Search results for: URBAN ARTIFACTS

• Politics and urban artifacts in cities: what are they and how are they interconected?

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  • S. Abbasi
  • J. Martyniuk-Pęczek

  - Przestrzeń Ekonomia Społeczeństwo - Year 2020

  This research, analyses the effect of politics on a city and its image, via their control over the formation or changes on urban artifacts. It analyses the concepts introduced in Aldo Rossi’s architectural monograph, The Architecture of the City, in the chapter titled ‘Politics as Choice’, and his idea that a city’s image is a reflection of its political institutions and the choices people in authority make. Monuments and architecture...

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• Public art in the era of urban transformations. A case study of Eduardo Paolozzi’s artistic output in Edinburgh and in London

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  • B. Kołakowska
  • B. Konarzewska

  - Przestrzeń i Forma - Year 2020

  Urban space dedicated to cultural life, entertainment or business is currently exposed to dynamic urbanistic transformations. Monumental works of art within the boundaries of cities, for years embedded in the urban landscape and awareness of viewers, are moved to other places or even destroyed. Decisions about a change of their location and context, which are fundamental aspects for the impression made by a given work of art, cause...

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