Search for dissertations about: "places"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 664 swedish dissertations containing the word places.

  2. 16. Attractiveness in Urban Design : A study of the production of attractive places

    Author : Erik Hidman; Kristina L. Nilsson; Björn Ekelund; Anna-Johanna Klasander; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; attractiveness; urban design; urban critical studies; production of space; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Abstract : This research project investigates the production of attractive places, through theory form and everyday life. The research study was originally sprung from practical questions regarding the extensive use of the term attractiveness in urban planning and design. READ MORE

  4. 17. The Creation of Places in Traffic through Performative Action

    Author : Mikael Jonasson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  5. 18. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

    Author : Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

    Abstract : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. READ MORE

  6. 19. Global Lifestyles : Constructions of Places and Identities in Travel Journalism

    Author : Emilia Ljungberg; Mediehistoria; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies representations of globalization by analyzing travel journalism in two magazines from 1982 to 2008. Globalization discourses are studied through an analysis of how places and identities are constructed. READ MORE

  7. 20. Artful organizing : essays on places, measurements and money flows in the Contemporary Cultural World

    Author : Erik Wikberg; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation focuses on how individuals, organizations, and markets manage contradictory demands and expectations from their environment. It studies primarily two fields of cultural production: the art worlds for contemporary art and the organizational field of architecture. READ MORE