Sökning: "urban ideals"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade orden urban ideals.
11. Konstruktioner av en stadskärna: Den postindustriella stadens rumsliga maktrelationer
Sammanfattning : This thesis highlights the standpoints of Swedish planning practice towards city centres and emphasises a critical power perspective in respect of the town centre development. The aim is to analyse critically how city centres are discursively constructed in contemporary Swedish urban planning and design and to enhance the understanding of what this means in respect of how spatial power relations in cities are created and consolidated. LÄS MER
12. Planering och placering : Den modernistiska stadsplaneringen och restaurangnäringens geografi i Stockholm 1930–2017
Sammanfattning : Inspired by the debate on the effects of large scale urban planning on the localization of small- and medium-sized businesses, this thesis focuses on the impact of modernist urban planning on the localization of restaurant outlets in Stockholm during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The thesis is related to several literatures, including economic geography, urban history and to some extent the twentieth century history of the restaurant business in Sweden as well as urban food consumption. LÄS MER
13. Substance or Context. A Study of the Concept of Place
Sammanfattning : During the recent decades the concept of place has been treated with intensity and frequency in architectural discourse. Much has been said about such issues as the sense of place, place versus placelessness, the loss of place and so on. LÄS MER
14. To Make Do in the City : Social Identities and Cultural Transformations among Aymara Speakers in La Paz
Sammanfattning : This study deals with cultural transformations and negotiations of social identity among urban Aymara speakers (bilingual Spanish-Aymara) in the city of La Paz in Bolivia in the last decade of the twentieth century. The main question concerns how they experience and express their sense of belonging in relation to their subordinated roles in society and the new spaces that are opened up by the democratization process. LÄS MER
15. I vinst och förlust : Köpmäns nätverk i 1500-talets Östersjöstäder
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to clarify how the merchant networks involved in the trade across the Baltic Sea interplayed with and contributed to create the economic culture of the Baltic Sea region. This is achieved by examining the economic, social, spatial and political aspects of the trade networks in relation to the social organisation of the early modern towns of Stockholm, Lübeck, Malmö and Reval (Tallinn) in the 16th century. LÄS MER