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Square as a Visual Pattern of the Urban Environment
Urbis et Orbis: Mikroistoriâ i Semiotika Goroda, 2023 This article is devoted to the analysis of the square as one of the key visual elements (patterns) of the urban environment. To understand how a city works, it is necessary to find out what urban practices are associated with the square, what its role is
Sergey Avanesov
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Heritage, gentrification, participation : remaking urban landscapes in the name of culture and historic preservation : introduction [PDF]
, 2019 This special issue explores the relationship between heritagization, shifting economies, and urban struggles in different cities around the globe. Our aim is to examine the conditions that have brought history, culture, an old/new urban aesthetics, real ...
De Cesari, Chiara, Dimova, Rozita
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Urban pollution and ecosystem services [PDF]
, 2019 Urban pollutants can degrade and inhibit ecological functions and processes. Those natural processes provide vital benefits and services to humans.
Baldocchi +20 more
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New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]
, 2016 From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
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BEYOND THE TOMB: HAN DYNASTY AESTHETICS IN PUBLIC ART, WOODBLOCK NEW YEAR PAINTINGS, AND URBAN SPACES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and GeositesPurpose: This study aims to explore the continuity of Han Dynasty aesthetics in modern Chinese art and its influence on contemporary urban landscapes. Han Dynasty, being the foundation of China history, was founded by Emperor Gaozu, whom also stabiized
Sen GAO +5 more
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The poiesis of everyday life and space in Yüksel Street [PDF]
, 2019 A
Cihanger Medeiros Ribeiro, Duygu
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The Aestheticisation of Governance in India: The Appeal of Urban Aesthetics in Microfinance
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2022 Financial processes are aestheticised both spatially and in embodied modes, as urban spaces such as New Delhi change and become ‘world-class’ in response to finance and give rise to new internal urban hierarchies and figurations of the ‘ideal ...
Tanushree Kaushal
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"Darling Look! It’s a Banksy!” Viewers’ Material Engagement with Street Art and Graffiti [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter examines viewers’ affective encounters with street art and graffiti, with attention to the critical framework provided by Rancière (2004), whose work suggests a method for investigating our aesthetic practices of participation (or exclusion)
Flynn, Danny, Hansen, Susan
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User satisfaction with aesthetics of urban park seating [PDF]
Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STUUrban parks are considered among the most important areas of public space for re-laxation and recreation. They are gaining ever more importance in our cities with their continuous physical, social and cultural development.
Abdurrahman Mohamed
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Heritage, 2023 The need to improve the energy performance of European buildings is beyond all doubt, as indicated by the different regulatory determinations on energy and climate change adopted by different public administrations in recent years.
Iñigo Lizundia +2 more
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