Search for dissertations about: "modernist city"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words modernist city.

2. 1. Imagining the Organic City : Modern Tropes of Organization

   Author : Meike Schalk; Kenneth Olwig; Sven Olov Wallenstein; Helena Mattsson; M Christine Boyer; Faculty of Landscape Architecture Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp; []
   Keywords : organic; organism; types; evolution; city; society; biology; Patrick Geddes; urban design; metabolism; organization;

   Abstract : The thesis examines three ’organic tropes’ of modern architecture and urban design, addressing different crucial moments of change within modernist discourse. Attention is focused on the institutionalization of ‘town planning’ at the turn of the last century; the shift during the post-war years; and the beginning of urban debate in Japan during the early 1960s. READ MORE

4. 2. Living with Brasilia : a resident's perspective of the confrontation between heroic vision and social reality

   Author : Rosane Bauer; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; superquadras; Brasilia; egalitarian social order; social interaction; modernist city; residents perspective; traditional street life; productiion of space; appropriation; social stratification;

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5. 3. Places on Becoming : An Ethnographic Case Study of a Changing City and its Emerging Residential Environments

   Author : Alazar Ejigu; Tigran Haas; Roderick Lawrence; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; place; placemaking; large-scale housing; ethnography; modernity; condominiums; Addis Ababa; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

   Abstract : Some places which once were celebrated by many slowly become places of desolation and social problem while others built with similar intentions and forms continue to flourish. This is typically true of a number of large residential neighbourhoods of Post-World War II Europe and many cities of the global South. READ MORE

6. 4. The evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004

   Author : Fredrick Omolo-Okalebo; Inga Britt Werner; Robert Home; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; planning; planning ideas; implementation; colonial; postcolonial;

   Abstract : Through a descriptive and exploratory approach, and by review and deduction of archival and documentary resources, supplemented by empirical evidence from case studies, this thesis traces, analyses and describes the historic trajectory of planning events in Kampala City, Uganda, since the inception of modern town planning in 1903, and runs through the various planning episodes of 1912, 1919, 1930, 1951, 1972 and 1994. The planning ideas at interplay in each planning period and their expression in planning schemes vis-à-vis spatial outcomes form the major focus. READ MORE

7. 5. Compact sprawl : Exploring public open space and contradictions in urban density

   Author : Alexander Ståhle; Lars Marcus; Michael Batty; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Spatial morphology; Urban design; Public open space; Urban density; Landscape planning; Architecture; Arkitektur;

   Abstract : Twentieth century urbanization has left a tremendous footprint on the globe. It is generally speaking a spread out fragmented suburban and exurban landscape continuously growing according to what has been called sprawl-like development, increasing energy and automobile dependency, challenging urban sustainability. READ MORE