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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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Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments
2021To what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through aesthetic perceptions, and aspirations? This book approaches experiences of urban aesthetics not as an established framework, defined by imposed norms or legislations, but as the result of a continuous reflexive and proactive gaze, a complex and deep engagement of ...
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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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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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Art Education and Urban Aesthetics
Leonardo, 2002The widespread problem of visual illiteracy prevents people from perceiving the aesthetic quality of their surroundings. This inability represents a barrier to full participation by the public in debates over the kinds of cities they want to live in, and yet the physical qualities of the environment strongly affect the social and psychological well ...
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AESTHETIC IDEOLOGY AND URBAN DESIGN∗
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1979The three-dimensional shapes of contemporary American urban commerce, usually described as symptoms of cultural anarchy, are the products of coherent and comprehensible historical and economic patterns. Architectural form and the syntax of present-day commercial competition can be traced to the elaboration and evolution of late-nineteenth century World'
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