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Tree-squares in Anatolia : what does an emergent public space mean? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Urban places, besides their physical characteristics, are regarded as grounds where personal or collective meanings are created and accumulated. An individual can capture the meaning of a place, or create new meanings by relying on his/her own feelings ...
Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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Stabilizing Urban Slopes, A Step On Increasing Safety and Improving Aesthetic Sense of Citizens (Case: Tehran City)

open access: yesتحقيقات 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
doaj  

Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability in Healthcare: The Role of Digital Technologies for Improving Patient Engagement

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability in healthcare is getting considerable research attention as systems worldwide tend to balance environmental, social, and economic factors. In this context, digital technologies have demonstrated significant potential to enhance engagement among different consumer groups across various industries.
Francesco Schiavone   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bajji on the Beach: Middle-Class Food Practices in Chennai’s New Beach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and ..
Arabindoo, P
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Computer Analysis of Architecture Using Automatic Image Understanding

open access: yes, 2019
In the past few years, computer vision and pattern recognition systems have been becoming increasingly more powerful, expanding the range of automatic tasks enabled by machine vision.
Li, Yuan, Shamir, Lior, Wei, Fan
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The Relationship Between the Perceived Restorativeness of Urban Parks and Sociocultural Value: A Case Study of Labor Park in Dalian, China

open access: yesLand
Urban parks are important places, reflecting the culture of residential communities. The role of urban parks in providing cultural experiences and creating local cultural value is becoming increasingly prominent.
Jidong Guo, Hyeogin Kwon
doaj   +1 more source

‘Like a Kid's Book’: Pilot Testing of a Visual Informed Consent Form With Children in Canada, Ghana and Laos

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is a moral imperative to conduct the consent process in a way that is understandable, engaging and meaningful for children. This underscores the necessity of obtaining consent through age‐ and culturally appropriate methods and content. Using qualitative, participatory visual research methods, this study aimed to gather feedback on a visual
Negin Zamani   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape aesthetics: Assessing the general publics’ rural landscape preferences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
working paperThe central aim of this study was to gain greater insights into the factors that affect individuals’ preferences for a variety of landscape settings.
Howley, Peter
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