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1. 21. The Craftsmen's Labyrinth and Geographies of Creativity

   Författare :Jasna Seršić; Dominic Power; Johan Jansson; Ola Söderström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Craftsmen; Creativity; Continuity and Change; Crisis; Society; Space and Place; Perspective; Cartographic Reason; Labyrinth; Stonemasonry; Boatbuilding; Glassmaking; Ethnography; Narratives; Writing as a Way of Knowing; Mythopoiesis; Urbanology; Foundation of Cities; Democracy; Gift; Renaissance; Plato; Anaximander; Dante Alighieri; Divine Comedy; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The question of creativity has persisted throughout the entire history of humans, and it has held an important role in our understanding of the creation of places and cultures. Despite the fact that craftsmen have historically contributed significantly to the creation of urban landscapes and their cultures, today they are marginalized from the prevailing discourses of creativity and place-making. LÄS MER

3. 22. Staging urban emergence through collective creativity: Devising an outdoor mobile augmented reality tool

   Författare :Hyekyung Imottesjo; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Urban Rules; Emergent processes; outdoor mobile augmented reality; Compact city; Complex adaptive systems; Urban resilience; collaborative design; research-through-design;

   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

4. 23. Corporate Social Responsibility and Development : Case of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project

   Författare :Ransom Lekunze; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social geography; Development Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility CSR ; Business Ethics; Socialgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : As society today increasingly understands the impact of transnational corporate operations, an increasing recognition on the part of corporations of their responsibility for social and environmental well being of people in poor countries appears. The norm - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) grew out of such logic. LÄS MER

5. 24. Förankring och Dialog : Kraftspelet mellan planering och demokrati

   Författare :Juan Velásquez A.; Gunnel Forsberg; Irene Molina; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anchorage; dialog; Action theories; planning; situated knowledge; postcolonial theory; phronesis; system-world; life-world; place-politics; Alby; förankring; dialog; handlingsteorier; planering; situerad kunskap; postkolonial teori; fronesis; systemvärld; livsvärld; platspolitik; Alby; Afianzamiento; dialogo; teorias de accion; planeación; conocimiento situacionado; teoria postcolonial; fronesis; mundo de la vida; mundo del sistema; politica placial; Alby; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a human geography study of how local planners prepared, implemented and followed up a dialogue with the inhabitants in Alby, a multicultural community. The planners based their work on the ambition that everything that is done to develop Alby should be anchored among the residents in a democratic manner. LÄS MER

7. 25. Rural/urban redux: Conceptual problems and material effects

   Författare :Mirek Dymitrow; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rural; urban; concepts; knowledge production; geographers;

   Sammanfattning : Concepts are the basic building blocks of all knowledge, while the strength of the theories that guide any societal project is dependent on the quality those concepts. Contrarily, the utilization of questionable concepts will result in questionable material effects. LÄS MER