Sökning: "Suburbia"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Suburbia.

  1. 1. Suburbia Rewritten : Masculinity and Affect in Contemporary American Literature

    Författare :Ola Jönsson; Danuta Fjellestad; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Heinz Ickstadt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suburbia; affect; masculinity; domophobia; masculinity in crisis; separate spheres; fatherhood; Joyce Carol Oates; Rick Moody; Philip Roth; John Updike; Richard Yates; John Cheever.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : Suburbia has made a powerful return in American literature of the past two decades. This renaissance of suburban fictional narrative bears the signum of alienated, anxious, and resentful white middle-class men in gray flannel suits that has remained since the formative postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Off the grid

    Författare :Mike Bode; Staffan Schmidt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; artistic research; visual concepts; situated image; dialogue; ecological and political engagement; off grid living; housing estate suburbia; travel; self-definition; community; institution; isomorphic; lived third space;

    Sammanfattning : Off the grid is an artistic research thesis which puts a Swedish housing estate in a video interview dialogue with homeowners in the Northeastern US through focusing on three topics: travel, self-definition, and community. Based on the situated, visual and conceptual image the project merges seemingly incompatible experiences: eight residents in Husby, an immigrant community outside Stockholm, and eight households not connected to the utility grid, in upstate areas of New England and New York State – and two artistic researchers at University of Gothenburg. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Exploring Perceptions of Route Environments in Relation to Walking

    Författare :Dan Andersson; Peter Schantz; Lina Wahlgren; Eva Andersson; Maria Johansson; Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicin Teknik; Medicine Technology;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Every walk takes place in a route environment, which can play an important role in deterring or facilitating walking. The focus of this thesis is on the perceptions of environmental variables, and how they relate to appraisals of route environments as hindering – stimulating for walking and unsafe – safe for reasons of traffic, in two metropolitan environments. LÄS MER

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

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Att göra förort : Om språkliga resurser hos gymnasieungdomar med mångspråkig förortsbakgrund

    Författare :Karin Senter; Björn Melander; Ellen Bijvoet; Rickard Jonsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :multilingual urban areas; suburban slang; suburban Swedish; contemporary urban vernacular; identity; positioning; gender; ethnicity; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with positionality among adolescents from multilingual urban areas, and the construction of “suberbness”. Suburb, as in “suberbness”, refers to multilingual, socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in the outskirts of Swedish urban districts. LÄS MER