Search for dissertations about: "theses with the city"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 744 swedish dissertations containing the words theses with the city.
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1. Painting the City : Performative Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Space and Art
Abstract : Understanding everyday urban practices as performative, political, and potentially transformative, this dissertation aims to explore how graffiti- and street art use, subvert, and, via media, extend urban space in Stockholm. Drawing upon a performative ethnographic approach, the study focuses on both the practice of and the various forms of social commentary and critique generated by graffiti and street art in Stockholm. READ MORE
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2. The Social City : Middle-way approaches to housing and sub-urban golvernmentality in southern Stockholm, 1900-1945
Abstract : This dissertation deals with the period bridging the era of extreme housing shortages in Stockholm on the eve of industrialisation and the much admired programmes of housing provision that followed after the second world war, when Stockholm district Vällingby became an example for underground railway-serviced ”new towns”. It is argued that important changes were made in the housing and town planning policy in Stockholm in this period that paved the way for the successful ensuing period. READ MORE
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3. Imagining the Organic City : Modern Tropes of Organization
Abstract : The thesis examines three ’organic tropes’ of modern architecture and urban design, addressing different crucial moments of change within modernist discourse. Attention is focused on the institutionalization of ‘town planning’ at the turn of the last century; the shift during the post-war years; and the beginning of urban debate in Japan during the early 1960s. READ MORE
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4. Surviving in the city : The urban poor of Santiago de Chile 1930-1970
Abstract : This thesis deals with the survival patterns of the urban poor in Santiago de Chile during a period of profound structural changes (1930-1970). Using a qualitative approach and a dynamic analysis, the life histories of 54 interviewees are studied in the framework of the historical, economic, social and cultural conditions of the period. READ MORE
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5. Management with the People : An Enabling Approach to Neighbourhood Road Infrastructure Management in Kampala City
Abstract : Rapid urbanization occurring in many developing countries coupled with the constraints they are facing, has affected road infrastructure service delivery by public authorities charged with managing them. In Kampala City’s mixed income neighbourhood areas that have a disparity between neighbourhood community members, inadequate neighbourhood road management by Kampala City Council who are charged with managing these roads has led to neighbourhood roads that are in a poor state of disrepair, and do not meet many of the needs of their users. READ MORE