Search for dissertations about: "city form"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 118 swedish dissertations containing the words city form.

2. 11. Urban Intensification in Metropolitan Khartoum : Influential Factors, Benefits and Applicability

   Author : Burhan Elghazali; Folke Snickars; Aloysius Mosha; KTH; []
   Keywords : Intensification; urban form; factors that shape urban form; developing countries; infrastructure cost; metropolitan Khartoum; Sudan; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the theoretical and methodological implications involved in the policy framework needed to intensify urban residential areas in a developing country. Metropolitan Khartoum, Sudan, has been chosen as a case study. READ MORE

4. 12. Rummet och människans rörelser

   Author : Inger Bergström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; utility of space; modern city concept; everyday social life; urban public space; form and motion; experience of room;

   Abstract : This book deals with objects and design of spatial elements and how they affect the motions of humans, their significance for the use of space as well as events in human life. As a framework, problems of perceptual research is dealt with and the possibilities to making general and valid notions on phenomena that occur from subjective experiences. READ MORE

5. 13. Exploring social-cultural explanations for residential location choices : the case of an African City - Dar es Salaam

   Author : Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba; Rolf Johansson; Andrew Byerley; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Residential location choices; informal settlements; social networks; social capital; African cities; Architectural conservation and restoration; Bebyggelsevård;

   Abstract : This study explores the factors urban residents consider when making residential location decisions. The context of the study is informal residential areas in a rapidly urbanising African city – the city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. READ MORE

6. 14. Spatiality of Multiculturalism

   Author : Mohammad Sarraf; Lars Marcus; Mattias Kärrholm; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; spatial form; multiculturalism; ‘civility of indifference’; co-presence; multiplicity; overlapping spaces; ‘together-in-difference’.; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; Architecture; Arkitektur;

   Abstract : Multiculturalism, as a set of ideas and policies, is one of the normative approaches to the current situation of cultural diversity in multicultural cities. But how can the ideas of multiculturalism be translated into the reality of urban form? The overall aim of this dissertation is to provide a theoretical and conceptual frame of reference for distilling and identifying the ideas of multiculturalism which can be translated into spatial form, and in this way, to highlight the role urban form may play in addressing the situation of living living 'together-in-difference’ . READ MORE

7. 15. Vestiges of urban spirit : Isfahan's urban fabric through socio-spatial transformations

   Author : Mohammad Sarraf; Reza Kazemian; Sussan Babaie; Ali Madanipour; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Isfahan; Urban Fabric; Socio-spatial Communication; Urban Identity; Urban Transformation; Urban Renewal; Urban Form; Urban Design; اصفهان ، طراحی شهری ، فرم شهری ، دگرگونی های کالبدی ، هویت شهری ، بازسازی شهری; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

   Abstract : The city of Isfahan, one of the most historic urban settlements in Iran, has undergone dramatic socio-spatial transformations during the recent decades, beginning with the modernization programs of the 1920s. While the urban structure of Isfahan was the outcome of a process over centuries of incremental evolution, a new mode of place making and street patterns was imposed on the historic fabric of the city within the space of only a few decades. READ MORE