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Urban Aesthetics and Technology
2021Technology in one form or another has always been a part of urban life. Its development and uses have traditionally been dictated by the practical needs of the community. However, technologies also impact how a city looks and feels. Some technologies have a clear perceivable presence, whereas others are more invisibly embedded into the material ...
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IABSE Symposium, Shanghai 2004: Metropolitan Habitats and Infrastructure, 2004
Urban bridges very often become benchmarks of the city or metropolis, speciaIly if they presenil aesthetical achievement. This fact has to be accepted during the design process. Therefore the shapf or details of some urban bridge very often try to present some part of cities history, som_ technologies that characterize some city era or are simply ...
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Urban bridges very often become benchmarks of the city or metropolis, speciaIly if they presenil aesthetical achievement. This fact has to be accepted during the design process. Therefore the shapf or details of some urban bridge very often try to present some part of cities history, som_ technologies that characterize some city era or are simply ...
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Cars, Aesthetics and Urban Development
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2008The aim of this presentation is, first, to examine the role of aesthetics in creating the experiential effects of the attractions of Autostadt at Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony in Germany. Secondly, Autostadt will be seen in a perspective of urban and regional development which will include a reference to how Volkswagen AG has contributed to the development
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2019
The idea of ecology embraces more than the biological world; it extends to the cultural world as well, including the built environment. At the same time our understanding of environment has changed to include the human participants and not just their external surroundings.
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The idea of ecology embraces more than the biological world; it extends to the cultural world as well, including the built environment. At the same time our understanding of environment has changed to include the human participants and not just their external surroundings.
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Diogenes, 2012
AbstractIn the essay Aesthetics of Urban Design it is argued that contemporary aesthetics should have a base in the design of the city. It is in the everyday life of the city that people can train, exercise, improve and enlarge their aesthetic sensibilities. Given this context, two different approaches have to be distinguished.
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AbstractIn the essay Aesthetics of Urban Design it is argued that contemporary aesthetics should have a base in the design of the city. It is in the everyday life of the city that people can train, exercise, improve and enlarge their aesthetic sensibilities. Given this context, two different approaches have to be distinguished.
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Underground Aesthetics: Rethinking Urban Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2007An ethnographic study and a design proposal for a situated music-exchange application suggest how explicitly foregrounding the experiential qualities of urban life can help rethink urban computing design. In this article, through reflection on the ethnographic study results and the undersound design, how an aesthetic account of urban life might be the ...
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Cultivating an Urban Aesthetic
Diogenes, 1986For most people the city, particularly the industrial city, is the antithesis of the aesthetic. While there may be sections that have their charm, trucks and automobiles have conquered the urban streets and pedestrians scurry before them like vanquished before a victor.
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Urban Design Aesthetics: The Evaluative Qualities of Building Exterion
Environment and Behavior, 1994Design reviewers make judgments based on their opinion of how physical features influence the evaluative quality of the building and its surroundings. What features evoke favorable evaluative responses? Although some people may view aesthetics as qualitative and idiosyncratic, researchers have continued in their search for general principles.
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2016
If we study the evolution of the urban space in Switzerland we must notice the high importance assigned by different urban actors to aesthetic questions. In a sense, the subjective realm of the aesthetic has proved to be able to generate conditions that lead to action, and consequently influence the realm of the objective i.e.
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If we study the evolution of the urban space in Switzerland we must notice the high importance assigned by different urban actors to aesthetic questions. In a sense, the subjective realm of the aesthetic has proved to be able to generate conditions that lead to action, and consequently influence the realm of the objective i.e.
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