Essays about: "modernist housing estates"
Found 2 essays containing the words modernist housing estates.
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1. Against Singularity : Modernist housing estates: What went wrong and how can we fix it? Case Study of Norsborg, Botkyrka, Sweden
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : In my thesis I look into the case of modernist mass housing estates. They appear as a typological, functional and visual anomaly relative to the traditional urban fabric of European urban centers, as a world of its own or a city inside of a city. READ MORE
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2. Social Capital in Kungsmarken : An overview of influencing factors in Karlskrona, Sweden
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesignAbstract : This thesis is a quest to identify the factors that influence social capital in one spatially isolated, multi-ethnic neighborhood, Kungsmarken. The commonly held view that many Modernist-style housing estates have evolved into dead-end areas that breed social ills and require endless outside assistance (Jane Jacobs), does not contain the whole truth. READ MORE