Essays about: "living in a rural life"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 121 essays containing the words living in a rural life.
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6. Borderland Peripheries. from dead end - to new beginning
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : It’s been 34 years ago now since the iron curtain has parted the European continent and its inhabitants in an East and a West. The analysed area for the following thesis on the border between northern Austria and southern Czechia gives a case example of a region, that is still suffering from an era, where one sky-direction has been erased from people’s everyday living and thinking – leaving the border areas as a dead end for either country. READ MORE
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7. “Känner man trygghet att man får vara på en plats, känner vi att den sociala hållbarheten ökar” : att planera för sociala interaktioner som landskapsarkitekt inom ramen för Slakthusområdets planprogram
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Sociala interaktioner anses vara en viktig del för att skapa en inkluderande och socialt hållbar stad. I Stockholm stad har segregationen ökat och möjligheterna till möten mellan olika grupper minskat. Men forskning visar att det finns möjlighet att planera för social interaktion mellan grupper i stadens offentliga rum. READ MORE
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8. Second Home, New Home
University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljöAbstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE
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9. Living in a lifeless sea : how the ecological degradation of the Baltic Sea is affecting people living in its coastal zone on Gotland
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Facing a number of different environmental problems, such as intense oxygen depletion, overfishing and various forms of marine pollution, the Baltic Sea is one of the most degraded seas on earth. While the aspects of its ecological degradation are well-researched, only few studies have focused on how the Baltic Sea’s state is affecting the 85 million people living in its coastal zone. READ MORE
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10. Lowering energy need and improving indoor climate - A case study of rural dwellings in Gammalsvenskby, Ukraine
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Energi och byggnadsdesignAbstract : A vast majority of rural dwellings in Ukraine are inefficient from an energy perspective, with a major need for energy-efficient renovations. A lot of these buildings are also having problems with the indoor climate, with poor ventilation combined with indoor combustion of fuel which can cause negative health effects. READ MORE
