Essays about: "housing practice"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 96 essays containing the words housing practice.
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1. Publicly Disclosing Vulnerable Neighborhoods, The Costs and Consequences - Evidence from the Big City Areas of Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In recent years, the police’s listing of “vulnerable neighborhoods” in Sweden has become a highly debated topic. Intense attention has been directed toward such areas, and the social consequences of the lists have been highly debated. However, research on the economic impact of the listing practice has been given less interest. READ MORE
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2. The Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice: Social workers’ experience and acting space when implementing the Convention within the City of Gothenburg
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : The aim with this thesis is to examine how social workers, who work in short-term and long term residential housing activities within the City of Gothenburg and meet children in their work with adults, experience the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice, and their perceived circumstances related to opportunities and obstacles regarding the implementation of CRC. As such, the research question that guided the aim are: How do social worker experience that CRC works in practice? What are the social workers own experience regarding interacting and caring communicating with the children they meet? How do social workers as street-level bureaucrats experience their own acting space when working with CRC in practice? The thesis gives new insight into how children´s rights are met at different levels within the City of Gothenburg, as most previous research has focussed on social secretaires experience of the implementation of the convention, looking at social workers experience can help to get an insight into how the convention are established at different levels. READ MORE
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3. Credible and knowledgeable Enforcers
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialhögskolanAbstract : In many of Sweden’s major cities, the majority of apartments in the suburbs are managed and owned by municipality-owned public housing companies. A number of these suburbs are defined by the National Operations Branch (NOA) of the Swedish Police as vulnerable or particularly vulnerable. READ MORE
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4. A Changing Utopia : A critical analysis of a heritage of change in a Swedish 20th century single-family housing area
University essay from Uppsala universitet/KulturvårdAbstract : During the past decades there has been an increasing interest in the conservation of the cultural-historical character of 20th century single-family housing areas in Sweden. Many of these areas are characterised by the fact that they have changed significantly over time, creating highly diverse historic urban landscapes. READ MORE
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5. Digital Infrastructures for Cohousing
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This paper introduces the topic of Cohousing as a solution to the chronic housing crisis and examines how it can be supported by digital platforms, and what form they should take. The theoretical concept of platforms and infrastructure is examined in general and specifically for communities along with other co-operative practices. READ MORE
