Aesthetic Perceptions Of Urban Environments
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Aesthetic Perceptions Of Urban Environments
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Author : Arundhati Virmani
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Aesthetic Perceptions Of Urban Environments written by Arundhati Virmani and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Political Science categories.
To 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 the mind, body and sensibilities. It uses empirical studies ranging from China, India to Western Europe. Three axes are privileged. The first considers urban everyday aesthetic experiences in the long-term as a historical production, from medieval Italy to a future imagined by science fiction. The second examines the impact of aestheticizing everyday material realities in neighbourhoods, and the tensions and conflicts these engender around urban commons. Finally, the third axis considers these relationships as aesthetic inequalities, exacerbated in a new age of urban development. The book combines local and transnational scales with an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together historians, sociologists, cultural geographers, anthropologists, architects and contemporary art curators. They illustrate the importance of combining different social science methods and functional perspectives to study such complex social and cultural realities as cities. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of humanities and social sciences, cultural and urban studies, architecture and political geography.
Urban Space And Urban Conservation As An Aesthetic Problem
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Author : Gregers Algreen-Ussing
language : en
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Release Date : 2000
Urban Space And Urban Conservation As An Aesthetic Problem written by Gregers Algreen-Ussing and has been published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
Enkelt artikel fra bogen Urban space and urban conservation as an aesthetic problem c lectures presented at the international conference in Rome, 23rd-26th October 1997
Environmental Aesthetics
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Author : J. Douglas Porteous
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Environmental Aesthetics written by J. Douglas Porteous and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Architecture categories.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Senses In Cities
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Author : Kelvin E.Y. Low
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-05
Senses In Cities written by Kelvin E.Y. Low and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Social Science categories.
Urban landscapes are usually thought of first and foremost as engineered formations designed for functionality. It is quite clear, however, that cities and towns are sites of social structure, scenes of diversity, and hotbeds of transgressions. They are also sources of satisfying social relationships, settings for actions negotiated on an everyday basis, and opportunities for kinesthetic and aesthetic experiences. Within these processes, the senses mediate engagement with the optimism of urban growth, the comfort of urban traditions, and a consciousness of the diverse relationships that embellish urban living, but also with the repellent sights and sounds that invade zones of comfort. This book examines how qualities of place and their sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions and practices in urban life. The collection illuminates how urban environments are distinguished, valued, or reconfigured with the senses as media for evaluating authentic spaces and places that endure and change over time.
Environmental Aesthetics
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Author : Jack L. Nasar
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-07-31
Environmental Aesthetics written by Jack L. Nasar and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-31 with Psychology categories.
How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.
Naturally Challenged Contested Perceptions And Practices In Urban Green Spaces
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Author : Nicola Dempsey
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Naturally Challenged Contested Perceptions And Practices In Urban Green Spaces written by Nicola Dempsey and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Social Science categories.
This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into ‘success’ and/or ‘failure’. The provision, care and use of natural landscapes in urban settings (e.g. parks, woodland, nature reserves, riverbanks) are under-researched in academia and under-resourced in practice. Our growing knowledge of the benefits of natural urban spaces for wellbeing contrasts with asset management approaches in practice that view public green spaces as liabilities. Why is there a mismatch between what we know about urban green space and what we do in practice? What makes some UGS more ‘successful’ than others? And who decides on this measure of ‘success’ and how is this constituted? This book sets out to answer these and related questions by exploring a range of approaches to designing, planning and managing different natural landscapes in urban settings.
The City As Cultural Metaphor
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Author : Arto Haapala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The City As Cultural Metaphor written by Arto Haapala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
The urban environment offers a variety of intriguing problems for scholars in different disciplines. The city milieu is rich and varied enough for different kinds of theoretical and practical approaches. In this collection, aestheticians, architects, art historians, geographers and philosophers address questions of the city from their perspectives. The concept of metaphor is the key term by which some of the variety of the urban environment can be captured. Articles in the collection show how the urban milieu and metaphor are intertwined together both at theoretical and practical levels. The city is connected with wilderness and sin, it is studied through images and imagination, and cities such as Constantinople, Copenhagen, Helsinki and St. Petersburg are interpreted as metaphors or with the help of metaphors. The collection gives a fresh and many-sided picture to the problems we are dealing with daily when living in an urban environment.
Aesthetics And The Urban Environment
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Author : Ronald Nils Oster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Aesthetics And The Urban Environment written by Ronald Nils Oster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Aesthetics categories.
Forms Of Experienced Environments
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Author : Nathalie Blanc
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-26
Forms Of Experienced Environments written by Nathalie Blanc and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-26 with Art categories.
This book explores ‘environmental forms’ in terms of their relationships to the socio-politico-ecological transformations currently in progress. Today, the environment is a central theme in political discourse, scientific work and everyday life. It is multi-dimensional: it is a living space, a socio-ecological system and a field of research and action. However, despite the presence and diversity of existing approaches, the ways in which policies address environmental issues remain mainly focused on control, highlighting the techno-ecological, managerial and curative dimensions of public actions. Although public action tends to instrumentalise the environment, the humanities and social sciences have initiated significant reflections in this field, proposing alternative ways of thinking about the environment in its multiple aspects and scales. As part of ‘another approach’ to the environment that mirrors contemporary developments, this book adopts a form-based approach which has been largely neglected by previous studies dealing with environmental themes. The analyses provided here will open up a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics and environments, and are drawn from different schools of research, highlighting the huge potential of reading the environment through forms or, conversely, a reading of environmental forms.
Design Review
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Author : Brenda C. Scheer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Design Review written by Brenda C. Scheer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Political Science categories.
That the topic ofdesign review is somehow trou My biases are clearfrom the start: I am among blesome is probably one thing all readers can those who believe that, despite all signals to the contrary, the physical structure of our environ agree on. Beyond this, however, I suspect pros pects of consensus are dim. Differing opinions ment can be managed, and that controlling it is on the subject likely range from those desiring the key to the ameliorationofnumerous problems control tothosedesiringfreedom. Saysonecamp: confronting society today. I believe that design our physical and natural environments are going can solve a host ofproblems, and that the design to hell in a hand basket. Says the other: design of the physical environment does influence be review boards are only as good as their members; havior. more often than not their interventions produce Clearly, this is a perspective that encompasses mediocre architecture. more than one building at a time and demands As a town planner and architect, I am sympa that each building understand its place in a larger thetic to the full range of sentiment. Perhaps a context-the city. Indeed, anyone proposing discussion of these two concepts-control and physical solutions to urban problems is designing freedom-and their differences would now be or, as may seem more often the case, destroying useful. But let me instead suggest that both posi the city.