Sökning: "urban transformations"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden urban transformations.
1. Vestiges of urban spirit : Isfahan's urban fabric through socio-spatial transformations
Sammanfattning : The city of Isfahan, one of the most historic urban settlements in Iran, has undergone dramatic socio-spatial transformations during the recent decades, beginning with the modernization programs of the 1920s. While the urban structure of Isfahan was the outcome of a process over centuries of incremental evolution, a new mode of place making and street patterns was imposed on the historic fabric of the city within the space of only a few decades. LÄS MER
2. The answers you seek will never be found at home : Reflexivity, biographical narratives and lifestyle migration among highly-skilled Estonians
Sammanfattning : Det övergripande syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka förhållandet mellan migration, reflexivitet och social klass. I fokus för den empiriska analysen står högt kvalificerade estniska emigranter. Reflexivitet har hittills inte varit ett viktigt begrepp i migrationsstudier. LÄS MER
3. Attractiveness in Urban Design : A study of the production of attractive places
Sammanfattning : This research project investigates the production of attractive places, through theory form and everyday life. The research study was originally sprung from practical questions regarding the extensive use of the term attractiveness in urban planning and design. LÄS MER
4. Sköra stadslandskap: planeringsmetoder för att öppna urbaniseringens rumsliga inlåsningar
Sammanfattning : Spatial lock-ins may hinder the physical environment from adapting to new conditions and thereby risk to inhibit necessary change in society and reproduce current structures.This process reinforces uneven geographic development and urban interpretive prerogative. LÄS MER
5. Code Optimisation Techniques for Lazy Functional Languages
Sammanfattning : This thesis describes a complete compiler back-end for lazy functional languages, which uses various interprocedural optimisations to produce highly optimised code. The most important contributions of this work are the following. LÄS MER