Search for dissertations about: "landscape visual"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words landscape visual.
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1. The Double Aspect : Gerald Murnane's Visual Poetics
Abstract : With its abundance of maps, place names, and landscapes, and with titles like Inland and Landscape with Landscape, Gerald Murnane's fiction exemplifies the dominance of land in Australian literature. Yet, Murnane's fiction differs from most "landscape fiction" in that it depicts an Australia that despite its history of exploration has not yet been fully discovered. READ MORE
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2. Crowdability of Urban Space. : Ordinary rhythms of clustering and declustering and their architectural prerequisites
Abstract : In the wake of densification and urbanisation, crowding has become an increasingly important issue for social sustainability in cities. This also affects urban design and the ways public spaces stimulate different kinds of crowding and clustering. READ MORE
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3. Community involvement & ecomuseums : towards a mutual approach to ecomuseology and landscape studies
Abstract : Ecomuseums are museums for, by, and about people at home in their own environment (Keyes, 1992). Since their establishment in 1971, community involvement has been a defining characteristic of ecomuseums. Such community involvement does not just preserve artefacts, but also protects and creates its own physical environment in the form of landscape. READ MORE
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4. By foot at ease : environmental affordances for wellbeing in walking
Abstract : Walking has been shown to provide benefits for our health and also for the environment. Research has also shown that if the built environment is adapted for pedestrians, people walk more. However, there is a lack of qualitative research in architecture and urban design on walking at the micro (streetscape) scale. READ MORE
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5. Green Is Not Just Green : human colour perception in urban green contexts
Abstract : The thesis is intended to be part of a larger process and field, by helping to increase understanding of how changed colour characteristics in urban green spaces can influence human experiences. More specifically, the thesis explores whether human colour perception is influenced by factors such as viewing distance, seasons, species mixture, or colourful artefacts incorporated in urban green spaces. READ MORE