http://www.paper-cloud.net/archive/tags/waterfront/ Recent content in Waterfront on Paper-cloud - Gerbert's archive of writings Hugo -- gohugo.io en Gerbert Verheij Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.paper-cloud.net/archive/post/2017-aesthetic-of-lisbon-phd-thesis/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.paper-cloud.net/archive/post/2017-aesthetic-of-lisbon-phd-thesis/ My PhD thesis. Follows the abstract, the thesis can be read in its entirety here. This study tries to tackle the notion of “urban aesthetics” as it was articulated throughout the first three decades of the 20th century in Portuguese writing on the city, and practised in different forms of spatial production. A diffuse vocabulary – estética urbana, estética citadina, estética da cidade, das edificações, da rua … – signals a persistent understanding of the city as a work of art, both in the way it was experienced – an “urban aesthetic” – and contrived – an “urban aesthetics.