Sökning: "city formation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 50 avhandlingar innehållade orden city formation.
1. Transaction Spaces : Consumption Configurations and City Formation
Sammanfattning : Consumption forms and is formed by the city. How, when and where commodities are transacted is essential in this urban drama of mutual relationships. This thesis explores how consumption and everyday life in cities are interrelated. LÄS MER
2. The Global City 2.0 : An International Political Actor Beyond Economism?
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to increase our understanding of the Global City’s pursuit of what can be regarded as independent foreign and security policies, despite the fact that such policies have traditionally been considered to be a core function of central governments. By studying how the Global City’s role in the globalized world is constructed in local public narratives as the local government develops and pursues specific international policies, the thesis argues, we can come closer to an understanding of what it means to be and to govern a Global City, and why its local government find it to be in the city’s interest to claim international political authority. LÄS MER
3. De mångkulturella innerstadsskolorna : Om skolval, segregation och utbildningsstrategier i Stockholm
Sammanfattning : An educational reform was carried out in Sweden in the early 1990s. This reform involved implementing a far reaching policy of freedom of choice. LÄS MER
4. Evolving Urban Culture in Transforming Cities Architectural and Urban Design in a Fluid Context
Sammanfattning : The practice of architectural and urban design being involved in forming the space in our cities and built environments has certain effects on the social life in society that in its turn conditions the performance of the practice. The continuous changes in cities and societies, however, are just partially caused by the practice of architectural and urban design. LÄS MER
5. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation
Sammanfattning : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. LÄS MER