Search for dissertations about: "city break"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words city break.
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1. On the road to climate neutral Swedish transportation: Energy system modelling to support the transition at national, regional, and local levels
Abstract : Transportation is a critical pillar of modern society. Over the past decades, growth in mobility of people and goods have been both enabled by and dependent upon fossil fuels. Strong action is needed to break this dependence in order to reduce CO2. READ MORE
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2. The labour of infrastructuring : An inquiry into participatory design in the public sector
Abstract : Every organisation, cooperation, project or social movement is quintessentially a cluster of alignments between people, places and things. Through these alignments, networks are made, and through these networks action can be made possible or be constricted. READ MORE
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3. Urban environmental stewardship : Roles and reasons for civic engagements in governance of social-ecological systems
Abstract : Stewardship as a concept is increasingly brought forward as a goal to reach sustainability goals of ensuring human wellbeing within the limits of Earth’s life support systems. Scholarship on the required capacities for planetary stewardship is growing rapidly, as are the insights. READ MORE
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4. Numerical analyses of the hangingwall at the Kiirunavaara mine
Abstract : The mining method used in the Kiirunavaara Mine induces failure in the hangingwall which caves and subsides by the effect of stress relaxation and gravity. Since the orebody is dipping towards the city of Kiruna, surface disturbances are approaching the town as mining proceeds to a greater depth. READ MORE
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5. Architecturally Innovative Multi-Storey Timber Buildings : Methodology and Design
Abstract : This investigation applies architectural ideas of mass-customised difference and repetition, and tests them within the engineering paradigm of very tall timber buildings – taller than have ever been erected in the history of architecture. According to Edward Glaeser’s book, Triumph of the City, the cheapest way to deliver new housing (at least in the USA) is in theform of mass-produced two-storey homes, which typically cost only about $84 per square foot to erect. READ MORE