Search for dissertations about: "city formation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words city formation.

  2. 1. Transaction Spaces : Consumption Configurations and City Formation

    Author : Lukas Smas; Brita Hermelin; Bo Lenntorp; Peter Jackson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumption; transactions spaces; city formation; everyday life; commodities; urban development; consumer services; retail; spatial practices and representations; time-geography; Stockholm; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; kulturgeografi; Human Geography;

    Abstract : Consumption forms and is formed by the city. How, when and where commodities are transacted is essential in this urban drama of mutual relationships. This thesis explores how consumption and everyday life in cities are interrelated. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Global City 2.0 : An International Political Actor Beyond Economism?

    Author : Kristin Ljungkvist; Nils Hertting; Stefano Guzzini; Bo Bengtsson; Jan Aart Scholte; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Global City; urban security; cities and globalization; counterterrorism; cities and climate change mitigation; New York City politics; role conception; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to increase our understanding of the Global City’s pursuit of what can be regarded as independent foreign and security policies, despite the fact that such policies have traditionally been considered to be a core function of central governments. By studying how the Global City’s role in the globalized world is constructed in local public narratives as the local government develops and pursues specific international policies, the thesis argues, we can come closer to an understanding of what it means to be and to govern a Global City, and why its local government find it to be in the city’s interest to claim international political authority. READ MORE

  5. 3. Evolving Urban Culture in Transforming Cities Architectural and Urban Design in a Fluid Context

    Author : Mir Azimzadeh; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; evolution; generative process; space; configuration; culture; society; urban design; architecture; urban spatial systems; metamorphosis; domestic space; public space; place; analytic theory; space syntax; cultural types; local structure; urban function; housing estate; city; spatial interface; street system;

    Abstract : The practice of architectural and urban design being involved in forming the space in our cities and built environments has certain effects on the social life in society that in its turn conditions the performance of the practice. The continuous changes in cities and societies, however, are just partially caused by the practice of architectural and urban design. READ MORE

  6. 4. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

    Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE

  7. 5. To Make Do in the City : Social Identities and Cultural Transformations among Aymara Speakers in La Paz

    Author : Charlotta Widmark; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Mikael Kurkiala; Lesley Gill; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Bolivia; Aymara; migrants; urban community; emplacement; identity; gender; social change; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This study deals with cultural transformations and negotiations of social identity among urban Aymara speakers (bilingual Spanish-Aymara) in the city of La Paz in Bolivia in the last decade of the twentieth century. The main question concerns how they experience and express their sense of belonging in relation to their subordinated roles in society and the new spaces that are opened up by the democratization process. READ MORE