Search for dissertations about: "Urban growth"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 198 swedish dissertations containing the words Urban growth.

  2. 21. Network-based urban growth - How centrality and accessibility to places shape land use

    Author : Leonard Carl Staffan Nilsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; urban growth; transport infrastructure; network; accessibility; Land-use change; agglomeration; complex; urban planning; spatial interaction; GIS;

    Abstract : The world is experiencing unprecedented and rapid urbanization. To be able to handle this transformation and guide the design of these cities in the way the inhabitants want to have them, it is necessary to understand the drivers and perform planning beforehand.   Cities are complex systems. READ MORE

  4. 22. Urban Processes and Global Competition. Enabling factors for mutual urban and economic development Norra Älvstranden in Göteborg

    Author : Bo Öhrström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; enabling; institutional conditions; urban financing; competitive advantage; economic development; reflexivity; triple helix; governance; urban growth node; urban development; facilitation; cluster; system of innovation; guided development;

    Abstract : Planning and re-development of the former shipyard and harbour areas in Göteborg represent an attempt where the new urban web is anchored in a corresponding development of user needs. This thesis examines the conditions for urban planning and development of an urban growth node in the form of an innovative cluster at Lindholmen. READ MORE

  5. 23. Urban-Rural Relations in China : A Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region

    Author : Yuheng Li; Hans Westlund; Göran Cars; Johan Klaesson; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban-rural linkages; Urban bias; Urban-rural interface; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region; China; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi;

    Abstract : Over three decades of rapid economic growth in China, beginning in 1978, has been accompanied by ever-enlarging urban-rural inequalities in terms of the various aspects of income, welfare, infrastructure, medical treatment, and education (amongst others). These two parts – the urban and the rural - have long been treated separately, without much consideration being given to their mutual linkages (relations). READ MORE

  6. 24. Biodiversity and green infrastructure in urban landscapes

    Author : Ulf G. Sandström; Per Angelstam; Abdul Khakee; Kjell Nilsson; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Biologi; Birds in cities; Communication between sciences; Conservation planning; Landscape ecology; Swedish green planning; Urban green space; Urban planning; Urban vegetation; Biologi med ekologisk inriktning; Biology; Biologi; Biologi med ekologisk inriktning;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I evaluate the extent to which biodiversity is affected, and taken into consideration by, urban planning. Based on landscape ecology, I apply an interdisciplinary approach. READ MORE

  7. 25. Urban Growth Modeling Based on Land-use Changes and Road Network Expansion

    Author : Yikang Rui; Yifang Ban; Henning Sten Hansen; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; urban growth sprawl; land-use simulation; multi-agent system; road network pattern; space syntax; complex networks; evolving weighted networks; nonlinear growth; local world; hierarchy; self-organized; local optimization; morphological changes; street centrality; adaptive kernel density estimation; dual representation;

    Abstract : A city is considered as a complex system. It consists of numerous interactivesub-systems and is affected by diverse factors including governmental landpolicies, population growth, transportation infrastructure, and market behavior. READ MORE