The aim is to design a module for living which is flexible in a bigger context, which could condens the city and to answer the questions: How is it possible to make a livingmodule where the compact living theme works in an everyday situation? How is it possible to make one module which is able to function in several different situations? The process in solving problem has been characterized of trial and error: design a module and learn from the mistakes and take the knowledge to the next module. This is the way I have worked until I found a good solution. As a result I can show an efficient module which has several nice values of space and that is flexible and to some part adjust for a disabled person. It can on several ways condens the city.

Sweden was transformed to a democratic industrial society in the late 19th century. Political influence had been bound to the four estates, nobles, clergy, burghers and farmers. The reforms of the 1860s moved Sweden towards political democracy with universal suffrage. At the national level a two-chamber parliament was established in 1866. Political power should now be a function of economic status.

In the profession of architects there is an element called architectural competitions, where several architects compete in submitting the best solution for a certain task. In this master?s thesis I am studying the competitor?s perspective of an international architectural competition, while at the same time gaining experiences for my future career as a landscape architect. The aim of this thesis is to through an introspection of my own process examine a competitors view of the international architectural competition and how to approach the difficulties concerning international competitions. Through that I hope obtain experience about the international competition as part of the profession of landscape architects and other involved professions. To examine a competitor?s reflection of an international competition, I entered and competed in LE:NOTRE Student Competition, a competition for students where the task was to develop 25 kilometers of complex urban periphery along a chain of natural and artificial lakes in Bucharest, Romania.

The paper is a thesis made by three students in the engineering program at Jönköping School of engineering. The thesis was overseen by the urban planning office and features data from Jönköping County.The purpose of the thesis is to improve future central districts by improvement of work methods. The aim of this thesis is, through an evaluation of process mapping, develop a model for systematical work methods with better experience feedback in the urban planning. The following three questions have been answered:? How is the process mapping of the urban planning in Jönköping County built today and how did it affect the current district Kålgården?? How can the urban planning of Jönköping improve with a more systematical work method with better experience feedback?? How can critics elaborate the developed method to make it enough stable and in general applicable method to enforce on future districts?Literature studies and interviews were made to review the work methods of the office of urban planning as well as how their experience feedback works.

Vätternrundan is an annual sporting event that takes place in the Swedish town Motala since 1966. It is one of the world largest recreational bicycle rides and attracts over 20 000 participants each year. This study focuses on event effects and how an event can be of value within the principles of place marketing. Within this study five representatives were interviewed with semi-structured interviews.The results show that the representatives describe Vätternrundan as a positive event which mostly generates positive effects for the city itself and for the people living and working there. The effects consist of the events ability to create awareness of the place, the possibility to extend the tourism season and several social effects like solidarity and interaction.The result also shows that Vätternrundan is a well-known brand and because of this it can be used as an advantage in place marketing.

I mars 2012 öppnade ett nytt köpcentrum i Stockholm city med ett nytänkande och nischat koncept. Det är uttalat från fastighetsägaren som utvecklat detta köpcentrum att ingen av de stora kedjorna skulle vara en del av hyresgästmixen. Det annorlunda konceptet gjorde det intressant att se hur fastighetsägare i Stockholms innerstad arbetar och konkurrerar med sitt utbud i köpcentrum.Inledningsvis gjordes en genomgående litteraturstudie inom ämnet och från tidigare rapporter visar det sig att köpcentrumen i Sverige anses likriktade till sitt utbud. Likriktningen kan bland annat härledas till att de stora butikskedjorna tar stora marknadsandelar och ofta väljer att etablera sig i köpcentrum. Detta anses kunna bli ett storstadsproblem, då det i storstäder finns många köpcentrum för kunden att välja bland.

European cities of today are under the challenge to find ways to stay competitive and flourish in a rapidly changing world, where the old patterns of centrality and periphery not necessarily holds true. New and improved communication networks, a changed political geography in Europe, and the globalisation of not only the financial and industrial markets but also to a certain extent the globalisation of people, have all led to great challenges for cities and regions.In a changed spatial reality the classic monocentric models are challenged by newer models of urbanisation. The polycentric urban region is one such model which has been used to describe urban regions like the Randstad in the Netherlands and the Rhein-Ruhr region in Germany. Regions which lack the single dominant central city of the monocentric models of old, and instead shows a high degree of more equal-sized and sometimes more specialised cities in regional cooperation. The polycentric urban region is in that aspect a possible model for how other urbanised regions in Europe may act to be able to position themselves as attractive urban regions and regional hubs in the European urban network.Polycentric urban regions are not a universal solution, though.

This thesis explores how the city of Gothenburg integrates and use social capital, defined through factors such as trust and cooperative networks, in its crisis preparedness strategies and how this can enhance the city's collective resilience. The study aims to contribute to the understanding of how social capital can be leveraged to strengthen crisis management and resilience in urban environments. The research analyzes existing quantitative data from the SOM-Institute regarding residents perceptions and self-reported preparedness actions and reviews Gothenburg's official civil defense plan for 2024?2027. By examining various aspects of social capital, including levels of trust and cooperative networks across different city districts and age groups, the analysis focuses on how social bonds and community contexts are considered in planning for handling and recovering from potential crises.

There are mainly two ways to transform the design of an existing park. You could either make a replanning of the park, an act that changes the design and the plant material in one swoop. Or you could use the management to change the expression of the park. To be able to develop the parks with the help of management, some form of goal is needed, that can make the management of the park strive towards an expression for the whole park as well as its individual parts. Among the documented goals, for individual parks and park management, which exist in the municipalities today, there seems to be a weak link between the all-embracing goals and the management that is carried out in the parks.

This is a qualitative research paper, which aims to examine how religion classes are conducted in inner-city and suburban schools. Interviews have been performed with two religion teachers, one at Grindtorp School in Alby and one at the English Gymnasium in Södermalm. There have been performed interviews with eight students, four from each school. The students have a different age, sex and religious beliefs. With these interviews we can get a better understanding how the students of today?s school think about the religious education.

Residential estates are created without any adaptation to the users who will use them. Clients wouldprofit on involving users in an early project stage to create housing estates adapted to the user?s needsand wishes. Clients of the housing estates that require missions from consultants should realize that noone exclusive can represent other people's needs, regardless of the theoretical expertise they possess. TheSwedish million programme in the 1970s is an example of how objective expertise gained control, whichled to the creation of outdoor environments where few wanted to stay and live.

Old industrial sites bear witness of the unsustainable industrial developments in the past. Today many of them stand abandoned and empty, old structures lacking function in our present society. We have in this thesis participated in a visionary student competition arranged by IFLA, International Federation of Landscape Architecture by developing a proposal based on a vision of how Stockholm can stimulate a greener development. We have done this by turning an unsustainable industrial site in the city into an ecological node; Arboretum Lövholmen. Our aim is to develop an entry for IFLA?s visionary student competition by creating a new sustainable design for the industrial area of Lövholmen in Stockholm. We have worked with the following research questions: How can we create a visionary design proposal for Lövholmen that promotes sustainable development with the help of ecological design? How can the competition format be a design tool? How can the working process developing a competition entry progress? The competition demands have shaped our working process and functioned as a platform for the structure of this thesis.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att komplettera tidigare forskning gjord av Rosalind Gill, Kim Akass och Janet McCabe, samt två skrivna C-uppsatser i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap av Paulina Bånge och Cecilia Samuelsson, om tv-serien Sex and the City. Vilket görs genom att studera könsroller och karaktärsutveckling hos de kvinnliga och manliga huvudkaraktärerna. Uppsatsen ska undersöka karaktärsutvecklingen och identifieringen av de fyra kvinnliga huvudkaraktärerna samt de tre manliga huvudkaraktärerna i Sex and the City. Undersökningen ska utföras enligt en tolkande innehållsanalysmetod med hjälp av Peter Berglez metod för kritisk diskursanalys i Ekström & Larssons bok Metoder i kommunikationsvetenskap samt Norman Faircloughs metod för diskursanalys i Media Discourse. Analysen görs med fokus på likheter, skillnader och teman.

The purpose of this study was to investigate pupils' and teachers' experiences of using the simulator computer game Minecraft in connection with the Swedish school competition Future City. The study examines how students (ages 14-15) and teachers have experienced the use of Minecraft, what the students have learned in relation to everyday education and the different forms of education during Future City and also examine which patterns that exists in the experiences of the students, with personal interest of and knowledge of Minecraft as a benchmark. The study was conducted through individual semi-structured interviews with both students and teachers. The analysis of the results is based upon a theoretical perspective that includes a socio-cultural view of learning, as well as the lines of reasoning in previous research about computer games and learning. As a general approach towards the study, and in a way, a justification of the chosen research method, a hermeneutic approach was used.

Uppslaget till denna uppsats kom till vid en diskussion med anställda på konsumentvägledningen på Rådrummet i Karlstad. Diskussionen fördes med anledning av den förlängning av reklamationstiden från två till tre år, som gjordes i Konsumentköplagen 1 april 2005.Uppsatsen är baserad på en undersökning gjord för att belysa kunskaperna i reklamationsrätt och konsumenträtt bland butikerna i Bergvik och Mitt i City i Karlstad. Genom att få kännedom om de kunskaper som finns bland butikerna kan åtgärder sättas in om så skulle visa sig vara nödvändigt, exempelvis om resultatet skulle visa sig vara dåligt kan eventuella åtgärder för utbildning och liknande erbjudas. En liknande undersökning har tidigare gjorts utanför Göteborg av GP Konsument, och den har varit till stor hjälp för vår undersökning.Vår uppsats är koncentrerad till de köp som konsumenter gör för privat bruk från näringsidkare direkt i butik.Konsumenträttsliga lagar och regler har skapats för att stödja konsumenter och förbättra deras ställning på marknaden. Konsumentköplagen garanterar konsumenten ett minimiskydd som denne alltid har vid köp från en näringsidkare.För att få svar på vad de anställda i butikerna känner till om Konsumentköplagens regler har vi gjort en undersökning bestående av nio frågor som vi ställde till en anställd i varje deltagande butik i Bergvik samt Mitt i City.