Essays about: "village and city"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 60 essays containing the words village and city.

  1. 21. A Village Within : An investigation of a new housing typology on rural land

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Petra Henriksson; [2018]
    Keywords : resilience; countryside; utopi; hållbarhet;

    Abstract : Abstract   This thesis will present the background and thoughts behind the architectural project “Village within” which aims to be a rural, holistic, earth-centered settlement, as an alternative to increasing urbanization. I have been working together with two villages in Västerbotten - Sikeå and Rökå - and this project is the result from meetings and discussions with them, as well as experiences from a citizen-perspective. READ MORE

  3. 22. Wrong Side of the Ridge: Charting the Urban Fabric of the Countryside

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Oscar Damerham; [2017]
    Keywords : countryside; flâneur; Planetary Urbanisation; extended urbanisation; methodological cityism; phenomenology; rural-futurism; villages;

    Abstract : Echoing through the lecture theatres, conference halls and pages of the contemporary Urban Studies discourse is the oft-repeated refrain that today over half the world?s population live in urban areas, and that by 2050 this proportion is expected to be upwards of 70%. The place of the leftover 50% of people inhabiting a vast and seemingly forgotten 98% of the planet?s rural territory is externalised, apparently lying outside the purview of marching urbanisation. READ MORE

  4. 23. Creating Urbanity – Destroying Cultures : Relationships Between Public and Private in Kathputli Colony, New Delhi

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Konstvetenskap

    Author : Tove Hansson Grönroos; [2017]
    Keywords : Informal; slum; public; urban; architecture; open; closed; private; modernism; high-rise;

    Abstract : Through the story of Kathputli Colony, thiss essay; Creating Urbanity – Destroying Cultures, Relationships Between Public and Private in Kathputli Colony, New Delhi, India, discusses various degrees of public and private in urban architecture. It compares the architecture of the former Kathputli Colony with the new architecture proposed for the site. READ MORE

  5. 24. Investigation of groundwater resources - A case study in north-west Tanzania using remote sensing analysis and groundwater simulation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Cecilia Lundqvist; [2017]
    Keywords : Groundwater resources; Remote sensing; Hydrologic budget; MOD- FLOW; Chonyonyo; Tanzania; Technology and Engineering; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Globally 884 million people depend on unsafe drinking water, of which 159 million depend on untreated surface water (WHO, 2017). In Tanzania 44% of the popula- tion lack access to safe drinking water (WaterAid, 2017). READ MORE

  6. 25. The Muslim Elite’s Perceptions of Representation in Village Panchayats (councils) Towards Local Urban Authorities : An Explorative and Descriptive Case Study of the Muslim Elite’s Perceptions of Representation in Three Villages Towards the Local City Authorities of Lucknow Chinhat (چنهٹ) Block, Uttar Pradesh, India

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Larsson; [2016]
    Keywords : representation; Uttar Pradesh; India; Muslim; panchayat; Lucknow; perceptions of representation; Kymlicka; minority group representation;

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