Search for dissertations about: "Rule city"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Rule city.

  2. 1. Planning for emergence: Confronting rule-based and design-based urban development

    Author : Hye Kyung Lim; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; density; compact city; rule-based approach; diversity; design-based approach; urban resilience; planning by coding; emergent urban form;

    Abstract : Increasing urban populations, climate changes, financial instability, global conflicts, depletion of resources, and increasing land consumption all contribute to the complex and unpredictable urban challenges we are facing today. A compact urban form is promoted by global and local policies, and research has shown the benefits of dense and diverse properties for their capacity to provide complex responses to complex challenges. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Argolid under Roman rule (31 BC - AD 600)

    Author : Renée Forsell; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Ancient history; power structures; social structure; Christianisation; religious life; trade; subsistence; settlement patterns; Western Argolid; Southern Argolid; Methana; Troizenia; Epidaurea; Late Roman Greece; Argolid; Roman Greece; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the region of Argolid in the eastern part of the Greek Peloponnese during the Roman Imperial era, taking up a variety of aspects of life there based mainly on archaeological evidence. The introduction presents the study area and the background to the study. READ MORE

  5. 3. Staging urban emergence through collective creativity: Devising an outdoor mobile augmented reality tool

    Author : Hyekyung Imottesjo; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Urban Rules; Emergent processes; outdoor mobile augmented reality; Compact city; Complex adaptive systems; Urban resilience; collaborative design; research-through-design;

    Abstract : The unpredictability of global geopolitical conflicts, economic trends, and impacts of climate change, coupled with an increasing urban population, necessitates a more profound commitment to resilience thinking in urban planning and design. In contrast to top-down planning and designing for sustainability, allowing for emergence to take place seems to contribute to a capacity to better deal with this complex unpredictability, by allowing incremental changes through bottom-up, self-organized adaptation made by diverse actors in the proximity of various social, economical and functional entities in the urban context. READ MORE

  6. 4. Unsettled City: Neoliberal redevelopment, state crisis, slum resettlement & biopolitical struggle in Mumbai

    Author : Rishi Jha; Social utsatthet och ojämlikhet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban redevelopment; Dispossession; Governmentality; Bio-necro-politics; Bureaucracy; Slum; Resettlement; Mumbai;

    Abstract : This dissertation concerns capitalist urban redevelopment and the government of urban housing poverty. It examines the ways urban redevelopment regimes shape resettlements and governance of urban populations in Mumbai. READ MORE

  7. 5. Outside the Law : An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá

    Author : Ana Maria Vargas Falla; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Control; Sociology of Law; Well-being; Street Vendors; Rickshaws; Ethnography; Bogotá; Colombia; Informal Economy; Informal Workers; Formalization; Rule of Law; Legal Empowerment.; Social Norms; Informal Control; Negative Social Capital; Legal Pluralism; Labor Law; social kontroll; rättssociologi; well-being; gatuförsäljare; rickshaws; etnografi; Bogotá; Colombia; informell ekonomi; arbetsliv; formalisering; rättssäkerhet; empowerment; sociala normer; informell kontroll; socialt kapital; juridik; normer; rättspluralism;

    Abstract : Millions of people worldwide work outside the law as street vendors in order to earn a living. However, they often work in fear of police evictions and confiscations since their work is in many places considered illegal. READ MORE