Essays about: "urban deformation"

Found 4 essays containing the words urban deformation.

  1. 1. Waste[d] Love[s]_Restor[y]ing Fyli Landfill

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)

    Author : Vasiliki Zotou; [2020]
    Keywords : landfill; waste; restoration; ecologies; fiction;

    Abstract : Current practices of landfill restoration can be characterised as anthropocentric, violent and unsuccessful gestures of purification and control, while they erase traces of planetary history and habitats generated by waste and dirt. The dominant notion of landfill restoration insists on a concept of humans as directors of geo-bio flow who are capable of controlling and reversing the dirty chaos they created. READ MORE

  3. 2. Towards an Interactive Winter City- New Directions for Kiruna

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Wrishitesh Sarkar; [2020]
    Keywords : winter city; Kiruna; Sweden; Lapland; urban deformation; interactive urban spaces; sustainable urban design; climate comfort; summer; winter; landscape; urban strategies; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Kiruna, the northernmost city in the sub-arctics of Sweden, is currently witnessing an unprecedented deformation and reformation of the urban form due to the ongoing erosion of the land mass. This has made it necessary to move the city centre around 3 kilometres to the east. READ MORE

  4. 3. Study on ongoing subsidence in Uppsala City using Sentinel-1 radar data

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : Jonas Fryksten; [2019]
    Keywords : InSAR; PSI; precise leveling; validation; clay;

    Abstract : Many cities in Sweden are partly located on clay and because of that, some urban city centres are undergoing significant subsidence. To measure subsidence in cities, precise leveling has been the traditional technique, but the interest for the Persistent Scatter InSAR (PSI) technique has increased in the last years, in this application. READ MORE

  5. 4. Mining the City : Urban Transformation and the Loss of City Space in Kiruna, Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Richard Karlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Urban anthropology; mining; space; place; urban planning; affect;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the urban transformation and deformation caused by the expansion of the local Kiirunavaara mine in Kiruna, Sweden. In 2004, the local mining company, LKAB, announced that rapid ground deformations had been discovered in central Kiruna and that buildings and residents would have to be relocated in order for production to continue. READ MORE