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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Ideal city"”.
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Past and Present: Transformation of an ideal City - Beijing
Early Chinese city planners and builders succeeded in creating a imperial ideal city - Beijing. The spatial order of Beijing expresses the elaborate system of imperial hierarchy (meaning). Since the founding of People's Republic in 1949 as all the physical elements which defined the old spatial …
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Kinetic Demonstrations
… architectural conditions in pursuit of the ideal through specific acts of drawn geometric constructs. It attempts to clear away superimposed doxa from architecture, making space for a demonstration of epistemic constructs. These projections of the ideal carry with them the basic autonomy of …
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Ausonius’ cities: perception of the urban space in fourth-century Gaul
… of all, it was demonstrated that the poet’s ideal city was heavily influenced by his traditional education and Ausonius enjoyed setting his literary characters in the décor of a classical city. However, his works also emphasised the rising image of the walled city, both as a topographic …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta empaquetadora y exportadora de aguaymanto (Physalis peruviana) fresco y en pulpa congelada a Canadá
… the plant location, it was determined that the ideal city is Paita (one of the cities of the department of Piura) considering key factors like proximity to raw materials, operating cost of seaports, closeness to the seaport, among others. About the project engineering, the production process of …
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Filarete's Body: Unpacking the Pregnancy Analogy in the Renaissance Patronage Context
… about the design and construction of an ideal city. Despite its miscellaneous aspects embedded in the book, which differentiates it significantly from the architectural treatises belong to the Western cannon, the author stresses his role as an architect, and proposes an unprecedent …
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New towns from gowns : urban form and placemaking at college campuses
… The "college town" -a quintessentially American ideal city formcan provide a very high quality of life, both for students of college-age and for faculty, alumni, and retirees who choose to live in these towns. But what if the existing town falls short? In recent years, several universities in …
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Enclave : testing city for Korean reunification
The city is a form which not only reflects, but also builds social relations. The forms of the city and the types of architecture in the city have been used as tools to lead and stimulate societies toward certain utopias. Then, how can the form of the city and architecture be a tool through which …
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From Heaven on Earth to Smart Cities: How Utopianism Shifted from Social Structures to Digital Built Environments in the 21st Century
… the early 21st century, the concept of a digital city began to be connected to utopian ideas. Smart city, sustainable city,15-minute city, and many more city forms use "utopian" as an adjective. However, there has been limited research into the utopian features of ideal cities and societies that …
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Power and Punishment: Architecture and Violence in the Italian Renaissance
… challenges this narrative, reexamining the city, architecture, and architectural spaces across the complex milieu of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, starting with the concept of the ‘ideal’ city. The most truthful prescription of the paragon city is found in the combined text and images …
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Il tema della città felice in Platone e al-Farabi, una lettura comparata di filosofia politica.
… questioni inerenti al tema della città ideale. Tra i temi in esame sono presenti: la definizione della felicità come scopo del governo ideale; l isomorfismo uomo / città / cosmo; il profilo del sovrano; il ruolo della legge e l analisi delle città devianti.
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The ideological construction of new urbanism in Melrose Arch : a critical analysis
… Johannesburg, including the development of the city centre and rise of the suburbs. Trends such as decentralisation and gentrification are also recognised and examined. A correlation is drawn between the Johannesburg of a few decades ago and the contemporary city to see how events and tendencies …
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"On Earth as It Is in Heaven?" The Creation of the Bastides of Southwest France
… ambition through the appropriation of European city names, most of them Spanish or Italian, many of which were developing new economic and political rights of their own that were allowing them to thrive. These included the Fueros de Valencia and the Liber Paradisus of Bologna, which targeted the …