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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Housing, dwelling, city, world: Towards an embedded philosophy. Interview with Philippe Simay
European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and LandscapesThis interview with philosopher Philippe Simay takes as its point of departure the television documentary series Habiter le monde, using it as a critical entry into broader reflections on inhabiting, urban aesthetics, and the historical city.
Philippe Simay +3 more
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Observations on Urban Aesthetic
Bulletin KNOB, 2018 Bulletin KNOB, Bulletin KNOB 117 (2018 ...
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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Urban Aesthetics and Wellbeing Scoping Review
Urban environments present a range of potential benefits for wellbeing through their design and aesthetics. However, there is a lack of comprehensive overview on how the urban environment, particularly its designed man-made components, has previously ...
Kirren Chana +9 more
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Aesthetics, Authenticity & City Place-Making
Rivista di EsteticaCities’ constructed environments position urban areas at the center of importance. The concept of “urban place” has mainly evolved into a marketable and branded good as a result of the advent of numerous design-led place-making policies and practices. In
Mustapha El Moussaoui
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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تحقيقات جغرافيايی, 2016 Many of cities settled on hill slopes are faced with the danger of mass movements based on the lithology, slope angel, percolation and precipitation characteristics.
Siavosh Shayan, Hedieh Dehestani
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