Paisagens Catóptricas: espelhos e aberrações em metrópoles investiga, por meio de ensaios visuais e considerações teóricas, alguns aspectos da força poética da cidade refletida nela mesma enquanto particularidade da paisagem. Nos ensaios visuais, elaborados a partir de registros fotográficos de superfícies reflexivas paulistanas ao longo de 2018, as imagens especulares transmutam- se em impressas por meio da cianotipia e do marrom Van Dyke - ambos decalques fotográficos monocromáticos. A conjugação das imagens opera uma cartografia traçada em derivas pela cidade na busca por espelhamentos insólitos, por aberrações sugestivas de nexos entre o imaginário e a catóptrica, sendo esta a parte da Óptica que estuda espelhos. O conjunto de imagens se inscreve na noção de paisagem como representação cultural informada pela pintura e delimita o campo para a discussão dos procedimentos adotados na confecção das próprias imagens. Os ensaios visuais também orientam as pesquisas sobre referências teóricas que relacionam o espelho à literatura e às artes visuais, repertório que retroage em benefício da invenção continuada das imagens, à medida que aguça o olhar artializador dirigido à cidade. São também apresentados parâmetros para a discussão das instâncias in visu e in situ do que aqui se define como paisagem catóptrica, ou seja, imagens especulares da cidade visíveis em superfícies reflexivas delimitadas da própria cidade. / Catoptric landscapes: mirrors and aberrations in metropolis investigates, through visual essays and theoretical considerations, some aspects of the poetic force of the city in-itself reflected as a particularity of the landscape. In these essays, constructed upon photographic records of São Paulo reflective surfaces throughout the year of 2018, the specular images transmute themselves into print images by means of cyanotype and of van Dyke brown - both monochromatic photographic decals. The images\' conjugation operates a cartography drawn in drifts around the city, pursuing some unusual mirroring and suggestive aberrations of nexus between the imaginary and the Catoptrica - herein the part of the Optics that studies mirrors. This set of images are under the notion of landscape as cultural representation informed by painting and bounds the field for the discussion of the adopted procedures in the making of the same images. The visual essays also guide the research on theoretical references that relate the mirror to literature and the visual arts, a repertoire that acts in the benefit of the continuous invention of the images by sharpening the artialising look towards the city. Some parameters are also presented, in a way to enable the discussion of the in visu and in situ instances of what herein is defined as catoptric landscape, that is, specular city images visible on delimited reflective surfaces of the city itself.

Rapid urbanization, which is one of the major problems of contemporary era, created cities as the major destroying centers of nature and ecology by human beings. In this respect, urban agriculture takes place in urban areas as a new way to meet nature and urban for improving the quality of life in the last decades. Despite the belief that agricultural activities always take place in rural areas, agriculture in urban areas would provide citizens many opportunities in terms of social, economic and environmental aspects. This study aims to identify the notions of urban agriculture, and to investigate its economic, social and environmental impacts by exemplifying the different practices around world. It focuses on Black Sea Towns of Turkey in the case of Rize where agriculture is occupied in important parts of urban and rural areas. Unique features of agriculture in urban areas as they differ from other implementations in the world are examined. In this thesis, UA is considered as socio-economic and townscape value in the city. In the case of Rize, urban agriculture appears as an indispensable part of social life that bears the imprint of rural background of the cities.

With the postmodern prevalence of shopping as both a recreational and subsistence activity, social class identity is increasingly constituted around access to the landscape of consumption. U.S. middle-class identity is normalized in commercial spaces and the exclusion of the lower-class from these spaces perpetuates wider social disparities. For socially aware members of the middle-class, distinction may be achieved by selectively shopping throughout the metropolitan area with the goal of influencing corporate practices. Yet this distinction is not without cost as middle-class shoppers are prime targets of identity marketing schemes and of the neoliberal regime’s construction of consent. Through 15 self-proclaimed middle-class shoppers’ reported use of Atlanta’s postmodern landscape of consumption, this study focuses on performances of middle-classness and representations of commercialized spaces with the goal of furthering the anthropological understanding of class identity and urban space as heterogeneous.

Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-78).

All throughout the 1911 century, the city of Athens manifest a distinct character that was inspired by its history. Flourishing with Neoclassical civic architecture, it remained a modest metropolis that was planned to function harmoniously around its ancient monuments. Today in the 21st century, its landscape has undergone a radical transformation. The city has expanded uncontrollably to accommodate an ever-increasing inflow of urban migration, accumulating one half of the nation's entire population within a confined geological space. Athens has become a product of cataclysmic urban growth. Furthermore, the ancient city is becoming increasingly anonymous, sprawling, with a landscape that is subjected to dominant economic trends. My photographic work for this practice led Ph. D. critically examines the ways in which development has made an impact on the Athenian landscape, altering its physiognomy. My research draws together Eugene Atget's documentation of the city of Paris, in conjunction to Walter Benjamin's criticism of modernity to demonstrate how capitalism produced a destructive effect on culture and a loss of history to society at large. In addition, I investigate the documentary value of the work by contemporary photographer Andreas Gursky to establish the character of our own modern age, and to create a critical image of the city and its landscape in the photographs of my work. Throughout my research, l consider how Atget, Benjamin as well asGursky utilise the aesthetic of the photographic document as a model for generating a criticism of society, new ways of perceiving the world, in addition to generating a sense of historical awareness for the observer of their work. Through particular subjects such as the industry of property development, tourism, as well as others, I explore how Athens has lost the inherent connection with its history and the cultural heritage that it is simultaneously trying to promote. Juxtaposing Athens with Old Paris, I consider how the historic parts of the city become destroyed in the interest of urban development, and argue that the present chaotic appearance of city is not only the product of its modern history, but also the outcome of capitalism as a world historic condition of our time

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Local governments in Melbourne are rethinking the design of parks with the aim of increasing water efficiency. In changing park design to achieve this objective, community landscape aesthetic expectations need also to be considered if these changes are to be socially acceptable. Using a psychophysical approach of landscape assessment, this thesis examines the relationship between public perceptions of park environments in Melbourne and water consumption. The thesis first develops a perceptual classification of a sample of landscapes found in Melbourne’s urban park system. Secondly, it investigates the meanings, perceptions and aesthetic and general preferences the public associate with these park landscapes. Thirdly, it estimates the relative water-use of landscape plantings associated with these park landscapes. Finally, it develops a systematic approach to balancing the public aesthetic expectations and water-use in urban parks. (For complete abstract open document)