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The Value of Image. The Design of and Data Streams from the Perception by Design
Proceedings, 2017 The importance of design aimed to the enhancement of the urban landscape, it is accredited by the eye-established preeminence in today’s culture. Image and form are essential elements of the perceptual process and they are closely linked to sight, the ...
Fabio Bianconi +3 more
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Civic binationality and the right to the city in Mexico City's paradiplomacy
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2019 As part of the study of “new diplomacies”, this paper examines the paradiplomacy of cities. It argues that city paradiplomacy distinguishes itself by avoiding being a mere imitation of state diplomacy.
Antonio Alejo
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City Resilience vs. Resilient City: Terminological Intricacies and Concept Inaccuracies
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2018 The concept of resilience has in recent years been one of the more commonly used urban development concepts. In the social sciences, the term is understood as a dynamic process that reflects a relatively good adaptation, irrespective of the hazards or ...
Mierzejewska Lidia, Wdowicka Magdalena
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Postdramatic Theatre and Postdramatic Performance
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2015 Beginning with the concept of a postdramatic theatre as articulated by the German theorist Hans-Thies Lehmann, this essay considers the recent work of several major international directors – Ivo van Hove, Punchdrunk, Signa and others – as examples of ...
Marvin Carlson (The City University of New York – New York, United States of America)
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THE CITY AND ITS IMAGE: DISCOURSES OF THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING
Russian Studies in Culture and SocietyThe article is devoted to understanding the ideas that influence the understanding of the essence of the city and its image in the process of historical development.
Maria E. Kulyan-Kozionova +2 more
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The Construction of Power in China Miéville’s Novel The City & the City
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları DergisiThe novel The City and the City by British writer and academician China Miéville is a combination of science fiction, weird fiction, and crime genres. The novel reflects Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Umut Erdoğan
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For a Safer City. A Friendlier City. And a More Beautiful City.
TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2009 The issue of the safety of mobility in the urban environment has been emerging as a primary social topic for some time now due to the number of casualties and, more generally, due to the impact on living conditions in the city. If correctly formulated, in fact, this subject has implications primarily and fundamentally with regard to the quality of ...
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Pictures of Cities???Cities in Pictures
, 2012 InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 3 No 1 (2012): From Time to Space?
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Cities as Flows, Cities of Flows [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2011 Michael Batty, James Cheshire
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Recognizing the City on Screen: City Mindscape, City Selection, and City Recognition
Frontiers in Sustainable DevelopmentThis article proposes a framework for understanding how spectators recognize cities in films by theorizing the relationship between city mindscape, city selection, and city recognition. Building on Kevin Lynch’s notion of the “image of the city” and research on cognitive mapping, the article distinguishes experience-based “city images” from media-based
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