Search for dissertations about: "urban common"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 239 swedish dissertations containing the words urban common.

  2. 1. Common Knowledge : lowland Maya urban farming at Xuch

    Author : Christian Isendahl; Luis Alberto Barba Pingarrón; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Ecological settlement archaeology; Maya; urbanism; agriculture; architecture; ceramics; geochemistry; vegetation; soils; archaeoclimatic modelling; Preclassic; Classic; Postclassic; Colonial; Xuch; Puuc; Campeche; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : During the second half of the first millennium AD, several large urban communities developed in the Puuc region of the northwest Yucatán Peninsula. Investigations of architecture and ceramics at Xuch provide a spatio-chronological framework demonstrating the rapid growth of an urban settlement culminating in the Terminal Classic, and its subsequent decline. READ MORE

  4. 2. Towards a Minor Urbanism : Thinking Community without Unity in Recent Makings of Public Space

    Author : Ida Sandström; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Public Space; Spaces of Being-in-Common; Spaces of Collective Care; Minor Urbanism; Community without Unity; Community; Urban design; Urban space; City park; Urban planning; Co-Production; Urban Participation; Urbanism; Difference; Spaces of difference; Diversity; Spaces of diversity; offentliga rum; offentliga platser; urban arkitektur; Planering; mångfald; torg och parker; Urban design; urban gemenskap; urbanism; medborgardeltagande; medborgarengagemang; planeringspraktiker; gestaltad livsmiljö;

    Abstract : HOW CAN WE PLAN AND DESIGN FOR community in diverse urban situations? In response to segregation and social fragmentation, public space is increasingly being conceived of as a vehicle for fostering openness towards differences, both in planning practice and theory. Drawing on two recent public space projects – Superkilen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Jubileumsparken in Gothenburg, Sweden – this thesis explores what this hopeful idea may mean in terms of the actual making of public space. READ MORE

  5. 3. Crossing the river by feeling the stones : Approaches to Sustainable Urban Development in China

    Author : Hongling Liu; Björn Frostell; Dick Urban Vestbro; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Abstract : China already has the highest numbe of,and largest cities in its history. According to recent statistics, Chinese cities were home to 52.6% of China’s total population at the end of 2012. READ MORE

  6. 4. Closed-loop Identification : Methods, Theory, and Applications

    Author : Urban Forssell; Lennart Ljung; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Abstract : System identification deals with constructing mathematical models of dynamical systems from measured data. Such models have important applications in many technical and nontechnical areas, such as diagnosis, simulation, prediction, and control. READ MORE

  7. 5. Properties and Usage of Closed-loop Identification Methods

    Author : Urban Forssell; Lennart Ljung; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Abstract : System identification deals with the construction of mathematical models of dynamical systems using measured data. Closed-loop identification is what results when performing the identification experiment under output feedback, that is, in closed loop. READ MORE