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Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 4382 avhandlingar innehållade ordet place.
26. 'A good place to live' : Rethinking residents' place satisfaction and the role of co-creation
Sammanfattning : Developing a place into ‘a good place to live’ for people of all ages is a prioritized issue in many municipalities in Sweden, as well as around the world. But what do we really mean by ‘a good place to live’? How do the residents themselves comprehend and perceive ‘a good place to live’? And how do municipalities view their place and what they offer to their residents? This thesis explores how ‘a good place to live’ can be understood, conceptualized and studied, and the roles co-creation and the residents themselves play in this context. LÄS MER
27. On Environmental Grounds : Outdoor Recreation, Place Relations and Environmental Sustainability
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the relationship between outdoor recreation and environmental concern as part of the wider issue of environmental sustainability in late-modern societies. It includes studies of environmentalists’ (that is environmentally committed individuals’) preferences and motivations with regard to outdoor recreation, and covers the inquiries of whether and how outdoor recreation can influence levels of environmental concern. LÄS MER
28. Modalities of Place: On Polarisation and Exclusion in Concepts of Place and in Site-Specific Art
Sammanfattning : In this thesis the notion of place is studied by way of investigating the “non-place” which is excluded or opposed, whenever a place is defined. “Non-place” is used here as a meta-concept, covering various recurring types of opposition to “place,” and it therefore represents a profoundly incoherent spect-rum of realities and concepts. LÄS MER
29. A Nice Place : The Everyday Production of Pleasure and Political Correctness at Work
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates heterosexed reality as an ongoing accomplishment by the members at a workplace. Observations were carried out sporadically for two years at a museum. During this period twelve formal interviews, fifteen informal interviews, three formal group interviews and three informal group interviews were also conducted. LÄS MER
30. Steal this place : the aesthetics of tactical formlessness and "The Free Town of Christiania"
Sammanfattning : Studien avhandlar urbana förändrings- och estetiseringsprocesser med utgångspunkt i den själv-organiserande Fristaden Christiania i Köpenhamn. Arbetshypotesen är den att ett uppmärksammande av expressiva, aktivistiska urbana representationsformer kan leda till en annan förståelse av rumslig gestaltning än den som nu dominerar planeringsfältet. LÄS MER