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Alchemical Cities, Apocalyptic Cities: The City as an Exponent of Magical Realism and Ideology in Angela Carter’s Novels

open access: yesAmerican, 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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Set Moves: Constructions of Travel in Commercial Games for Children

open access: yesLiterature
During the long nineteenth century, Western publics experienced the invention and proliferation of commercial games for children. Card games, board games, and other parlor games were no longer for adults only; these new offerings formalized some aspects ...
Melissa Jenkins
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The real city - the mental city

open access: yesBack to the Sense of the City: International Monograph Book, 2016
The search for relationships and dependencies between the real city and its mental image, may prove to be a key to understanding and reading the needs of the residents, primarily related to safety and comfort of living, as well as the location of places conducive to the development of social bonds.
Gibała-Kapecka, Beata, Kapecki, Tomasz
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Sensing the city [PDF]

open access: yescultural geographies, 2013
We reflect upon our involvement in Do You See What I Mean?, a sitespecific work of contemporary ‘street theatre’ presented as part of Vancouver’s 2013 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. A collaboration between a geographer and professional artists, the project involved engaging audience members in a 2.5-hour blindfolded guided tour of the ...
Johnston C, Lorimer H
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The flaneuse. The oblique gaze in the city

open access: yesFuori 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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Architectural Concept: (Op)Positional Infinity of the City

open access: yesRivista 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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55 cases of perioperative mortality in oral maxillofacial head and neck cancer patients: a retrospective analysis

open access: yes口腔疾病防治, 2020
Objective To analyze the characteristics of perioperative mortality (POM) in oral maxillofacial head and neck cancer patients.Methods A retrospective study was adapted for head and neck cancer patients who were treated and had POM in the department of ...
SUN Zhongyi   +3 more
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Kędzierzyn-Koźle – dziedzictwo przeszłości w kulturze miasta przemysłowego na pograniczu etniczno-kulturowym

open access: yesPoliteja, 2021
Kędzierzyn-Koźle – The Heritage of the Past in the Culture of the Industrial City Functioning in the Ethnic and Cultural Frontier The article draws attention to the issues of symbolic functioning of the city which was formed of two different entities ...
Edward Nycz
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СОЦІАЛЬНА ЦІНА ТА СОЦІАЛЬНА ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІСТЬ: ПІДПРИЄМНИЦЬКА БЛАГОДІЙНІСТЬ У ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ ХІХ ст. [PDF]

open access: yesStorìnki 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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Science and the City: The role of women in the science city: London 1650–1800

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2021
Women played fundamental roles in the establishment of London as a ‘science city’ in the period 1650–1800. Taking its inspiration from the themes explored in the Science Museum’s new permanent gallery, Science City 1550–1800: The Linbury Gallery, this ...
Jane Desborough, Gloria Clifton
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