Эстетическая выразительность города

Of the many cities where modern dynamic life takes a person, only a few remain in his visual memory. As a rule, these are those cities where something struck the imagination with its unusualness or aesthetic perfection. We are accustomed to generally calling the latter the beauty of the city, without really thinking about its components. The appearance of the remaining, unremarkable settlements settles as an amorphous, indistinguishable mass in the nooks and crannies of memories. If these cities, similar to each other, emerge from the depths of oblivion, it is not on their own, but perhaps because of the events and affairs associated with them. The emotional coloring of such memories depends not on the appearance of the city, not on its architecture, but on the everyday sensations experienced in it and, therefore, lies beyond the scope of the aesthetic. Some life events turn out to be so little connected with an artistically meaningful environment that it is difficult for a person to even say where, in fact, they occurred...

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