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2. 21. Planning, Projects, Practice : A Human Geography of the Stockholm Local Investment Programme in Hammarby Sjöstad

   Author : Jonas R Bylund; Elisabeth Lilja; Bo Lenntorp; Stefan Anderberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stockholm; LIP; Hammarby Sjöstad; Sustainability; Innovation; Planning; Policy; Translation; Actor-Network Theory; Laboratory; Project; Urban Specialists; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : Programmes and policies to support ecological sustainable development and the practice of implementation is a question of innovation rather than known and taken for granted procedure. This thesis argues a priori models concerning stability in the social sciences, and human geography especially, are less able to help us understand this practice and planning in such unstable situations. READ MORE

4. 22. The Social City : Middle-way approaches to housing and sub-urban golvernmentality in southern Stockholm, 1900-1945

   Author : Mats Deland; Ulf Jonsson; Mats Franzén; Clemens Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stockholm; governmentality; Foucault; land holding; leaseholding; site leasehold rights; municipal administration; housing; urban history; suburban; town planning; city planning; urban order; local press; voluntary societies; gender; disciplinary; philanthropy; Enskede; Brännkyrka; Söderort; Settlement studies; Bebyggelseforskning;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with the period bridging the era of extreme housing shortages in Stockholm on the eve of industrialisation and the much admired programmes of housing provision that followed after the second world war, when Stockholm district Vällingby became an example for underground railway-serviced ”new towns”. It is argued that important changes were made in the housing and town planning policy in Stockholm in this period that paved the way for the successful ensuing period. READ MORE

5. 23. Producing Publicness : Investigating the Dialectics of Unintended Consequences in Urban Design  - Practices in Stockholm and Malmö

   Author : ELAHE KARIMNIA; TIGRAN HAAS; INGA BRITT WERNER; MAHYAR AREFI; CHARLES BOHL; KTH; []
   Keywords : Urban Design Process; Publicness; Public Space; Appropriation of Space; Intentions and Outcomes; Unintended Consequences; Stockholm; Malmö; Stadsbyggnadsprocess; social offentlighet; offentliga rum; ianspråktagande av miljön; avsikter och utfall; oavsiktliga konsekvenser; Stockholm; Malmö; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; Arkitektur; Architecture;

   Abstract : The creation of public space is intended to contribute to the civic infrastructure of a city. The conventional dichotomy of intentions versus outcomes in urban design practice posits that, while intentions represent more abstract thinking about the various facets of publicness, outcomes are the manifest realizations of those intentions in public spaces. READ MORE

6. 24. Studies in the structure of the Stockholm economy : towards a framework for projecting metropolitan community development

   Author : Roland Artle; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : The purpose of the present study is mainly exploratory. It is founded upon a belief that many tools and concepts developed in economic theory, and hitherto applied almost exclusively to the study of nationaleconomies, may be fruitfully applied also in the study of the economics of metropolitan areas and other large cities. READ MORE

7. 25. Underwater Worlds : An Ethnography of Waste, Pollution, and Marine Life

   Author : Rasmus Rodineliussen; Bengt Karlsson; Helena Wulff; Marianne Lien; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Aquabiopolitics; Lake Mälaren; Marine Life; Pollution; Relations; Science; Social Media; Stockholm; The Baltic Sea; Time; Trash Diving; Violence; Visibility; Waste; Water; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : In this dissertation, I investigate relations between humans, waste, pollution, and marine life. I introduce the concept of Aquabiopolitics as a means to understand how humans govern life in water in order to enrich human life on land. READ MORE