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Pelosi, Ana Cristina, Heloísa Pedroso de Moraes Feltes, and Lynne Cameron. "Urban violence in Brazil and the role of the media." Metaphor and the Social World 4, no. 1 (May 5, 2014): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.4.1.02pel.

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This paper reports on analyses of data gathered from discourse interactions of two focus groups of Brazilian university students (n = 11) as they talk about urban violence in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. The analytical procedure follows Cameron et al.’s (2009) metaphor-led discourse analysis which focuses on the role metaphor vehicles play in the emergence of systematic metaphors in discourse. The findings highlight the trivialization of violence in Brazil by the media/TV, evidenced by the emergence in the talk of three related systematic metaphors: violence is a product manufactured by the media, violence is a spreading contagious disease and fear as a response to violence is a form of imprisonment.

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Vicenzotti, Vera. "Mapping Multivalent Metaphors: Analyzing the Wildnis Metaphor in the Zwischenstadt Discourse in Terms of Political Worldviews." Nature and Culture 8, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 162–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2013.080203.

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This article presents an approach to mapping multivalent metaphors, that is, metaphors that imply competing values. It suggests that a metaphor's interpretative repertoire can usefully be structured in terms of worldviews derived from political philosophies. To illustrate this approach, the article analyzes how Wildnis (wild nature) is used to refer to the Zwischenstadt (hybrid peri-urban landscapes) in German language planning discourse. It thus makes a contribution toward interpreting and structuring this discourse. After outlining the methodological framework, the article presents certain elements of the interpretative repertoire of Wildnis by outlining selected liberal, Romantic, and conservative interpretations of this metaphor. It then interprets actual statements by urban and landscape planners and designers, reconstructing how they refer to various political interpretations of Wildnis. Finally, it is argued that the approach can benefit planning practice by enhancing frame awareness and by allowing for a systematic analysis of the metaphor's blind spots.

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Pelosi, Ana Cristina, João Paulo Rodrigues Lima, and Pedro Henrique Sousa da Silva. "Metaphor as a dynamic complex emergence an analysis of the discourse of violence victims." Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa Série Ensaios 2, no. 35 (December 20, 2019): 57–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2358-3231.2019n35p57-73.

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Metaphor is here approached as a complex emergence which results from many internal and external factors such as those of a bio-psychological nature among others. Based on an embodied view which assumes that cognition results from "structural couplings that bring forth a world" (VARELA; THOMPSON; ROSCH,1993); it is assumed that socio-culturally shared beliefs, values and attitudes, individuals' life history, their affective and psychological states, besides embodied factors interact dynamically to cause metaphor emergencies to occur. Such metaphors might incorporate verbal language, gestures, body language etc. Having this view of metaphor as a basis, data gathered from three focal groups composed by volunteer violence victims are analysed. Findings from participants’ talks about ways they cope with the threat posed by urban violence, point to the emergence of several systematic metaphors. VIOLENCE IN FOOTBALL IS A REPELLING FORCE and UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT SOCIAL GROUPS IS SEEING THEM are the two systematic metaphors analysed here.

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Hadian, Amir Sasan. "Using Metaphor and Analogy for Understanding Structural Concepts in Architectural Education; an Iranian Perspective." Open House International 40, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2015-b0005.

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By using two cognitive tools, metaphors and analogies, structural concepts can be made more observable and touchable for architects. These tools can help architects and designers to physically demonstrate structural concepts for better understanding. Since familiarity with the structural concepts is imperative for architects, it is important to determine the extent in which architects sharpen and solidify their understanding of structural concept using two very valuable cognitive tools, metaphors and analogies. Although in recent years, the number of studies focusing on the usage of metaphor and analogy was on the rise, very few works have included views and opinions of correspondent users in the architectural domain. Furthermore, having both metaphor and analogy under one investigation could help the researcher to see which one, metaphor or analogy, professional architects prefer to use more and which one of them architects use in various stages in their design process. In this regard, purposive sampling was applied to collect the data from ten professional Iranian architects who had the experience of working in this domain for more than 10 years. The participants of this study went through a semi-structured interview and their reports were analysed qualitatively. The findings reveal that while designing, Iranian professional architects do not have any preferences because they can equally apply both metaphors and analogies, but when dealing with their students in academic setting, using metaphor as a cognitive tool can lead to better results. Furthermore, Iranian architects use metaphor more in the initial stages of the architectural design process because according to them this physiognomic perception enhance understanding of a design situation and stimulate creative solutions to the problem at hand. Conversely, analogy is mainly used in the concept generation phase.

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Furbey, Robert. "Urban ‘regeneration’: reflections on a metaphor." Critical Social Policy 19, no. 4 (November 1999): 419–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026101839901900401.

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Brown, Anthony L., Mary E. Dilworth, and Keffrelyn D. Brown. "Understanding the Black Teacher Through Metaphor." Urban Review 50, no. 2 (March 20, 2018): 284–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11256-018-0451-3.

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Ganis, M., J. Minnery, and D. Mateo-Babiano. "Masterplanning for urban change: a small world metaphor." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 8, no. 2 (May 22, 2013): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sdp-v8-n2-125-139.

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Gecas, Saulius. "BETWEEN SYMBOLISM AND METAPHOR." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 38, no. 4 (December 23, 2014): 283–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2014.999432.

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The article provides a discussion of symbolic aspects and uses of metaphors in Massimiliano Fuksas architecture. Despite of the fact that his architectural projects are very different they are sculptural and abstract leading to ambiguous reflections. The author argues that each architectural project of Massimiliano Fuksas can be related to certain metaphors and level of symbolisation. His metaphors are often metaphors for our feelings, they are emotionally understandable and yet not so easy to name. The article is an attempt to expose and analyze them.

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Vyšniūnas, Algis. "VILNIUS CITY – BETWEEN METAPHOR AND PRAGMATIZM." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 30, no. 4 (December 31, 2006): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/13921630.2006.10697077.

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Urban solutions in Vilnius were mostly of a practical rather than aestethical character. After World War II architects of urban design, whose activity used to change substantly historically settled cities, became more active. In Lithuania the conception of heritage developed gradually lagging behind dominating European tendencies; therefore, Vilnius city has been strongly influenced by individual creative works. The most obvious materialized conception of that kind is the idea of “architectural hills“. Currently this conception is widely criticized, and at the same time new restraints protecting the old town are set. These restraints often contradict the development of the city, which is inevitable bearing in mind the status of Vilnius city (the capital) and the size of administrated territory. Due to objective reasons political decisions and the activity of energetic private investors have a strong influence on the development of the city. In the chain an investor–administrator–professional there exists uneven proportion of participation thus spoiling the final result. The paper presents the main contradiction between the city development and heritage supporters and ways of solving it.

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Kamete, Amin Y. "Of good plants and useless weeds: Planning as a technology of the gardening state." Planning Theory 17, no. 2 (April 10, 2017): 253–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473095217701514.

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The article deploys Bauman’s metaphor of the ‘gardening’ state to consider the imbrication of planning and the dark side of modernity. It interrogates the public production and defence of urban spaces suitable for people deemed to have value. Using empirical material from urban Zimbabwe, I frame planning as a spatial technology of the gardening state and peer into its handling of informality under two main themes: first, the perception, construction and designation of ‘weeds’, and second, the declaration and treatment of the ‘weeds’. Situating Bauman’s metaphor in the nexus between planning, the state and informality, I conclude that the metaphor paints a helpful but inadequate picture. I argue that while the metaphor is helpful with regards to the first theme, refinements are needed in its application to the second. Rather than see planning enforcement as a rational-scientific practice, a nuanced conceptualisation is needed that explicitly acknowledges the messy business of politics.

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Konvitz, Josef W. "Commentary: Mexico City: Metaphor for the World's Urban Future." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 38, no. 2 (March 1996): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00139157.1996.9933456.

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Harring, Sidney L. "Urban history as metaphor: Buffalo history, old and new." Qualitative Sociology 8, no. 1 (1985): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00987016.

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Marcuse, Peter. "‘The city’ as perverse metaphor." City 9, no. 2 (July 2005): 247–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604810500197038.

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Slater, Terry R. "Morphology as metaphor: facts and fairy stories." Urban Morphology 23, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 168–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.51347/jum.v23i2.4663.

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BAXA, PAUL. "Piacentini's Window: The Modernism of the Fascist Master Plan of Rome." Contemporary European History 13, no. 1 (February 2004): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777303001449.

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When urban planners Marcello Piacentini and Antonio Muñoz looked at the Rome they helped create through their participation in the Master Plan of 1931, they saw a metaphor for Fascism's transformation of Rome, a metaphor that captured the ‘effect’ of the Master Plan but not its ‘intention’. The Fascist regime aimed to build a modern capital on the nineteenth-century models of Paris and Vienna, but created instead a modernist city which challenged, on many levels, the neo-classicist rationalism of the previous century's urban planning. This article explores the reasons for such a disjuncture between intention and effect and finds them within Fascist ideology and experience.

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Shishova, Ekaterina. "The atmosphere of urban spaces: from metaphor to description language." Zhurnal Sotsiologii i Sotsialnoy Antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology) 21, no. 4 (December 2018): 85–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2018.21.4.4.

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Neal, Zachary P. "Comparing urban sociology’s human ecology and community psychology’s ecological metaphor." Journal of Urban Affairs 42, no. 5 (December 19, 2019): 786–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2019.1691444.

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Wright, Jessica. "The Brain as Treasury and as Aqueduct." Studies in Late Antiquity 2, no. 4 (2018): 542–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sla.2018.2.4.542.

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In late antique theological texts, metaphors of the brain were useful tools for talking about forms of governance: cosmic, political, and domestic; failed and successful; interior discipline and social control. These metaphors were grounded in a common philosophical analogy between the body and the city, and were also supported by the ancient medical concept of the brain as the source of the sensory and motor nerves. Often the brain was imagined as a monarch or civic official, governing the body from the head as from an acropolis or royal house. This article examines two unconventional metaphors of the brain in the work of the fifth-century Greco-Syrian bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhus—the brain as a treasure within the acropolis, and the brain as a node in an urban aqueduct—both of which adapt the structural metaphor of governance to reflect the changing political and economic circumstances of imperial Christianity. Drawing upon medical theories of the brain, Theodoret expands upon the conventional governance metaphor of brain function to encompass the economic and the spiritual responsibilities of the bishop-administrator. Just as architectural structures (acropolis, aqueduct) contain and distribute valuable resources (treasure, water) within the city, so the brain accumulates and redistributes nourishing substances (marrow, blood, pneuma) within the body; and just as the brain functions as a site for the transformation of material resources (body) into spiritual goods (mind), so the bishop stands as a point of mediation between earthly wealth and the treasures of heaven.

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Buivydas, Rimantas. "FROM SYMBOLISM TO METAPHOR IN ARCHITECTURE." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 38, no. 4 (December 23, 2014): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2014.997592.

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Vásquez-Bustos, Víctor Patricio. "LA PROTESTA ES UNA GUERRA: un análisis de grafitis referidos a la protesta social en Chile desde la metáfora conceptual." Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura 32, no. 1 (June 2022): 173–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15443/rl3211.

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In October 2019, the so-called ‘social outbreak’ took place in Chile, a major socio-political conflict that led to an unprecedented constitutional change in the country. Under this context, the feminist movement takes on a prominent role, not only because of the massiveness of its demonstrations but also because of its influence on the achievement of gender parity in the constitutional process.The experiences of the protests were captured in the countless graffiti that have propagated in urban spaces since the social outbreak and which, even today, abound in certain areas. The aim of this study is to analyse the conceptual metaphors expressed in graffiti related to the Chilean protest. The methodology includes three instances of analysis: (1) the identification of linguistic metaphors; (2) their semantic-discursive grouping; and (3) the conceptual analysis of the established groups, in which the ‘Basic Scene’ (Rivano, 1999) component is considered. As a result, the conceptual metaphor PROTEST IS WAR is proposed, which conceptualises Chileans as warriors fighting against an enemy, represented by the political institutionality, the economic model and the patriarchal system. It is concluded that the established metaphor sets out a cognitive dichotomy that highlights the opposition between the participants in the Chilean social conflict and the demonstrators’ discomfort with the current system, emphasising its commitment and unity with the reasons to protest.

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Mankus, Martynas. "METAPHOR AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE: LITHUANIAN CASE / METAFORA KAIP POSTMODERNIZMO ARCHITEKTŪROS RAIŠKOS PRIEMONĖ. LIETUVOS ATVEJIS." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 36, no. 3 (October 9, 2012): 170–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2012.732486.

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The article tackles manifestations of metaphor seen as one of the most important instruments for creating significance and individuality in architecture; lays out the concept of metaphor in postmodern architecture which has elaborated and solidified it; and examines socio-cultural conditions of its origins. As the relation between metaphor and modernism is discussed, the intrinsic differences are identified highlighting the most pronounced stylistic features. It is implied that metaphor being transplanted to modern architecture remains an important tool for its communicative qualities. The analysis of manifestations of metaphorical aspect is based on architectural examples from Lithuania. Santrauka Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos vienos iš svarbiausių architektūros ženkliškumo ir savitumo kūrimo priemonių – metaforos – apraiškos. Analizuojama postmodernizmo architektūros, išplėtojusios ir įtvirtinusios metaforos terminą, samprata; apžvelgiamos jos atsiradimo sociokultūrinės prielaidos. Aptariant jos santykį su modernizmu, nurodomi tarpusavio skirtumai, išskiriami ryškiausi stiliaus bruožai. Charakterizuojant metaforos perkėlimą į architektūrą, daroma prielaida, kad dėl savo komunikacinių savybių ji išlieka svarbia priemone šiuolaikinėje architektūroje. Remiantis Lietuvos architektūros pavyzdžiais, nagrinėjamos metaforiškojo aspekto apraiškos.

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Jubas, Kaela, and Jackie Seidel. "Knitting as Metaphor for Work." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45, no. 1 (November 2, 2014): 60–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241614550200.

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Stampoulidis, Georgios. "Stories of resistance in Greek street Art: A cognitive-semiotic approach." Public Journal of Semiotics 8, no. 2 (September 23, 2019): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2018.8.19872.

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In line with cognitive semiotics, this paper suggests a synthetic account of the important but controversial notion of narrative (in street art, and more generally): one that distinguishes between three levels: (a) narration, (b) underlying story, and (c) frame-setting. The narrative potential of street art has not yet been considerably studied in order to offer insights into how underlying stories may be reconstructed from the audience and how different semiotic systems contribute to this. The analysis is mainly based on three contemporary street artworks and two political cartoons from the 1940s, involving the same frame-setting, which may be labeled as “Greece vs. Powerful Enemy.” The study is built on fieldwork research that was carried out during several periods in central Athens since 2014. The qualitative analyses with the help of insights from phenomenology show that single static images do not narrate stories themselves (primary narrativity), but rather presuppose such stories, which they can prompt or trigger (secondary narrativity). Notably, the significance of sedimented socio-cultural experience, collective memory and contextual knowledge that the audience must recruit in order to reconstruct the narrative potential through the process of secondary narrativity is stressed. Author BiographyGeorgios Stampoulidis, Centre for Language and Literature, Division for Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden Georgios Stampoulidis is a PhD candidate at the Division for Cognitive Semiotics at Lund University. His research interests are in the fields of polysemiotic communication and multimodality, narrative and metaphor, and urban creativity. His work focuses on street art as a cross-cultural medium of meaning-making, cultural production and political intervention in urban space, and thus, he has previously conducted fieldwork in Athens, Greece. His most recent publications are “A Cognitive Semiotic Exploration of Metaphors in Greek Street Art” (Cognitive Semiotics, 2019) and “Urban Creativity in Abandoned Places. Xenia Hotels Project, Greece” (Nuart Journal, 2019). Currently, he is research fellow at Urban Creativity Lund and Scandinavian Metaphor networks.

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Yglesias, Caren. "To Build a Metaphor: L’Enfant’s Design for the City of Washington." Journal of Planning History 18, no. 3 (September 23, 2018): 172–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513218798346.

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Recent scholarship provides evidence for reconsidering the original urban plan for Washington, DC, one of the world’s few planned cities. Commissioned by President George Washington in 1791, Pierre L’Enfant did not, as some scholarship claims, simply follow baroque urban design concepts with associated geometric patterns for his design. Rather, the character of the land guided the location of public squares, each for a state with a “reciprocity of sight” along communicating avenues. L’Enfant conceived of these individual but visually linked state districts as a metaphor that demonstrated a new nation’s ideals of independence and unity in built form.

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Van der Walt, Christa. "Where are the new languages?" Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices 1, no. 1 (October 15, 2020): 125–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jmtp.17094.

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The use of the ecology metaphor is widespread in language studies, particularly in discussions about language policy and planning and minority language maintenance. Attributed to Haugen (1972), the metaphor emphasises the context in which languages are used, providing a holistic view of language and communication practices in a particular environment. Some authors link language diversity explicitly to environmental protection, noting that biodiversity coincides with language diversity (Krauss, 1992; Nettle and Romaine, 2000; Skutnab-Kangas, Maffi, and Harmon, 2003). The ecology metaphor seems to be linked mainly to the conservation of minoritized languages. In this article the argument is put forward that we need to recognise the limits of this metaphor where newly emerging languages are concerned. The implicit metaphor in the term ‘language ecology’ depends on an understanding of the natural world, so it can be argued that just as new species and new habitats are being discovered in the natural world, new languages should be acknowledged as part of the language landscape. Using the example of Sepitori and other urban varieties in South Africa, the article supports the recognition of newly emerging languages because it has important implications for education and for the potential of translanguaging classroom practices.

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Elder, G. S., L. Knopp, and M. Brown. "Review Symposium: George Chauncey's Gay New York." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 14, no. 6 (December 1996): 755–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d140755.

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Gay New York is an historical analysis of urban culture and the making of the Gay Male World between 1890 and 1940. As a study of urban social history this is an important work for urban geographers. Three geographers review the text from somewhat different geographical perspectives. Elder focuses on the scale of Chauncey's work. Knopp examines Chauncey's links between class, gender, and space. Brown employs the concepts of metaphor and metonym to argue that Gay New York is a ‘closet geography’.

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Stone, Clarence N. "School Reform and the Ecology-Of-Games Metaphor." Journal of Urban Affairs 17, no. 3 (October 1995): 303–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.1995.tb00350.x.

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Andrés Moncayo, José Manuel de. "El lenguaje orgánico de Arturo Soria: antecedente de una ecología de la ciudad = The organic language of Arturo Soria: the antecedent of ecological urban planning." Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, no. 10 (December 30, 2020): 80–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.20868/cpa.2020.10.4564.

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ResumenEntre 1881 y 1883 Arturo Soria y Mata publicó una serie de artículos de temática urbana en el diario El Progreso en los que exponía los rudimentos de su teoría urbana y esbozaba su propuesta de Ciudad Lineal. En estos primeros escritos de Soria subyace una visión orgánica de los fenómenos urbanos que integra los procesos de consumo de materia y energía necesarios para el desarrollo de la vida urbana en un concepto a la vez único y complejo de ciudad. El desarrollo de esta metáfora orgánica conlleva para Soria y Mata el reconocimiento del metabolismo urbano como lugar de oportunidad y proyecto para la mejora de las condiciones de vida. El paralelismo entre organismo urbano y cuerpo humano es la clave de esta metodología operativa mediante la que el autor concibe avanzados sistemas de abastecimiento, comunicaciones o recogida de deshechos basados en el potencial de las nuevas tecnologías para organizar y mejorar las ciudades de su tiempo. De esta visión nacerá su propuesta definitiva de crecimiento urbano, la Ciudad Lineal, llamada a establecer una red residencial que conectará los núcleos de las ciudades existentes preservados como centros de negocios y disfrute. El pensamiento orgánico de Soria es un antecedente histórico relevante para la consolidación de una ecología urbana. Su estudio y reivindicación aspira a reconciliar los retos y aspiraciones urbanas contemporáneas con un capítulo menospreciado de los fundamentos del urbanismo moderno.AbstractBetween 1881 and 1883, Arturo Soria y Mata published a series of articles on urban issues in the newspaper El Progreso, in which he exposed the roots of his urban theory and outlined his proposal for a Linear City. In these first writings, the organic vision of the urban phenomena developed by Soria integrates the processes of consumption of matter and energy necessary for urban life in a concept of the city that is both unique and complex. The development of this organic metaphor entails the recognition of urban metabolism as an opportunity for improving living conditions. The parallelism between the urban organism and the human body is the key of this operational methodology, through which the author conceives advanced supply, communications or waste collection systems based on the potential of new technologies to organize and improve the cities of his time. It was from this vision that his definitive proposal for urban growth was born, the Linear City, which was fated to establish a residential network that connected the core of the existing cities, preserved as business and leisure centers. Soria’s organic thinking is an important historical precedent to the consolidation of an urban ecology. The purpose of studying and advocating it is to reconcile contemporary urban challenges and aspirations with an underrated chapter of the foundations of modern urban theory.

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Larripa Artieda, Víctor. "FRONTÓN RECOLETOS: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA METÁFORA." Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, no. 8 (2013): 72–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2013.i8.05.

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Cross, Beverly E. "Urban School Achievement Gap as a Metaphor to Conceal U.S. Apartheid Education." Theory Into Practice 46, no. 3 (July 18, 2007): 247–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00405840701402299.

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Billingham, Chase. "Parental choice, neighbourhood schools, and the market metaphor in urban education reform." Urban Studies 52, no. 4 (March 27, 2014): 685–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098014528395.

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Hassan, Noor Hasharina, Gabriel Yit Vui Yong, Izni Azrein Noor Azalie, and Norzurianie Kamarulzaman. "Urban Tapestry." International Journal of Environment, Architecture, and Societies 2, no. 2 (August 31, 2022): 109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/ijeas.2022.2.2.109-121.

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Shophouses are essential elements of the urbanscape. However, the rate at which they are developed and neglected in Brunei has given rise to various problems in commercial areas, which undermines sustainability. While commercial areas are places with unique characteristics created as a consequence of the interaction between people and the environment, they tend to be inconspicuous to outsiders, including authorities and planners. This paper proposes a way to elucidate the genius loci of a site using urban tapestry as an analytical model rather than just a metaphor. The Menglait commercial area (MCA) was used as a case to illustrate this method. The MCA tapestry depicts a place for the common people to fix their automobile issues and quick social-business meet-ups. Its threads could be traced to the area’s early development, interweaving national development programs with the introduction of the automobile, the Chinese diaspora, and the development of the oil industry. Traditionally, shophouses, which were functional and ecological in design, have become wasteful in their modern form due to changing urban realities. Concerning the MCA, its apparent decline could be revealed through the tapestry method. Planned rejuvenation of the area would have obliterated existing features, structures, and knowledge that have essential values to enhance its resilience as a commercial area. The utility of our tapestry method is in the conservation of the genius loci of an area when integrated into the standard urban planning process.

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Hassan, Noor Hasharina, Gabriel Yit Vui Yong, Izni Azrein Noor Azalie, and Norzurianie Kamarulzaman. "Urban Tapestry." International Journal of Environment, Architecture, and Societies 2, no. 02 (August 31, 2022): 109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/ijeas.2022.2.02.109-121.

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Shophouses are essential elements of the urbanscape. However, the rate at which they are developed and neglected in Brunei has given rise to various problems in commercial areas, which undermines sustainability. While commercial areas are places with unique characteristics created as a consequence of the interaction between people and the environment, they tend to be inconspicuous to outsiders, including authorities and planners. This paper proposes a way to elucidate the genius loci of a site using urban tapestry as an analytical model rather than just a metaphor. The Menglait commercial area (MCA) was used as a case to illustrate this method. The MCA tapestry depicts a place for the common people to fix their automobile issues and quick social-business meet-ups. Its threads could be traced to the area’s early development, interweaving national development programs with the introduction of the automobile, the Chinese diaspora, and the development of the oil industry. Traditionally, shophouses, which were functional and ecological in design, have become wasteful in their modern form due to changing urban realities. Concerning the MCA, its apparent decline could be revealed through the tapestry method. Planned rejuvenation of the area would have obliterated existing features, structures, and knowledge that have essential values to enhance its resilience as a commercial area. The utility of our tapestry method is in the conservation of the genius loci of an area when integrated into the standard urban planning process.

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Bou, Enric. "«Temeritats enlluernadores»: La ciutat en la poesia de Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel." SCRIPTA. Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna 5, no. 5 (June 12, 2015): 265. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/scripta.5.6389.

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Resum: La poesia de Rosselló-Pòrcel és una obra de dimensió limitada, però d’una gran diversitat. En els últims anys s’ha estudiat amb precisió la presència d’un llegat postsimbolista. En aquest article s’analitza un aspecte menystingut: el sentit de la presència de mons urbans en la poesia de Rosselló-Pòrcel. El poeta experimenta amb un nou concepte de la metàfora i incorpora els elements que componen l'escenari urbà nomenats amb ajuda d'un lèxic despullat del tabú del prosaisme. L’adjectivació, a més, farà possible unir l'experiència del que és descriptiu amb la desrealització de l'objecte contemplat. L’anàlisi detinguda de tres poemes complementa la reflexió. Paraules clau: Poesia urbana, postsimbolisme Abstract: Rosselló-Pòrcel’s poetry is a work of limited extension, but of great diversity. In recent years critics have studied with precision the presence of a post-symbolist legacy. In this article I take a look at an undervalued aspect of it: the meaning and uses of urban worlds in his poetry. The poet experimented with a new concept of metaphor and incorporates elements from the urban scene using a lexicon that includes prosaic elements. Adjectives make possible the combination of description with object contemplation. The thorough analysis of three poems completes the re-evaluation. Keywords: Poetry City PostSymbolism

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Szczepkowska, Ewa. "TEMATYKA KULINARNA W POLSKIEJ WSPÓŁCZESNEJ POPULARNEJ PROZIE KOBIECEJ." Acta Neophilologica 1, no. XIX (June 1, 2017): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/an.687.

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This article concerns culinary motifs found in popular women’s fiction at the turnof the 20th and 21st centuries. Women’s fiction is either indifferent to culinary topicsor interested in them as a theme, metaphor or recipe. Culinary topics as the main themeappear in novels written by Kalicińska, Enerlich, and Ficner-Ogonowska. I. Sowa employsa culinary code as a metaphor for contemporary urban life style which is marked byconsumerism, excess of consumer goods and an intense rivalry. Kalicińska’s novel cycleis an example of downshifting narratives appreciated by some feminists as a way topromote ecology and a women’s community. Culinary novels authored by Enerlich andOgonowska do not popularize the culinary culture, but rather commercialize it.

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Harris, Neil. "Practice Through a Lens: A Metaphor for Planning Theory." Journal of Planning Education and Research 19, no. 3 (March 2000): 309–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x0001900310.

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Sandercock, Leonie. "Voices from the Borderlands: A Meditation on a Metaphor." Journal of Planning Education and Research 14, no. 2 (January 1995): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x9501400201.

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Liu, Catherine. "The Wall, the Window and the Alcove: Visualizing Privacy." Surveillance & Society 9, no. 1/2 (November 30, 2011): 203–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v9i1/2.4101.

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This papers is an investigation of metaphors and images of walls, most recently made of fire and of code. By extension, the interruption or disruption of the wall, whether as light-giving window or shelter-providing alcove give conceptual form and shape to the theoretical/historical cluster of concepts that support notions of security and autonomy have become indispensable to explorations of the value of privacy and private life. In presenting a series of imaginary spaces where private and public spheres were thought to converge and/or collide, I hope to show that transparency as a political value defended by liberal democracies functions on the basis of a powerful visual and fundamentally spatial metaphor: the window. Privacy is penetrated and protected on the other hand by the architectural construction of an alcove. Cultural relativism does not allow us to avoid the legal, political and social problems that individuals and lawmakers are confronting nations, societies and individuals in the wake of data gathering technologies (Humphreys 2011). The window and the alcove are simple, even primitive elements of built environments, but they are figures for porosity and protection upon which we might be able to construct analogical and theoretical relationships between different times and different cultures.

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Johnson, Shelly. "Pandemics and Urban Child Survival: Pulling Together in the Adoption Canoe." First Peoples Child & Family Review 10, no. 1 (May 12, 2021): 52–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1077182ar.

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This article tells an intergenerational narrative about how historical pandemics and family adoptions stories can influence urban Indigenous custom adoption practices, policies, teaching and research. It uses the seven principles of Archibald’s (2008) storywork to link the importance of knowing our own family histories, and how those historical, cultural and current contexts can be a force to advocate, influence, research and teach for change. The “canoe” is a metaphor for re-conceptualizing adoption narratives, and emphasizes the idea of an “adoption journey” or a shared learning process.

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Leclercq, Romain. "How Does Water Behave? Unstable Milieu and Stable Agencements in Dakar’s Flooded Suburbs." Urban Planning 7, no. 1 (January 11, 2022): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i1.4353.

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In the suburbs of Dakar, matter as a flux is not a metaphor anymore, but a concrete process of city fluidification, disintegration, or solidification. Indeed, the city has been concerned for more than 30 years by regular floods that were established permanently in some districts. Drawing from an assemblage perspective, this article aims to understand how people deal with untamed waters in flooded neighbourhoods and at the city scale. It also raises questions about how we can capture the processes of production, maintenance, and disintegration of cities by identifying stable forms of assemblages and by comparing them according to the specific action that they support.

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May, Melody. "It’s kind of a funny story: Using comedy to articulate pain." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 10, no. 1 (December 1, 2021): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00038_1.

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Stories of pain stretch metaphors and similes. They infuse verbs into the narrative: stab, pulse and ache. While all of these may create a reference point in a listener’s mind, a sufferer may never be able to communicate the reality of pain’s hold on her body. And when there is no evidence ‐ no bleeding wound to strike a visual connection, for instance ‐ the metaphor can disappear completely. With its disappearance goes the possibility of connection. And when the pain does not go, the sufferer may begin to doubt the validity of her own body. This leads the sufferer of chronic illness into another indescribable void: isolation. However, storytellers can provide a voice for the invisible and create conversations that change cultural perceptions that perpetuate marginalization. This article argues that an effective genre to undertake on this task is comedy, and discusses the work of Jenny Lawson.

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Gamal Said, Noha. "Temporal Sections Conceptual Tool: Articulating Space and Time in Representing Urban Ambiances." SHS Web of Conferences 64 (2019): 01014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196401014.

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This article aims to present a new methodological protocol and a representation tool that articulates both space and time in understanding urban ambiances: temporal sections. The elaboration of this conceptual tool is based on a theoretical background dealing with the palimpsest of urban ambiances. The urban palimpsest is a metaphor underlying the dynamic of the formation process of the territory resulting from a temporal, spatial and social stratification that manifests in the lived experience. Combining urban transect, a geographical tool, and stratigraphy, a geological one, temporal sections represent the sensory experience as a palimpsest that integrates the different pasts and projects on the future. This tool provides a very specific way of immersion and opens new realm in constructing a storytelling; it proposes a rereading and writing the ambiance in depth.

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Martinez, Francisco. "The Invisible City: Exploring the Third Something of Urban Life." Culture Unbound 6, no. 3 (June 17, 2014): 647–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146647.

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With this article I intend to contribute to the debate about how to study urban life. Firstly, I argue for the relevance of invisible and silent aspects of cities and inbetween sutures, which I understand to mean a third ’something’ beyond forms and flows. Secondly, I explore several examples and draw on arguments from Wittgenstein and Lefebvre to frame this hypothesis. Thirdly, I use the chess game as a metaphor to illustrate the multiplicity and unpredictability of engagements of urban life. Finnally, I propose to approach cities in an open-ended and ordinary way, paying attention to dialectically interconnected processes and the particular conditions of possibility for knowledge.

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Marshall, David J., Lynn A. Staeheli, Dima Smaira, and Konstantin Kastrissianakis. "Narrating palimpsestic spaces." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 5 (February 20, 2017): 1163–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17690531.

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The term ‘palimpsest’ refers to medieval manuscripts that have been multiply erased and inscribed with the overlapping texts of successive scribes. More recently and amongst academics, the term has become a metaphor for describing the city, including both the physical urban form as well as memories and experiences of everyday urban life. The palimpsest offers a way of thinking not only about urban transformation, where new and repurposed structures exist alongside the old, but also changes in how the city is experienced, or how life stories are written upon and rewrite existing spaces. This paper focuses on the latter. Though the palimpsest metaphor has been used to describe material transformations of the urban, the question that this paper raises is: how can the notion of the palimpsest inform methodological approaches to researching how the city is lived and seen? Collaborative, digital storytelling that combines images, narration, and sound can provide a method that emphasises the polyvocality and multi-temporality that the term palimpsest implies. A palimpsestic approach to digital storytelling, as a visual and narrative method, gestures at places as open to future readings and inscriptions. This is relevant to all cities, but perhaps most obviously in cities where historical narratives, memories of violence, and questions over the future political direction of the country in which the city is located are all highly contested. To illustrate these points, this paper draws upon research conducted with young people in Beirut, Lebanon as part of a wider study about how youth experience citizenship and belonging in divided societies.

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Hasegawa, Shiho. "A study of the biological concept in architectural thought: A comparison between 'Der raum als membran' (1926) and 'Metabolism' (1960)." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 11, no. 3 (2019): 427–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1903427h.

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This study analyzes the biological influence on the architecture in the 20th century by focusing on two particular biological architectural thought; "Der Raum als Membran (Space as Membrane)" by Siegfried Ebeling in 1926 and "Metabolism" by a group of Japanese architects in 1960. First, I discuss "Der Raum als Membran". Ebeling saw architecture or space as a biological membrane, like skin or a cell, and he proposed a theory of biological architecture. He not only introduced into planning an environment this biological metaphor with its flexibility of a membrane but also incorporated a biological concept like Umwelt. Second, I investigate a manifesto by the name of "Metabolism", which was produced in 1960 by a group of Japanese architects. They thought buildings and urban designs had an existence and underwent metabolism, which is a basic function of living things, and proposed variable and proliferate architectures having dynamic time spans. By comparing these biological architectural concepts, I point out three main similarities: 1) the expansion of the biological concept into architecture; 2) the cell as a metaphor; and 3) dynamic buildings or urban design. Although the authors had different backgrounds, all of them introduced new architectural ideas in their own times.

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Jensen, Ole B. "New ‘Foucauldian Boomerangs’: Drones and Urban Surveillance." Surveillance & Society 14, no. 1 (May 9, 2016): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v14i1.5498.

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This paper uses the metaphor of ‘boomerangs’ articulated by Michel Foucault to discuss the potential for drones to become the ‘next layer’ of urban surveillance in our cities. Like earlier Western technologies and techniques of government that were ‘tested out’ in foreign warzones and then ‘brought back’ to urban centres (the helicopter and its utilization in Vietnam and its return to urban police forces is a clear illustration hereof), contemporary unmanned aerial vehicles hold the potential to act as proverbial ‘Foucauldian boomerangs’ and return from warzones in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan to Western cities. The paper explores how a nexus of Surveillance Studies and mobilities research may be a fruitful way into comprehending this new phenomenon. En route the practical applications of drones as well as the historical importance of aerial power are connected to a situational understanding of mobilities. The paper points at a number of challenges for the future and should be understood as a first tentative attempt to set this on the research agenda.

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Cianfarani, Francesco, and Tiziana Proietti. "Metaphor and Representation: Eastern German Cities and the Contemporary Transformation of the Urban Form." International Journal of the Constructed Environment 3, no. 4 (2013): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2154-8587/cgp/v03i04/37400.

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Vicenzotti, Vera, and Ludwig Trepl. "City as Wilderness: The Wilderness Metaphor from Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl to Contemporary Urban Designers." Landscape Research 34, no. 4 (July 15, 2009): 379–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426390903019841.

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Zhou, Ruth D. H., Marcus Y. L. Chiu, and Wing-Yip Chui. "Development and Validation of the Marital Metaphor Questionnaire (MMQ-10) for Urban Chinese Women." Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 43, no. 1 (July 20, 2016): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12181.

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Evans, Richard William. "‘The footage is decisive’: Applying the thinking of Marshall McLuhan to CCTV and police misconduct." Surveillance & Society 13, no. 2 (July 2, 2015): 218–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v13i2.5298.

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This article adapts Marshall McLuhan’s writings on mass media to ubiquitous and universal surveillance systems, looking at surveillance as media. The term ‘broadcast media’ is derived from an agricultural metaphor, a technique of planting. I argue that CCTV systems are an inversion of broadcasting: ‘harvest media’. Drawing on three case studies in which CCTV has been relevant to allegations of police misconduct, I explore how harvest media impacts on cultural and legal perceptions of evidence, truth and deniability.

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