Sökning: "compact city"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden compact city.
1. Compact sprawl : Exploring public open space and contradictions in urban density
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
2. Patterning the Dutch Compact City
Sammanfattning : A major challenge to town planners in Britain is to help fulfil current and future housing need in a sustainable manner and avoid excessive development land take.This thesis therefore establishes what future development models are currently under debate and undertakes extensive research into Governments preferred option the 'Compact City'. LÄS MER
3. På spaning efter den goda staden : om konstruktioner av ideal och problem i svensk stadsbyggnadsdiskussion
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation constructions of contemporary urban ideals are in focus, starting from the understanding that they are constructed in relation to both an idea of an urban renaissance and one ofa dissolving, or sprawling, city. The aim of the dissertation is to investigate and analyse how the city and the urban are discursively constructed in contemporary Swedish urban planning discussion. LÄS MER
4. Staging urban emergence through collective creativity: Devising an outdoor mobile augmented reality tool
Sammanfattning : The unpredictability of global geopolitical conflicts, economic trends, and impacts of climate change, coupled with an increasing urban population, necessitates a more profound commitment to resilience thinking in urban planning and design. In contrast to top-down planning and designing for sustainability, allowing for emergence to take place seems to contribute to a capacity to better deal with this complex unpredictability, by allowing incremental changes through bottom-up, self-organized adaptation made by diverse actors in the proximity of various social, economical and functional entities in the urban context. LÄS MER
5. Planning for emergence: Confronting rule-based and design-based urban development
Sammanfattning : Increasing urban populations, climate changes, financial instability, global conflicts, depletion of resources, and increasing land consumption all contribute to the complex and unpredictable urban challenges we are facing today. A compact urban form is promoted by global and local policies, and research has shown the benefits of dense and diverse properties for their capacity to provide complex responses to complex challenges. LÄS MER
