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Understanding perceptions regarding the aesthetics of urban public space: Tunali Hilmi Street, Ankara

open access: yes, 2011
Urban aesthetics has been the concern of many academic researches, and there have been now more than hundred definitions of urban aesthetics. It is crucial to understand that aesthetics is more than just about the form and physical qualities of a place ...
YONCA PEHLİVANOĞLU
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
wiley   +1 more source

URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS

open access: yes, 2014
Tarih boyunca insanlar tek tek yapılarda olduğu kadar yarattıkları fiziksel çevrelerde de estetik nitelik aramışlar ve bu kaygı ile çevrelerini düzene sokma arayışında olmuşlardır. Doğal ve kültürel ögelerin bir araya gelmesi ile biçimlenen kentler onu oluşturan parçalardan farklı nitelik taşıyan bütünlerdir.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workshop proceedings : urban limit line (April 18, 1990)

open access: yes, 1991
v, 55 p. : ill., maps. "...organized...to discuss Plan Winnipeg's urban limit line" -- p. 1 Sponsored by Man. Dept.
Urban Limit Line Workshop
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A Collective Approach to Creative Entrepreneurship: Evidence From Performing Arts Incubators

open access: yesCreativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the concept of artists as creative entrepreneurs has been studied to enable artists to survive in uncertain environments, some studies have criticized this approach for focusing on individual artists, which may lead to isolation and jeopardize their careers.
Julia Parigot, Emmanuel Coblence
wiley   +1 more source

Political Aesthetics and the Urban Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
 The purpose of this paper is to sketch out a conception of urban political aesthetics aimed to demonstrate a continuing relevance of philosophy to understanding the city.
Chmielewski, Adam
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Valuing local water quality in Ontario using revealed preference data

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, EarlyView.
Abstract Improving water quality is an important goal for policymakers, yet understanding the economic benefits people receive from changes in water quality is challenging because many of the benefits are non‐market in nature. We use spatially explicit lake Secchi disk depth measures and information on over 320,000 property sales to provide the most ...
Tharaka A. Jayalath   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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