Search for dissertations about: "New Urbanism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words New Urbanism.

2. 1. Towards a Minor Urbanism : Thinking Community without Unity in Recent Makings of Public Space

   Author : Ida Sandström; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Public Space; Spaces of Being-in-Common; Spaces of Collective Care; Minor Urbanism; Community without Unity; Community; Urban design; Urban space; City park; Urban planning; Co-Production; Urban Participation; Urbanism; Difference; Spaces of difference; Diversity; Spaces of diversity; offentliga rum; offentliga platser; urban arkitektur; Planering; mångfald; torg och parker; Urban design; urban gemenskap; urbanism; medborgardeltagande; medborgarengagemang; planeringspraktiker; gestaltad livsmiljö;

   Abstract : HOW CAN WE PLAN AND DESIGN FOR community in diverse urban situations? In response to segregation and social fragmentation, public space is increasingly being conceived of as a vehicle for fostering openness towards differences, both in planning practice and theory. Drawing on two recent public space projects – Superkilen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Jubileumsparken in Gothenburg, Sweden – this thesis explores what this hopeful idea may mean in terms of the actual making of public space. READ MORE

4. 2. District Heating in a Liberalized Energy Market: A New Order? : Planning and Development in the Stockholm Region, 1978-2012

   Author : Dick Magnusson; Jenny Palm; Christer Persson; Dag Henning; Arne Kaijser; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : District heating; energy; Stockholm region; municipal planning; regional planning; large technical systems; splintering urbanism; planning doctrines; Fjärrvärme; energi; Stockholmsregionen; kommunal planering; regional planering; Large Technical Systems; Splintering Urbanism; Planeringsdoktriner;

   Abstract : This dissertation analyses how district heating systems in the Stockholm region have evolved and developed during the period 1978-2012. The thesis comprises four papers analyzing how district heating has been handled in municipal and regional planning. READ MORE

5. 3. Upscaling, Training, Commoning

   Author : Ana Džokić; Marc Neelen; Dougald Hine; Martijn Jeroen van der Linden; Ana Méndez de Andés; Iva Marčetić; Paul Currion; Henrietta Palmer; Doina Petrescu; Katherine Gibson; Kungl. Konsthögskolan; []
   Keywords : art; architecture; urbanism; spatial practice; artistic research; space; fiction; imagination; future; commons; community; economy; political economy; legitimacy; housing; emancipation; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Arkitektur; Architecture;

   Abstract : When on September 15, 2008 the financial conglomerate Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy – and with that ‘officially’ sparks the international financial crisis – still few would anticipate the invasive effect this crisis would come to have on the professional and personal life of many across the world. Today, it’s implosion remains a mere ‘blip’ in the universe of events that followed. READ MORE

6. 4. From energy efficiency to integrated sustainable urbanism in residential development in China

   Author : Zhichang Cai; Ronald Wennersten; Getachew Assefa Wondimagegnehu; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; China; Green Building; New Cave house; Eco-office; Mass-Housing; Green Residential Development; Industrial Ecology; Landsea Housing Project; Hammarby Sjöstad; Systems Thinking; Industrial engineering and economy; Industriell teknik och ekonomi;

   Abstract : China has adopted Sustainable Development as a national strategy for all industries. In civil construction sector, sustainability is regarded as the development of Green Building in China. Since 2000, China has introduced a series of policies and laws to promote Green Building. READ MORE

7. 5. Public Planning, Neoliberal Hybridity and Local Activism in Sundbyberg : Epochal Reconfiguration of Urban Development in Greater Stockholm

   Author : Christoffer Berg; Susanne Urban; Fredrik Palm; Miguel A. Martínez; Christian Schmid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Neoliberalism; neoliberal urbanism; urban planning; urban development; production of space; Henri Lefebvre;

   Abstract : Which urban policy responses are deployed when a small social democratic municipality in a greater city region aims to be competitive for private investments in housing and the built environment? Which new institutional development arrangements are implemented for this purpose, in the wake of a decades-long hegemonic position of the municipal public housing company? This thesis draws on a qualitative case study design to approach such questions, and investigates recent urban development in Sundbybergs stad in Greater Stockholm to answer them. Theoretically, the thesis draws on a theory of neoliberal localization in combination with Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the social production of space. READ MORE