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| BUENOS AIRES |
A very good friend of mine, Gil Castle
just launched his new website, CitiesBeautiful.org, and would love to have you
take a look. At CitiesBeautiful.org you will find
free, interactive maps of hundreds of beautiful features of cities around
the world. Every feature has been categorized using a glossary
of 15 civic beauty terms. Gil developed the glossary by looking
for common threads among the theories of beauty of aesthetic philosophers,
architects, city planners, and related disciplines from the Ancient Greeks up
to the present.
Since “beauty is in the eye of the
beholder,” the website also has a short psychometric questionnaire (somewhat
like a Myers Briggs personality assessment test) with which you
can discover your preferences among 15 classifications. You can
then use your test results to prioritize the beautiful features of cities
that you visit, both virtually at the website and in your future travels.
Gil will be doing statistical
analyses of the responses to the psychometric questionnaire, as part of a book he
is writing on the nature of civic beauty – so the more people who take
the test, the better. Thanks for checking it out.
