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Revitalization as a synergistic effect

Budownictwo i Architektura, 2016
The development of modern cities is carried out in two main directions – expanding the suburban structures and restoring the life of the existing building areas.
Katarzyna Szmygin
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Book review - Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism by Shelton Stromquist. 2023

Radical Housing Journal, 2023
Shelton Stromquist has written a long and very rich account of the international history of local socialist activism, often called municipal socialism.
Hannes Rolf
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Alchemical Cities, Apocalyptic Cities: The City as an Exponent of Magical Realism and Ideology in Angela Carter’s Novels

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2020
Reality in Angela Carter’s magical realist novels is depicted through the deployment of numerous picturesque details that correspond to the readers’ experiential reality, differentiating such a world from non-realist forms.
Muždeka Nina
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The role of religious buildings in forming the appearance of Belarusian cities in the end of the 16th – beginning of the 20th centuries

Urbis et Orbis: Mikroistoriâ i Semiotika Goroda, 2022
The article is devoted to the study of the role of religious buildings in shaping the appearance of the cities of Belarus in the late 16th – early 20th centuries. Cities arose at different times. This was facilitated by various circumstances.
Viktor Karpiyevich
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Architectural Concept: (Op)Positional Infinity of the City

Rivista di Estetica
This paper analyzes the role of the architectural concept in the creation and life of the city. Aiming to identify the urban qualities in the concept, I introduce the distinction between the first and the second object of architecture, where the former ...
Snežana Vesnić
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СОЦІАЛЬНА ЦІНА ТА СОЦІАЛЬНА ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІСТЬ: ПІДПРИЄМНИЦЬКА БЛАГОДІЙНІСТЬ У ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ ХІХ ст. [PDF]

Storìnki Istorìï, 2014
The article is devoted to the problem of the institute of entrepreneurial charity establishing in the cities after the Great reforms. The forms and methods of the charity are analyzed.
Т. С. Водотика
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Spatial development modeling methodology application possibilities in Vilnius / Erdvinės plėtros modeliavimo metodologijų taikymo galimybės Vilniaus mieste

Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2017
In order to control the continued development of high-rise buildings and their irreversible visual impact on the overall silhouette of the city, the great cities of the world introduced new methodological principles to city’s spatial development models ...
Lina Panavaitė
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The City and Gender Expression in Nik Nicholson’s Descendants of Hagar and Leona Beasley’s Something Better than Home [PDF]

Pensées Genre, Penser Autrement
The city has become a hub of economic, social, and cultural exchange. Therefore, it appears to be the ideal place for shaping new normativities relating to gender and sexuality.
Emma Brigitte DONGO
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The City and Its Therapeutic Dimension in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2016
My concern in this paper is the inclusion of the city among early modern prescriptions for attaining mental, bodily and moral health that takes place in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).
Alexandra Bacalu
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The flaneuse. The oblique gaze in the city

Fuori Luogo, 2021
Le strade della Parigi del XIX secolo, definita non a caso da Walter Benjamin la capitale della modernità, sono lo scenario entro il quale compare la figura del flâneur.
Letizia Carrera
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