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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Suburb.
1. Constructing the Suburb : Swedish Discourses of Spatial Stigmatisation
Sammanfattning : By exploring representations of place, this thesis treats practices of spatial stigmatisation in the context of segregated Swedish cities. In three papers, different aspects of stigmatisation and place-making are discussed and analysed, where the overarching ambition is to identify and critically deconstruct the ideology behind stigma as well as suggest ways of making representation positive. LÄS MER
2. Outdoor Mobility, Place and Older People - Everyday Mobilities in later Life in a Swedish Neighbourhood
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to offer an understanding of everyday mobilities outdoors among older persons from a place- and context-dependent perspective. The emphasis is to take a gentle approach towards an overall perspective with consideration to physical aspects (like the home neighbourhood), social aspects (like social networks and social participation) and mental aspects (like place images, mental maps and fear of crime). LÄS MER
3. Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology
Sammanfattning : In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. LÄS MER
4. Strävan efter ett ordnat samhälle : stadsplanering i Huddinge 1900-1960
Sammanfattning : Suburbs sprang up round about many Swedish towns and cities in and around 1900. For obvious reasons, they were most numerous round about the City of Stockholm. This thesis sets out to map and discuss urban planning in the suburban Stockholm municipalities between 1900 and 1960. LÄS MER
5. Stadsbarndom : Om barns vardag i en modern förort
Sammanfattning : Children's conditions in urban environments are an important theme for understanding modern childhood, yet children have rarely been asked about their views of urban childhood conditions. The aim of the dissertation is: To describe the experts' attempts to create good conditions for growing up in an urban environment. LÄS MER
