Viewing of His Pictures

Panorama, 2018
To anyone who had the temerity to press a nose against the picture, to sniff at or try to smell it, he gave a clear message. . . . Just below his signature and the painting’s date, Homer wrote in light-colored script, as if it were flotsam from a wreck: “
Marc Simpson
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The Art of Bookbinding in the Ottoman Empire (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

Toruńskie Studia Bibliologiczne, 2012
This study deals with the Ottoman art of book ornamentation, its evolution and development between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. This period of development will be explained by considering bookbinding methods, techniques and materials.
Fatih Rukanci, Hakan Anameric
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HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expedições científicas no século XIX: o universo da ciência e a diversidade cultural

Cadernos de Campo, 2012
he present paper develops to realize a sociological analysis of the scientific context of the beginning of nineteenth century in Brazil. As a hegemonic discourse, the scientific narrative of the expeditions appears connected with the pictorial art in a ...
Marcelo Fetz
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How to Undo Things and Selves with Words: Understanding Literature as Praxis in Virginia Woolf’s Essays on Actresses

Sillages Critiques
Virginia Woolf reflects on her own medium in relation to the notion of personality. This article reads her essay “Personalities” (1947), in which she explores the reader’s response to the personalities of writers, in light of three essays that discuss ...
Caroline Marie
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Impresiones de un escritor ecuatoriano en Andalucía: Juan Montalvo y sus escritos sobre el arte hispano-musulmán [PDF]

, 2009
Este trabajo analiza los textos de Juan Montalvo, escritor ecuatoriano del siglo XIX, referidos al arte hispano-musulmán. Dichos textos aparecieron en su revista El cosmopolita, editada en Ecuador en los años sesenta de dicho siglo.
Jiménez Caballero, José Luis (Coordinador), Justo Estebaranz, Ángel   +1 more
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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