Essays about: "housing as commons"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words housing as commons.

1. 6. A Gentrification Story

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

   Author : Emre Erol; [2018]
   Keywords : Gentrification; Hong Kong; Rent Gap Theory; Financialisaton; Public Commons; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The housing question has been a core societal issue for centuries. Since Engels (1988) intervened in the debate in 1872, housing has become increasingly central as a commodity in financialised capitalism. READ MORE

3. 7. The Battle of the Commons. A case study of Amager Fælled

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

   Author : Mathilde Kærgaard Skaaning; [2017]
   Keywords : neoliberalisation; the right to the city; public space; urban social movements; Copenhagen; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate the motivation behind the Municipality of Copenhagen’s privatisation of public space and how an urban social movement responds to this. Through a case study of Amager Fælled, a preserved nature area in Copenhagen, Denmark, the conflict between the urban planning strategies of Copenhagen and the urban social movement Amager Fælleds Venner is examined. READ MORE

4. 8. Traditional housing in northern Laos : wood preferences and impact on the forest biodiversity

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

   Author : Erik Kretz; [2009]
   Keywords : Laos; house constructions; tropical timber; forest; deforestation;

   Abstract : The majority of the Lao people are living in a mountainous countryside in small villages. The people depend a lot on the forest for a better livelihood. However, in the last decades many changes have occurred in rural Lao, in ways that have ruined large areas of the forest. READ MORE