Essays about: "spatial appropriation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words spatial appropriation.

  1. 11. Activating Vancover's Laneways : Re: Imagining the Downtown Eastsides Under-Utilised Public Spaces

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Samuel Owen Cameron; [2013]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : As a departure point for this thesis project, I retain a duality of presuppositions. The first maintains that the city of Vancouver’s laneways have long existed as under-utilised and under-appreciated, in-between spaces; hidden in plain site (Loukaitou-Sideris 1996), often deteriorating and habitually prevailing in a dilapidated state of disrepair. READ MORE

  3. 12. Advertising Space : illustrating the spatial impact of urban outdoor advertising

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Carl Oelreich von; [2013]
    Keywords : outdoor; out-of-home; advertising; space; illustrations;

    Abstract : Advertising is a phenomenon that shapes the image of many urban spaces today and has done so for the past two hundred years at least. Its impact has been described both academically and in the work of artists. In this paper I observe the impact of outdoor advertising on space through a series of photography walks. READ MORE

  4. 13. Central Peripheries: speculation and strategy for a land less mentioned

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Henrik Olsson; [2012]
    Keywords : landscape; landscape architecture; network; peri-urban; terrain vague; process oriented design; creative mapping; gamification;

    Abstract : As the contemporary discourse surrounding urbanism is almost exclusively focusing on aspects of density and traditional urban qualities, it entrenches notions of what constitutes a proper city and countryside. But beyond this urban-rural dichotomy is another highly contemporary landscape. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Construction of Space: Spatial Considerations for the Contemporary Debate on Property Rights and the Informal Economy

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

    Author : Jordan Perrault; [2012]
    Keywords : social institution; appropriation; Lefebvre; Social Space; Informal Economy; Property Rights; de Soto; Development; Representations of space; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Property rights systems and their relationship to the informal spaces are a contested and highly relevant part of contemporary development discourse. This study explores the reproduction of the concept of the informal in urban space. READ MORE

  6. 15. The Inhabitants’ Reinterpretation of Spatial Structures in Hay Hassani, Casablanca

    University essay from Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Andrea Kurzbein; [2011]
    Keywords : modernist architecture; Casablanca; Hay Hassani; phronetic research; power relations; informal appropriation and transformation;

    Abstract : Casablanca was long time perceived as laboratory for European architects to experiment with modernist mass housing. Yet, the spatial structure has since then been considerably transformed and appropriated by the inhabitants to respond to the requirements and aspirations of everyday life. READ MORE