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Learning Dilation Factors for Semantic Segmentation of Street Scenes

open access: yes, 2017
Contextual information is crucial for semantic segmentation. However, finding the optimal trade-off between keeping desired fine details and at the same time providing sufficiently large receptive fields is non trivial. This is even more so, when objects
DE Rumelhart   +4 more
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Curating street art

open access: yesStreet Art & Urban Creativity, 2017
After being largely ignored for decades, street art has in the last ten years been increasingly assimilated by society and the art system. Numerous artists who started their careers producing street work on their own initiative and without seeking permission are now being commissioned to create official public art – mostly murals – and pieces for ...
openaire   +1 more source

Street art conservation

open access: yesStreet Art & Urban Creativity, 2015
There is a need to create a documentation system adapted to facilitate the conservation and restoration of Street Art and Graffiti. Even though they are ephemeral manifestations of art, there have been some signs of the need for preservation mechanisms that would respect their own special features.
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Book review: ornament and order: graffiti, street art and the parergon by Rafael Schacter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ornament and Order offers a valuable and insightful view into an underexplored area of street art, writes Kate Bailey. The majority of examples draw on Rafael Schacter’s two-year period of fieldwork based in Madrid, where he was embedded within an ...
Bailey, Kate
core  

Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

Graffiti, Street Art and Ambivalence

open access: yesHumanities
The article considers the practice and praxis of graffiti and street art from the perspectives of law enforcement, local government and placemaking, and between the production and consumption of this ambivalent form of cultural expression.
Graeme Lorenzo Evans
doaj   +1 more source

Glocal Street Art

open access: yesCalenda, 2021
Les œuvres réalisées sans autorisation dans l'espace public sont souvent éphémères et mouvantes. Leur précarité tient en premier lieu à leur caractère clandestin. Nombre d'entre elles sont ainsi arrachées ou effacées par les propriétaires légaux du support privé ou public. Cette précarité tient également à leur emplacement à ciel ouvert, qui les soumet
openaire   +1 more source

Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

MURAL DEFINISI DAN SEJARAH PERKEMBANGANNYA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The presence of the mural in the development of human civilization have been found long ago. Murals or painted walls has existed since prehistoric times that the site is in caves.
Isnanta, Satriana Didiek
core  

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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