Sökning: "urban ideals"
Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden urban ideals.
26. Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology
Sammanfattning : In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. LÄS MER
27. Stadens struktur : varför och hur?
Sammanfattning : Why do cities appear the way they do? What are the underlying forces that contribute to its built environment and transport system? What/whom are the factors/actors that influence the ways in which the city is shaped? How can the international differences in the shape of cities be explained? The driving forces that shape the city are numerous and complex. City structure, has through the ages, been influenced by new technologies, social agencies and planning ideals. LÄS MER
28. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. LÄS MER
29. Att sträcka ut sig i staden : En studie om social reproduktion, parkplanering och re-kreation i västra Kungsholmens parker
Sammanfattning : Social reproduction is a multifaceted concept that encompasses the practices, processes and places through which individuals and societies reproduce themselves. This thesis examines social reproduction by looking at restorative and relaxing practices and place experiences – what I dub re-creation – in urban parks in Stockholm. LÄS MER
30. "We are like Chameleons" : Changing Mediascapes, Cultural Identities and City Sisters in Dar es Salaam
Sammanfattning : The consequences of expanding mediascapes and processes of cultural globalisation during the early 21st century is the focus of this thesis. The author has conducted extensive field studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. LÄS MER
