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Cogent Social Sciences, 2018 Eco-aesthetics offers cultural, socio-economic and environmental benefits for building sustainable green infrastructure systems. However, eco-aesthetics in urban green infrastructure is apparently inadequate in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (
Ayisha Ida Haruna +2 more
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Brain and BehaviorIntroduction With the growth of the global urban population, interest in urban aesthetics has been steadily increasing. Previous studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain responses have suggested that various brain ...
Keisuke Kokubun +3 more
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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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Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Cities change and are transformed over time due to economic, social and political decisions, and this process can have either a positive or a negative effect on the visual aesthetic quality of the streets and avenues.
Ayşe Tekel
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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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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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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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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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Analyzing the Aesthetics of Participation of Media Architecture [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing the aesthetics of participation of media architecture. The framework is based on a close reading of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and provides four points of emphasis: modes of sense ...
Bishop C. +10 more
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