Search for dissertations about: "city culture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the words city culture.

  1. 1. Evolving Urban Culture in Transforming Cities Architectural and Urban Design in a Fluid Context

    Author : Mir Azimzadeh; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; evolution; generative process; space; configuration; culture; society; urban design; architecture; urban spatial systems; metamorphosis; domestic space; public space; place; analytic theory; space syntax; cultural types; local structure; urban function; housing estate; city; spatial interface; street system;

    Abstract : The practice of architectural and urban design being involved in forming the space in our cities and built environments has certain effects on the social life in society that in its turn conditions the performance of the practice. The continuous changes in cities and societies, however, are just partially caused by the practice of architectural and urban design. READ MORE

  2. 2. Painting the City : Performative Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Space and Art

    Author : Tindra Thor; Miyase Christensen; André Jansson; Toby Miller; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; graffiti; street art; performance ethnography; aesthetic cosmopolitanism; performative cosmopolitanism; urban space; regimes of cosmopolitanism; hyper mediatization; Media and Communication Studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Understanding everyday urban practices as performative, political, and potentially transformative, this dissertation aims to explore how graffiti- and street art use, subvert, and, via media, extend urban space in Stockholm. Drawing upon a performative ethnographic approach, the study focuses on both the practice of and the various forms of social commentary and critique generated by graffiti and street art in Stockholm. READ MORE

  3. 3. Influential Moments in City Planning Meetings : A Study of Decision-Making Situations in a Jordanian Municipality

    Author : Marwa Al Khalidi; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; decision-making; planning culture; city planning meetings; Jordan; destabilizations; heterogeneity; participant observation; controversy; actor-network theory; influential moments; narrative;

    Abstract : The shaping of a city and its future relates to official decisions made in city planning meetings, where daily planning matters and decision-making processes adapt to changing societal circumstances. The interest of this research lies in how planning is officially established, managed and practiced in the setting of a Jordanian city, and its local districts. READ MORE

  4. 4. Key Notes on the Unruly City : Social, Material, and Spatial Transgressions

    Author : Adam Bergholm; Catharina Gabrielsson; Robin Wilson; KTH; []
    Keywords : Right to the City; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design;

    Abstract : This research departs from three intersecting field studies in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Paris, and includes both my interventions in the urban texture and integrations with existing communities working in the subject field of the Right to the City (Lefebvre 1968). The projects explore the mutable “nature” of cities and build on political philosophies which describe egalitarian actions that have shaped what those places could be. READ MORE

  5. 5. From Curiosa to World Culture. The History of the Latin American Collections at the Museum of World Culture in Sweden

    Author : Adriana Muñoz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archeology; Ethnography; Collections; Museums; Practices; National-States; World Culture; Latin America; Gothenburg; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses the history of the Latin American collections stored today at the Museum of World Culture in Sweden, emphasizing the relationship between the political ideological context of society and the signifi cance that the objects have been given over time. When the fi rst collections started to come to Sweden they meant a cosmopolitan touch to the upcoming bourgeoisie of the city of Gothenburg. READ MORE