Lazarević, Eva Vaništa and Marić, Jelena and Djukić, Aleksandra (2025) An Interplay of Aesthetically-Urban, Aesthetically-Spiritual and Social Responsibility Aspects in Urban Regeneration. URBAN INNOVATION: TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO CITIES HAVE GONE BEFORE. Medium sized cities and towns as a major arena of global urbanisation. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2025, 30th Intl. Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 127-132. ISSN 2521-3938
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Abstract
The focal point of this analysis would be an attempt to evaluate the role of beauty in architecture, for example, how and to what extent it could be related to a feeling of happiness during the urban regeneration process. One of the hypotheses concerns the importance of beauty in architecture through its significance and influence in a spiritual way. Beauty, it seems, encompasses, as an indivisible part, the notions of happiness, fulfilment, and pleasure in the widest possible sense. Some important historical sources approach the otherwise insufficiently researched question of beauty in a spiritual way. It started with Thomas Aquinas, back in the 13th Century. His preliminary ideas of spiritual beauty are recomposed and transposed for our modern times by the unsurpassed author Umberto Eco. They both presented an emotional and intellectual journey towards a better understanding of a model of beauty. We could say, those references should represent a role model for all of us, thoughtful architects, advanced-thinking urbanists, and city planners. Those who need primarily to think and observe to analyze, synthesize, and find a final model through harmonizing different inputs. We are mostly exhilarated and touched by the so-called model of moral beauty (or the opposite: shaken by moral ugliness). The public could be petrified of assertive designers and architects all the way to corrupted regime(s). They could spoil one’s view, happiness, etc. through their bad models: facades without proportion or even complexes without any sense, spoil the environment, but also spoil entire streets, area and therefore destroy an image, a setting of the whole city. Moral ugliness is somehow connected not only to general poverty but also to corrupted society. Meddling with planning rules and regulations could put decent architects out of the system and unscrupulous ones push forward. One can speculate that Investors in societies without rules (or rules and regulations are there but not being followed) have enormous greediness for profit and will do anything to achieve their goals. Therefore, to battle moral ugliness, or to reach happiness under the frame of beauty, or moral beauty, we have to follow important steps.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | urban regeneration, moral beauty, moral ugliness, corrupt society, responsibility |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
| Depositing User: | REAL CORP Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2025 08:45 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2025 08:45 |
| URI: | http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1158 |
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