Essays about: "foreign architecture"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 33 essays containing the words foreign architecture.

  1. 21. Business Fighting Poverty: The Rise of New Private Sector Strategies in Swedish Foreign Aid

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Cecilia Helander; [2013]
    Keywords : Corporate Social Responsibility; the New Aid Architecture; Foreign Aid; Development; Sweden; Political Science; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explain the rise of CSR and the increasing private sector strategies within foreign aid in Sweden. The theoretical approach is grounded in three hypotheses that could explain the rise of this I) that the global idea on a changed role for business has fostered the development II) that it is due to a conservative more pro-business government in power or III) that it is a development due to business world influence with the means of lobbyism. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Hidden Face of Urbanity - Morphological Differentiation of Degraded and Restituted Towns in Poland in the Context of the Efficacy of the National Administrative System

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Mirek Dymitrow; [2012-10-04]
    Keywords : urbanity; urban morphology; rural-urban; degraded town; town privileges; civic rights; restitution; urbanization; revitalization; Poland; Congress Poland; 1869-70 administrative reform;

    Abstract : This master’s thesis deals with the concept of urbanity in Poland, where it coincides with a judicial, administrative understanding of urbanity. A specific of the Polish administrative system is that it utilizes town privileges – a mediaeval remnant – to symbolically define formally urban areas. READ MORE

  4. 23. Investigation of Genius Loci Theory on Historic Commercial Blocks in China

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

    Author : Wei Qian; [2012]
    Keywords : Historic Commercial block; Genius Loci;

    Abstract : As a result of economic development and globalization, cities, especially their commercial blocks, are becoming highly similar because their local culture is crashed by foreign ones. As an essential component of a city, commercial blocks represent the image of the city and have a positive value of local culture. READ MORE

  5. 24. Dubai - ett framgångsrecept eller dårskap?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Joanna Silvemark Junemar; Kristina Vikholm; [2012]
    Keywords : Dubai; ; Förenade arabemiraten; stadsutveckling; stadsplanering; stadsliv;

    Abstract : Det här examensarbetet är en fallstudie som beskriverstadsutvecklingen i staden Dubai i Förenade arabemiraten.Examensarbetet syftar till att svara på frågornaHur har Dubai stad utvecklats från och med oljansupptäckt fram till idag? och Hur ser den övergripandeplaneringen ut för Dubais framtida stadsutveckling?METOD;Vår fallstudie är en sammanvävd redogörelse av enlitteraturstudie och egna upplevelser från en studieresai Förenade arabemiraten. READ MORE

  6. 25. Inverkan av matlagning som en livsstil för arkitektur i Shanghai, Influence of cooking as a lifestyle on architecture in Shanghai

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Wenting Ma; [2011]
    Keywords : Cooking; kitchen; architecture; Shanghai; globalization; foreign architecture;

    Abstract : Shanghaiis one of the cities that are often considered to be have lost identity in globalization. Importing foreign architecture since 1978 is believed by some experts a key causal factor. According to the critical regionalism identifying typical lifestyle patterns like cooking can be a starting point to find a city identity ofShanghai. READ MORE