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1. 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

   Författare :Anna Stibe; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arjun Appadurai; Githa Hariharan; Vikram Chandra; Amit Chaudhuri; the production of locality; work of the imagination; agency; haunting; storytelling; secularism; Indian English literature; cities.; English; Engelska;

   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

3. 12. How the City was Owned : Property Markets, Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship in Stockholm, Sweden 1726-2018

   Författare :Klas A. M. Eriksson; Rodney Edvinsson; Bo Franzén; Christian Sandström; Erik Lakomaa; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; real estate; law; private property; public property; Stockholm; PBL; planning and building law; urban; Sweden; New Institutional Economics; long-term; mixed methods; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; 21st century; general; specific; formulations; entrepreneurship; regulations; sharing; owning; digital entrepreneurship; digital innovation; cities; agglomeration; institutional entrepreneurship; field conditions; regulatory capture; price index; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

   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

4. 13. Shaping urban environments through human selection for plant traits

   Författare :Julie Goodness; Erik Andersson; Thomas Elmqvist; Pippin M. L. Anderson; Sarel Cilliers; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cape Town; cities; ecosystem services; environmental management; functional traits; interdisciplinary; landscaping preferences; residential landscapes; social-ecological system; Stockholm; traits; urban ecology; Kapstaden; städer; kulturella ekosystemtjänster; ekosystemtjänster; miljöförvaltning; funktionella egenskaper; tvärvetenskaplig; anläggningspreferenser; bostadsmiljö; socialekologiska system; Stockholm; växtegenskaper; urban ekologi; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

   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

5. 14. Migration, Crime and Search in Spatial Markets

   Författare :Wei Xiao; Yves Zenou; Peter Rupert; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Search; Unemployment; Cities; Crimes; Rural-urban migration; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   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

7. 15. Energy Management in Smart Cities

   Författare :Christian Francisco Calvillo Munoz; Lennart Söder; Alvaro Sanchez; José Villar; Rafael Cossent; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Energy system model; Smart city; Distributed energy resources; Distributed generation; EV; Metro; Energy markets; Planning and operation model; Energy Technology; Energiteknik;

   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