Search for dissertations about: "public places"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 106 swedish dissertations containing the words public places.

2. 1. Costs in Swedish Public Transport : An analysis of cost drivers and cost efficiency in public transport contracts

   Author : Andreas Vigren; Svante Mandell; Johan Holmgren; Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Cost; Increase; Efficiency; Contract; Procurement; Public transport; 02 Road: Economics; 02 Road: Economics; Transportvetenskap;

   Abstract : During the last seven years, the total cost for Swedish public transport provision has increased by over 30 percent in real terms according to figures from the government agency Transport Analysis. A similar pattern is found if considering a longer time span. READ MORE

4. 2. Streets, Spaces and Places : Three Pompeiian Movement Axes Analysed

   Author : Marina Weilguni; Gullög Nordquist; Henrik Gerding; Henrik Boman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pompeii; Space Syntax; urban analysis; public space; Pompeji; Space Syntax; urbanism; offentligt rum; Archaeology; classical; Arkeologi; klassisk; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : This study is an urban analysis of Roman Pompeii. It explores the spatial structure of the town just before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 72, and how public space was used for movement, activity and interaction between people. READ MORE

5. 3. Designing Activity and Creating Experience : On People’s Play in Public places

   Author : Jon Back; Annika Waern; Barry Brown; Oskar Juhlin; Staffan Björk; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; game design; play; activity; experience; enjoyment; fun; människa-datorinteraktion; Human-machine interaction; Mobile Life; Mobile Life;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with the design of play in public places; this can mean both pervasive games and other freer play activities. In these activities (as well as in many other game activities) the same game can spur many different ways to play it, and the same activity can be experienced differently by different players, and even differently on different occasions for the same player. READ MORE

6. 4. Light Design : Outdoor Urban Public Places : - Urban Lighting: Design and Technologies -

   Author : José Nuno Sampaio; Björn-Erik Erlandsson; Izael Pereira Da Silva; KTH; []
   Keywords : Light-based Technologies and Design; Energy Technology; Energiteknik;

   Abstract : Most of the present time outdoor lighting investments seem to be focused on road and automotive traffic facilities or oriented toward safety, security and efficiency. We can identify this in many of the world cities, as a globally spread common practice, where lighting is still highly perceived as a pure matter of quantities’ distribution. READ MORE

7. 5. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

   Author : Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

   Abstract : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. READ MORE