We are daily using the public space to move throughout the city. The public space is an important part of our city and it?s where a lot of social activities occur and a lot of different events take place. The outdoor environment in the city should offer the residents nice and varying places for staying. In this essay I will try to understand how the physical environment works and how people moves and behave in the public space.

Design management Àr ett arbetssÀtt som har börjat tillÀmpas av allt fler företag de senaste Ären, men det kan fortfarande vara svÄrt att förstÄ betydelsen av design management. I uppsatsen undersöks det vilken betydelse en design managers kompetens och position har för samarbetet mellan det designköpande företaget och en designkonsult under ett designinköp. Genom ett flertal intervjuer, utifrÄn bÄde design managers och designkonsulters perspektiv, undersöks det hur samarbetet fungerar mellan dessa parter. En analys av intervjumaterial med hjÀlp av en teoretisk referensram bestÄende av design management-teori, design som en integrerad process och beslutsrollsteori har lett fram till ett antal slutsatser om design management. NÄgra av slutsatserna Àr att design management, enligt teorierna, som arbetssÀtt inte Àr sÄ vanligt och att det finns en viss samarbetsbrist enligt de intervjuade designkonsulterna, som i viss mÄn underlÀttas om design managern har kunskap om vad design innebÀr..

The aim of this study is to look at censorship and attempted censorship of books about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) people in public libraries in the USA. People from the public can submit formal challenges to a book at the library when they find the material offensive which can lead to those books being taken away from the library shelves. The questions asked are why GLBT- literature is being challenged, and sometimes banned, and how do the libraries deal with the challenges to the books.It is nowadays the people from the public, rather than the government or the librarians that are behind many cases of removal of books with homosexual themes. The study presents some of the fictional GLBT- literature that has been cause for much controversy in the USA. All the five examples mentioned are children?s books concerning GLBT- themes and are among the most challenged books in American libraries in the past twenty years.

The tsunami in Thailand in 2004, 9/11 and hurricane Katrina in New Orleans 2005 are all reminders that no organization is immune to crises, which also means that all organizations should be prepared and know how to handle a crisis if one was to occur. A case study has been conducted, on a crisis regarding a fire that occurred on the 31st of July 2014 in VÀstmanland, Sweden. Through Qualitative interviews empirical data was gathered and then analyzed together with our theories and previous research. The purpose of the study is to analyze how the municipalities affected and the County Administrative Board of Sweden handled and communicated with/to the public during the fire that spread in VÀstmanland 2014. Our study shows that a risk analysis and analysis of surroundings is crucial in anticipating a crisis event and that it is essential for organizations to undergo training to prepare organization members on how to handle a crisis. Another conclusion is that the need for information is large during a crisis event and grows throughout the entire course of the crisis. The crisis that we studied had a lack of information, but at the same time the public?s need for information is a need that can?t be satisfied during a crisis.

This thesis investigates how energy is used in three public baths today and suggests measures that could reduce the energy demand. The results show that there is a great poteltial for energy savings i public baths, and that it would be interesting to examine some of the proposed measures further..

Syftet Àr att beskriva och analysera VBM ochBSC samt diskutera möjligheten att integreradessa. Studien bygger pÄ en kvalitativ metod dÀrteoretiska begrepp inom Value BasedManagement och Balanced Scorecard analyserasoch jÀmförs med empiriska undersökningar iform av intervjuer. Kombinationen av VBM och BSC resulterar i ett lÀmpligt styrverktyg för mÄnga företag. Det Àr ingen perfekt kombination. Koncepten kompletterar dock varandra och ger en mer heltÀckande bild av företagets verksamhet och strategiska möjligheter..

Bakgrund och problem: Kritiken mot en alltför byrÄkratisk och ineffektiv offentlig sektor ledde till att New Public Management vÀxte fram i Sverige i slutet pÄ 1980-talet. Detta inne-bar stora förÀndringar, med fokus pÄ bl.a. kostnadskontroll och resultatmÀtning för att öka effektiviteten. Verksamheterna adopterade Àven ekonomistyrningsmodeller som ursprung-ligen utvecklats för den privata sektorn. Vissa offentliga verksamheter, inte minst sjukvÄrden, har varit och Àr Àn idag utsatta för finansiella problem, ökad konkurrens och allmÀnhetens krav pÄ bÀttre kvalitet.

The aim of this issue is to study how Swedish public libraries deal with the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of information in connection with public use of the Internet. The authors intention has been to find out whether the public use of the Internet has caused ethical problems for library workers and how the libraries solve situations when they consider their principles violated by library users. The authors study the debate on the issue in a couple of Swedish library magazines published during the late 1990s and they also give a few examples from the USA during the same period. They study the ethical principles and directives for schools published by the Swedish Board of Education as they claim that many of the public library users are students who bring along their ethical conceptions and thereby affect the ethical climate of the libraries. In their study the authors refer to ethical rules given to librarians by their trade union DIK and to the conclusions drawn from the hearing Good Ethics on the Net held by the Swedish IT Commission in 1998.

This report is written in cooperation with Eskilstuna municipality public administration for urban planning. The reports purpose is to look into how other public authorities carry out public purchase of consultants and entrepreneurs in the urban planning area. The goal is to come up with suggestions of how Eskilstuna municipality public administration for urban planning can improve its purchasing process in this field in order to minimize the risk where a consultant or entrepreneur files an appeal against the decision of awarding a contract to another rival. The appeal can be filed to the county administrative court.The public administration for urban planning can do its purchases through the model of "lowest price" or "economically most favorable" for them. When using "economically most favorable", the department can value a number of soft parameters by giving them points and the offer which gets most points can be rewarded the right to sign a contract.

Den offentliga sektorn har reformerats genom att adoptera principerna för New Public Management vilket har inneburit att svenska kommuner utvecklat och prövat nya organisations- och styrmodeller för att möta marknadens och organisationernas krav pÄ ökad effektivitet. Svenska kommuner Àr icke vinstdrivande organisationer och har komplexa organisationsstrukturer pÄ grund av omfattande lagkrav. Varje förvaltning skulle i sig kunna utgöra en egen organisation pÄ grund av de varierande tjÀnsterna som lagen krÀver att kommunerna ska tillhandahÄlla. Inom svenska kommuner bryts visioner, mÄl och strategier ned pÄ varje nivÄ vilket medför en komplex styrning inom organisationen. Det huvudsakliga syftet med uppsatsen Àr att beskriva och förklara hur förvaltningar inom svenska kommuner styr sina verksamheter genom strategisk ekonomistyrning.

Den offentliga sektorn har reformerats genom att adoptera principerna för New Public Management vilket har inneburit att svenska kommuner utvecklat och prövat nya organisations- och styrmodeller för att möta marknadens och organisationernas krav pÄ ökad effektivitet. Svenska kommuner Àr icke vinstdrivande organisationer och har komplexa organisationsstrukturer pÄ grund av omfattande lagkrav. Varje förvaltning skulle i sig kunna utgöra en egen organisation pÄ grund av de varierande tjÀnsterna som lagen krÀver att kommunerna ska tillhandahÄlla. Inom svenska kommuner bryts visioner, mÄl och strategier ned pÄ varje nivÄ vilket medför en komplex styrning inom organisationen. Det huvudsakliga syftet med uppsatsen Àr att beskriva och förklara hur förvaltningar inom svenska kommuner styr sina verksamheter genom strategisk ekonomistyrning.

The purpose of this study is to examine how the editorial staff from the Swedish radio program Morgonpasset i P3 and the Norwegian radio program P3morgen uses Facebook and Twitter and how they can use social media as a tool in the production. The purpose is also to examine how active both of the editorial staff are on Facebook and Twitter and which kind of language they use on Facebook and Twitter. The radio programs both work under a lot of similar conditions and are both controlled by public service in both countries. To conduct the study qualitative interviews was performed with the web editor Christoffer Malm from Morgonpasset i P3 and the radio presenter Silje Nordnes from P3morgen in combination with a quantitative content analysis. The study was conducted over a limited period of the autumn of 2013.

This essay explores how artwork in the public space can be analysed, conceptualized and described by bringing attention to site. Through an analysis of artworks in the yearly art exhibition of Fittja Open 2011, the essay draws attention to site-specific art and structures of power. The principal aim is to present not only the exhibition of Fittja Open 2011 but also other artwork in the public sphere in Fittja, a suburb to Stockholm. From this point of departure other interests evolve that concerns the "image" of Fittja. The analysis, based on research in art history, architecture, ethnology and philosophy as well as qualitative interviews, also focuses on understanding the role of site and the relations between art practice, institutions and site.The result shows that there are problems with a ruptured interface between the artwork and site.

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The public libraries were quick to adapt to the changes that the Internet brought on, and today library websites are an important part of the public library. To meet the needs of teens today, the library website could offer a range of contents to make it an attractive place on many levels; both the academic needs as well as social and recreational needs should be addressed.The aim of this thesis is to evaluate public library websites for teenagers in Sweden, and to examine how well the websites address the developmental tasks and needs that teenagers have. The method used is website evaluation, one quantitative and one qualitative. A total of 60 public library sites for teenagers were evaluated, using 11 criteria based on Havighursts developmental tasks. The quantitative evaluation measured how many functions each website had per criteria, and showed that the majority of the sites had one or two functions for most of the criteria.