Search for dissertations about: "public spaces in cities"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words public spaces in cities.

2. 1. Main streets as resilient public spaces : Zooming in on ground floors in Stockholm

   Author : Rosa Danenberg; Hans Westlund; Tigran Haas; Vikas Mehta; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Main Street; Public Space; Ground Floor; Morphology; Pandemic; Retail Gentrification; Property Ownership; Street Management; Curation; Stockholm; Urban and Regional Studies; Urbana och regionala studier;

   Abstract : This research focuses on how main streets and ground floors can be adaptable and resilient public spaces. Main streets are vital components of the urban fabric of cities worldwide, serving dual roles as both links and places. READ MORE

4. 2. In the name of safety : power, politics and the constitutive effects of local governing practices in Sweden

   Author : Jennie Brandén; Malin Rönnblom; Linda Sandberg; Christine Hudson; Emilia Palonen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Safety; unsafety; governmentality; political ethnography; public space; safety walks; participation; community; certification; security guards; private security; patrolling; Sweden; statskunskap; political science; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : In a time of uncertainty and risk, safety has become an increasingly significant concern. In Sweden, a powerful discourse around public safety has developed in recent years, moving it to the top of the political agenda. READ MORE

5. 3. Encountering the meeting place : The production of public space in contemporary Swedish planning

   Author : Christopher Olsson; Mats Lundmark; Ida Andersson; Carina Listerborn; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban planning; public space; spaces of encounter; meeting place; redevelopment projects; the production of space;

   Abstract : A common theme in contemporary Swedish planning discussions is that we no longer meet each other in public spaces. This perceived lack of interpersonal meetings and encounters is said to reinforce the use ofstereotypes and create further distance between differences in the city. READ MORE

6. 4. Urban types in rapidly urbanising cities

   Author : John Modestus Lupala; KTH; []
   Keywords : urban types; hourse forms; densily; plot characteristics; spaces and space use; spatial quality; formal and informal settlement; dar es salaam;

   Abstract : One of the challenges confronting cities innon-industrialised countries today is the fact that cities aregrowing at unprecedented rates, sizes and densities. Growthtrends in these cities are largely unregulated. READ MORE

7. 5. Stewardship in an urban world : Civic engagement and human–nature relations in the Anthropocene

   Author : Johan Enqvist; Maria Tengö; Örjan Bodin; Bengt G. Karlsson; Richard C. Stedman; Morgan Grove; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agency; Bengaluru; boundary object; care; civil society; community; environmental ethics; knowledge; natural resource management; New York City; problem of fit; rigidity trap; sense of place; social–ecological system; urbanization; water governance; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   Abstract : Never before have humans wielded a greater ability to alter and disrupt planetary processes. Our impact is becoming so noticeable that a new geological epoch has been proposed – the Anthropocene – in which Earth systems might no longer maintain the stable and predictable conditions of the past 12 millennia. READ MORE