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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Shifting Core and Slipping Foundation: An Uncertain Future of Landscape Architecture in European Universities [PDF]
, 2010 Faced with the dual and often conflicting necessity to be scientific and design practices the discipline of landscape architecture today is challenged to re-examine its core and intellectual foundation.
Koh, J.
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The Aesthetics of Transformation [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2017 In the context of the traditional definition of aesthetics as the “science on beauty”, the title of this paper can be understood as a contradiction in the first place.
Vladimir Mako
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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The bodily other and everyday experience of the lived urban world [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the relationship between the bodily presence of other humans in the lived urban world and the experience of everyday architecture.
Bader, Oren, Peri Bader, Aya
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Exploring the Duality of Urban Living Through the Aesthetics of the Nighttime City
Rivista di EsteticaResearch in the emerging area of the philosophy of the city has blossomed significantly in the last decade. One research strand is urban lighting, which offers several insights into how cities appear, focusing on a range of issues.
Shane Epting
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Visual Aesthetic Quality Assessment of Urban Forests: A Conceptual Framework
Urban Science, 2022 Visual aesthetic quality is the visual pleasure level that attracts people and makes them prefer certain areas. Visual aesthetic quality is valued and considered for urban forests but remains challenging.
Riyadh Mundher +7 more
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Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural landscapes represent critical contexts for advancing policy objectives related to tree cover expansion. This paper explores how farmers' values influence their willingness or ability to grow trees on farms. Research is based on 49 interviews and two focus groups with farmers in England and draws on two social science research ...
Stephen McConnachie +7 more
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Creating an Art Tourist Space in the Urban Sphere of Lodz – a Theoretical Approach Based on the Example of the Urban Forms Gallery of Murals [PDF]
, 2016 The Urban Forms Gallery of murals in Lodz, Poland, is a “live gallery” of more than 30 large-format paintings made directly on the façades of the buildings. This unique street art exhibition changes the appearance of Lodz’s public space and constitutes a
Mokras-Grabowska, Justyna
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THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN IN THE PROCESS OF MODERNISATION OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics, 2017 The present paper shows the role of industrial design in the process of modernisation of railway vehicles, illustrated through a study case – personal experience. The collaboration with the “Electroputere VFU Pa?cani” factory, specialized in reparations,
Silviu Teodor-Stanciu
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