Essays about: "Urban fortification"

Found 3 essays containing the words Urban fortification.

1. 1. Myttingelinjen : att omvandla ett nedlagt försvarsområde

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

   Author : Jonas Åkerström; [2015]
   Keywords : landskapsarkitektur; Värmdö; försvarsanläggningar; ruiner; omgestaltning;

   Abstract : Syftet med detta examensarbete är att visa på möjligheter att förändra nedlagda försvarsanläggningar för att skapa platser till glädje för allmänheten. Under 1900-talet har Sveriges militärmakt producerat en mängd platser som idag är övergivna. READ MORE

3. 2. The Urban Spaces of fear : How the perceived spaces in Rio de Janeiro contribute to urban exclusion and fortification.

   University essay from Latinamerika-institutet

   Author : Erick Modén; [2013]
   Keywords : Urban fortification; urban exclusion; scanscape; Rio de Janeiro; Los Angeles; drug war; gated communities; social spaces; abstract spaces.;

   Abstract : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second biggest city is both seen as a leisurely paradise and a dangerous drug-warzone at the same time, two contra-dictory spatial images. In Rio de Janeiro, the urban conflict between the rich, formal city and the favela and the police and the favela has produced an abstract spatial image of the favela and its residents as being violent. READ MORE

4. 3. Vallgravsstråket

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

   Author : Hana Han; [2010-06-29]
   Keywords : integrated conservation; built environments; local identity; urban morphology;

   Abstract : The subject of empirical study is Vallgravsstråket, an urban space with squares, parks and open spaces that was created in the place of the Gothenburg’s original fortification in the 19th century. The study can be discerned with two moments. READ MORE