Essays about: "everyday"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 2054 essays containing the word everyday.

1. 11. Planning neighbourhoods for local living. New Urbanism ideas in practice

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

   Author : Vejuna Zalalyte; [2023-11-20]
   Keywords : neighbourhood; urban planning; density; mixed-use; walkability; access to services; local living; travel behaviour; behaviourism; New Urbanism;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the effect of New Urbanist planning theory on facilitating sustainable local living behaviours in inner city neighbourhoods. Drawing on the empirical evidence of two New Urbanist neighbourhoods in Lithuania and Sweden, the residents’ everyday lived experiences of the key guiding New Urbanist principles of density, mixed land use and walkability are explored. READ MORE

3. 12. “You can not pay my rent forever” Voices from Dandora: Exploring Perspectives on Slum Tourism through Resident, Tour Guide, and Swedish Tourist Experiences

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Linnea Reuterberg; [2023-10-26]
   Keywords : Slum tourism; Kenya; Sweden; Dandora; Neocolonialism; Dependency;

   Abstract : In line with the increase of Globalisation, the demand for more unconventional tourism has been on a rise during the last decades. More Western tourists want to get insight into the everyday life of citizens in the country they are visiting. READ MORE

4. 13. QUEER PARENTHOOD ACROSS TEMPORAL AND SOCIAL LINES; An anthropological study on queer individuals experiences of parenthood in Swedish society

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Emma Eliardsson; [2023-09-27]
   Keywords : Queer parenthood; parental line; temporality; emotionality; kinship;

   Abstract : This study aims to examine the everyday experience of queer parenthood, relating to aspects of gender and sexuality, family relations, and social norms in Swedish society. The study reveals that being a queer parent in contemporary Swedish society means being in an ambivalent position where factors of time and space, as well as gender identity and expression proves to be a leading force in how the parents practice parenthood and whether the political aspect of queerness comes to be consciously or unconsciously expressed within parenthood. READ MORE

5. 14. THE NEW ERA OF HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY? LIFESTYLE, FREEDOM AND COMMUNITY; A social anthropological study about how living in a co-housing building can affect the elderly’s quality of life and freedom.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Teresita Stamm Alfredsson; [2023-09-27]
   Keywords : Co-housing; Elderly; Quality of life;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the elderly’s choice to change their housing situation and their option to move to a co-housing building. Cohousing is a type of housing arrangement that promotes social contact and community between the neighbors. READ MORE

6. 15. Teleworking and the Countryside. An explorative thesis regarding telework as an enabler for residential relocations and life in the countryside

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

   Author : Joel Böhm; [2023-08-04]
   Keywords : teleworking; residential relocations; residential mobility; living countryside; work-life balance; co-working spaces;

   Abstract : The research on teleworking, and its spatial implications, is well explored. However, anticipations of a rising diffusion of teleworking never really got actualised, until a global pandemic emerged, and redrew the map of teleworking considerably. READ MORE