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11. "I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song
Sammanfattning : At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. LÄS MER
12. How the City was Owned : Property Markets, Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship in Stockholm, Sweden 1726-2018
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation three central themes concerning the ownership and allocation in the city of Stockholm over long periods are examined.The first theme property markets involves constructions of real estate price indexes spanning from 1726 to 2018. LÄS MER
13. Shaping urban environments through human selection for plant traits
Sammanfattning : Cities, as home to the majority of the world’s people, are significant sites for addressing challenges of achieving sustainability and securing human wellbeing. Urban environments are complex social-ecological systems, and meeting these challenges requires better understandings of the interactions of social and ecological elements. LÄS MER
14. Migration, Crime and Search in Spatial Markets
Sammanfattning : Search Frictions, Unemployment, and Housing in Cities: Theory and PoliciesWe propose an urban search-matching model with land development. We characterize the steady-state equilibrium and then discuss the issue of efficiency. LÄS MER
15. Energy Management in Smart Cities
Sammanfattning : Models and simulators have been widely used in urban contexts for many decades. The drawback of most current models is that they are normally designed for specific objectives, so the elements considered are limited and they do not take into account the potential synergies between related systems. LÄS MER