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Urban Imaginary in Doha, Qatar
Histories of Postwar Architecture, 2022 This article examines the urban and architectural development of Doha, Qatar since 1950 with a focus on the last few decades and the construction of a modernist skyscraper skyline. It views the city stereoscopically, as both fact and symbol.
Peter Chomowicz
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The Poetic Metamorphoses of Chișinău City [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură, 2023 This article studies the evolution of the poetic imaginary of Chișinău City in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, which represents an overlap of images, of archetypal structures, which we integrated as theoretical support in the interpretation of urban ...
Rodica GOTCA
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Media Discourse as a Generator of the Urban Imaginary
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2023 The article studies the urban imaginary generating processes in modern society. The relevance of this interdisciplinary problem is proved by the fragmanted character of the existing research in this area including urban practices diversity through which ...
Natalia G. Fedotova
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Writing and Reflecting on the Imagination of the City – Interpretation of Calvino’s Invisible Cities [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is a novel that depicts an imaginary city, explores the appearance of an ideal city, and ponders over modern urban problems.
Jin Yi
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Urban Imaginary: City Image and Media Space
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2023 The article examines the role of imagination in creating an individual and collective city image. Noting the essential value of information and digital technologies in the modern world, the author draws attention on how the city image can be represented ...
Elizaveta I. Speshilova
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Architecture Image Studies Scientific Journal, 2021 Planet City is an urgent examination of the productive potential of extreme densification in an imagined future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness.
Liam Young
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Quelle(s) singularité(s) des imaginaires urbains de la fiction climatique au cinéma ?
ReS Futurae, 2023 The article proposes to question the specificity of the place of urban imaginaries in cli‑fi films. Are these imaginaries radically different from the most common representations of urban spaces in science fiction narratives?
Pierre‑Jacques Olagnier
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Urban Planning, 2022 Renderings are digital visualisations of urban development projects in the field of urban design that aim to create spatial knowledge about future-built urban environments, which we also refer to as imaginaries.
Sophie Mélix, Gabriela Christmann
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Exploring velotopian urban imaginaries: where Le Corbusier meets Constant? [PDF]
Mobilities, 2019 Cycling is increasingly seen as a solution to a large variety of urban problems, and as such continues to inspire innovations that aim to upscale cycling to unprecedented levels. Taken to the extreme, these ideas promise a future ‘Velotopia’ in which cycling constitutes a dominant or single mobility mode.
Anna Nikolaeva, Samuel Nello-Deakin
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Immaginario urbano ed epidemie
Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2021 Urban Imaginary and Epidemic. Richard Williams writes provocatively, we live in a second-hand world. Our experience is filtered, consciously or not, by the imaginary that becomes the basis of our definition of reality and therefore of our daily ...
Letizia Carrera
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