Search for dissertations about: "housing planning"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 106 swedish dissertations containing the words housing planning.
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1. Institutional Prerequisites for Housing Development : A comparative study of Germany and Sweden
Abstract : The housing shortage in Swedish growth regions has been heatedly debated for a number of years. Extensive reform proposals have been made by market actors and academics. The former center–right government in power until 2014 emphasized reform of the urban planning process. READ MORE
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2. Footprints of an invisible population : second-home tourism and its heterogeneous impacts on municipal planning and housing markets in Sweden
Abstract : While public administrative systems are based on a principle of permanent residence, many people use multiple dwellings, such as second homes, in their everyday life. This mismatch makes second-home tourists an invisible population in the eyes of these systems, when, for example, distributing tax revenues or planning public services. READ MORE
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3. Influence and Invisibility : Tenants in Housing Provision in Mwanza City, Tanzania
Abstract : A high proportion of urban residents in Tanzanian cities are tenants who rent rooms in privately owned houses in unplanned settlements. However, in housing policy and in urban planning rental tenure gets very little attention. This study focuses on the reasons for and consequences of this discrepancy between policy and practice. READ MORE
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4. The state of tenancy : Rental housing and municipal statecraft in Malmö, Sweden
Abstract : Rental housing tenants in Sweden and Europe are increasingly seeing their homes subsumed to market pressures. This thesis provides empirical and conceptual insights into the processes by which market and financial practices and logics shape the housing sector, through a critical analysis of rental housing in Malmö, Sweden. READ MORE
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5. Institutional prerequisites for affordable housing development : A comparative study of Germany and Sweden
Abstract : This thesis was written against the background of intense public debate on increasing housing shortages and housing policy reform in Germany and Sweden. Potential reforms to increase housing development volumes, especially in the affordable segment, are analysed using theories of institutional change with focus on urban planning, building law and housing policy. READ MORE