Introduction Interaction between man-made environment and nature is necessary to attain sustainable development. In an urban setting, aesthetics is an essential requirement for humans, almost comparable to survival needs (Hemmati, 2016). Aesthetics in urban design may aid in building connected and coordinated urban growth that is built around mass public
Urban Art and it’s Context Urban Art includes, and stems from Graffiti and Street Art, and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas. Street Art has been associated with several different terms like “Independent Art”, “Post-Graffiti”, “Neo-Graffiti”, and “Guerrilla Art” and is an important counterculture movement that can
The article explores the influence of culture and societal believes on the design of buildings.
Cinema and Indian Urbanism Cities with its social complexities and vibrant environments have always inspired Indian Film-makers to draw inspiration from the narrative of cities and simultaneously portraying its changing urban scape through cinema. One can thus understand that cities and cinema are so deeply interconnected that the later can
At CultureHouse, we create spaces that defy norms. We often describe our community pop-ups as indoor public parks, communal living rooms, and third spaces. We do this because there is no clear parallel to existing infrastructure that exactly matches what our pop-ups encompass. In essence, our spaces are living examples
Cities and urban areas are the most represented types of heritage on the World Heritage List. World Heritage Cities are also among the World Heritage Properties that appear most often in state of conservation reports. Economic, social and political changes in recent years – globalization, multiplication of key players, decentralization,
This year would be Jane Jacob’s 100th birthday, and what better to celebrate the memory of this incredible woman than walking along the very streets she helped fight to protect in New York City. This champion of everyday social life in public space and her de facto anthropological observations of
