Search for dissertations about: "urban morphology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words urban morphology.

  2. 1. Suburban Navigation Structural Coherence and Visual Appearance in Urban Design

    Author : Anna-Johanna Klasander; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; housing estates; urban typologies; orientation; urban morphology; suburbs; legibility; cognitive mapping; environmental cognition; urban design; space syntax;

    Abstract : This thesis is written within the field of architecture and urban design. Its main subject is the morphology of housing estate suburbs that were built in Sweden from the 1940s to the 1970s. With the issue of environmental legibility as point of departure, structural and visual properties of urban settings are studied. READ MORE

  4. 2. Architectural knowledge and urban form

    Author : Lars Marcus; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; architecture; knowledge; urban form; function; morphology; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

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  5. 3. The monetary value of urban form: Examining the relationship between accessibilities and attractiveness in Oslo

    Author : Axel Heyman; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; urban economics; monetary value; accessibility; hedonic price model; urban form; attractiveness; urban design; urban planning;

    Abstract : Today and for the foreseeable future we experience a global urbanisation, which requires development of buildings, roads, and plots, also called urban form. Most often it is urban planning and design that determine changes in urban form, and it should be valuable with knowledge of its monetary value. READ MORE

  6. 4. Towards digitalisation of urban social sustainability

    Author : Sanjay Somanath; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; indicators; digital tools; neighbourhood; Urban morphology; digitalisation; urban planning; Social Sustainability;

    Abstract : The primary goal of the built environment is to create the infrastructure that facilitates the needs of the people that use them and elevate their quality of life. Sustainable development has encouraged architects and urban planners to be more sensitive toward the built environment's economic, environmental, and social dimensions. READ MORE

  7. 5. Compact sprawl : Exploring public open space and contradictions in urban density

    Author : Alexander Ståhle; Lars Marcus; Michael Batty; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Spatial morphology; Urban design; Public open space; Urban density; Landscape planning; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Abstract : Twentieth century urbanization has left a tremendous footprint on the globe. It is generally speaking a spread out fragmented suburban and exurban landscape continuously growing according to what has been called sprawl-like development, increasing energy and automobile dependency, challenging urban sustainability. READ MORE