Essays about: "life in a metro city"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words life in a metro city.

  1. 1. Inflexible Patterns : Kay Fiskers Plads and the Fight for Quality Public Space

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Bergen Jome; [2022]
    Keywords : Plaza; square; entrepreneurial urban planning; transportation-based planning; organizational ambidexterity; dead urban space; office and retail park; design; quality of outdoor space;

    Abstract : Kay Fiskers Plads lies at the junction of Copenhagen’s south-bound  metro line, M1, and the Øresundtog train route connecting the city with Malmö, Sweden across the Øresund channel. Surrounding the plaza are Scandinavia’s largest shopping mall, Fields, Neroport offices, Sweden’s Ferring Pharmaceuticals branch and office spaces owned by KLP Ejendomme, a Norwegian based real estate firm. READ MORE

  3. 2. Promoting 'Age-Friendly' Cities : Assessing Elderly Perceptions of Public Spaces

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Daniel Blyth; [2019]
    Keywords : Age-Friendly; Public Spaces; Visual Methods;

    Abstract : Understanding the features of urban public spaces that attract or exclude elderly residents is becoming an increasingly pressing concern in cities across the world. The present study is underpinned by the aim to uncover the desires, needs, values, uses and aspirations of elderly residents in public spaces across Stockholm. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gatan är död, länge leve staden : en kritisk granskning av bilstaden och en vision för en framtida bilfri innerstad för Malmö

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

    Author : Georg Krüger; [2018]
    Keywords : bilfri stad; bilfri stadsplanering; hållbar stadsplanering; landskapsarkitektur; Malmö; bilism; people space; cyklism; yta;

    Abstract : Den fria platsmarken, “ytan mellan husen” eller helt enkelt - gatan utgör i grova drag hälften av många västerländska städers totala yta, Sverige inkluderat. Ungefär 65% av denna yta upptas i sin tur idag av biltrafiken genom sk. blandtrafik och parkering. READ MORE

  5. 4. „The Cost of Densification“ : Densification Processes and its Socio-spatial Effects in Santiago de Chile

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Patrizia Kopp; [2018]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : As the title already says the thesis will examine the densification processes and its socio-spatial effects in Santiago de Chile. This thesis has been written in cooperation with a research internship at the Universidad Católica in Santiago at the institute of urban and regional studies. READ MORE

  6. 5. IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony

    University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

    Author : Johanna Bratel; Stina Hellqvist; [2011]
    Keywords : Bangalore; enabling strategies; gentrification; India; integration; landscape architecture; slum upgrading;

    Abstract : The world is urbanizing and many cities in developing countriesare unable to accommodate the masses of new city residents.Slums are an immediate response to this process, and in Indiaover 50% of the urban population lives in slums. READ MORE