Search for dissertations about: "housing estates"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words housing estates.

2. 1. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow

   Author : Alexander Kalyukin; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Tim Cresswell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; built environment; housing; everyday life; avant-garde architecture; humanistic geography; phenomenology; Henri Lefebvre; post-Soviet city; Moscow; Russia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. READ MORE

4. 2. Organizational and economic aspects of housing management in deprived areas

   Author : Gunnar Blomé; Hans Lind; Christine Whitehead; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; large housing estates; deprived areas; housing policies; economic valuation and local management organisation models;

   Abstract : This dissertation consists of five papers with different objectives. The overall objective is to improve knowledge of effective policies regarding socially deprived large housing estates. All studies deal with the real estate context from a housing company decision-making perspective. READ MORE

5. 3. Essays on inheritance, small businesses and energy consumption

   Author : Sebastian Escobar; Mikael Elinder; Katarina Nordblom; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; estates; bequests; inheritance taxes; tax evasion; tax avoidace; liquidity; entrepreneurship; small business; sub-metering; environment; smart meters; energy conservation; quasi experiment;

   Abstract : Essay 1: People’s planning to evade the inheritance tax curtails its merits. However, the extent of planning remains a matter of argument. According to popular belief, it is widespread, but few estimates have been presented. READ MORE

6. 4. Service management in housing refurbishment : satisfying the ultimate customer

   Author : Mats G. Holm; KTH; []
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   Abstract : It is unusual to find that housing refurbishment projectshave been undertaken with a clear focus on customer orientationdirected towards the tenants, or owners of co-operative flatsor condominiums. Only recently have researchers in constructionmanagement begun to look closer at the relationship betweencontractors and customers. READ MORE

7. 5. Suburban Navigation Structural Coherence and Visual Appearance in Urban Design

   Author : Anna-Johanna Klasander; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; housing estates; urban typologies; orientation; urban morphology; suburbs; legibility; cognitive mapping; environmental cognition; urban design; space syntax;

   Abstract : This thesis is written within the field of architecture and urban design. Its main subject is the morphology of housing estate suburbs that were built in Sweden from the 1940s to the 1970s. With the issue of environmental legibility as point of departure, structural and visual properties of urban settings are studied. READ MORE