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Urban aesthetics: emergence and development [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2009
At the beginning of the 3rd millennium, when urban settlements become more and more crowded due to the work and life conditions they offer, urban aesthetics is becoming increasingly imperative. This is all the more important as population growth, in some cities has influenced directly the city’s architecture, determining a growth of residential ...
Liviu Bogdan Vlad
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From Environmental Aesthetics to Urban Aesthetics

2009
An interview with Arnold Berleant published in Chinese on environmental aesthetics.
Berleant, Arnold, Xiangzhan, Cheng
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The New Urban Aesthetic

2022
Cities are key sites for the reproduction of global capitalism, and urban branding is central to this transformative dynamic. In the 21st century, cities are also being profoundly reconfigured by the deployment of many kinds of digital technologies. Both of these shifts entrain sensory bodily experiences. This digitally mediated reconfiguration of what
Mónica Montserrat Degen, Gillian Rose
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Aesthetics of Urban Bridges

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 Aesthetics and Technology

2021
Technology 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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The Urban Aesthetic

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1957
The aesthetics of a great city is a combination of many sensory stimuli as well as the visual one. Most of these and even some of the visual effects are outside the control of the designer. Great cities have had fine ap proaches, fine magnets of general interest. They have historically been mainly for the slow pedestrian and for daytime effect. Now we
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Cars, Aesthetics and Urban Development

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2008
The 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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Aesthetics of Urban Design

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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Urban Aesthetics

Iride
The monographic section presents an overview of the current state of urban aesthetics (A. Borsari) and aims to contribute to the reflection on its issues and problems, focusing on, respectively: some aesthetic categories of urban experience, such as «atmospheres», «rhythms», «ruins», «terrain vague», «cityscape» (N.
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