Today's planning strategy, densification of cities, makes it difficult for municipal authorities to find spaces to build preschools and daycare centers on. The Planning and Building Act , Chapter 8, § 9 states that " if the site should be developed with buildings that contain one or more dwellings or premises for after-school , preschool, school or other activities, it should be on the property or near it, enough free space which is suitable for play and being outdoors. " Each municipality has to define the expression enough free space and a number of municipalities have established guidelines for preschool and daycare centers concerning dimensions. The guidelines measure the number of square meters of free space per child with the aim of contributing to a qualitative environment. But the size is just one quality and the issue is how other non-quantifiable qualities are taken into account in the planning process. The paper compares three municipalities, Gothenburg, Malmö and Lund.

Event is something that an increasing number of Swedish cities are investing in since it contributes to higher attractiveness of cities and generate economic revenues. New arenas are built around Sweden to meet the increasing demands to host such events. Event projects are carried out in Sweden and it is important that the planning phase is carried out thoroughly to get a successful project. This thesis aims to look more closely at selected organizations and how they plan their projects and whether it is possible to follow project plans in the event projects. Karlstad has many events that recur annually, including the Swedish Rally.

This essay attempts to show a relativistic effect on the representation of motion situations. A summarize and defence for lingusitic relativity as scientifically valid and some taxonomic clarifications is initially presented. The relativistic effect is measured by using the elicitation tool Event Triads, developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The tool consists of a set of films displaying various motions. Test-subjects are asked to verbalize a situation in a way they see fit.

?Livskvalitet Karlstad 100 000? är Karlstad kommuns vision för hur Karlstad stad och kommun ska kunna uppnå 100 000 invånare. Tre av visionens fyra ledstjärnor, liksom den gällande översiktsplanen från 2006, åsyftar mestadels Karlstad stad och dess utveckling. Därför är det viktigt att poängtera utvecklingsmöjligheter för resterande orter i kommunen, såsom Väse. Väse är en landsbygdsort strategiskt belägen mellan Karlstad, Kristinehamn och Filipstad. Orten hade år 2008 1983 invånare.

Översvämningar har potentialen att göra stora skador på sociala, ekonomiska och ekonomiska aspekter i samhället och antalet översvämningar har ökat i Sverige på senare tid. Naturens miljöer klarar sig dock bättre inför naturkrafter som översvämningar på grund av att ekosystemen utvecklats under långa tidsperioder och är anpassade till föränderliga förhållanden, till skillnad från människans urbana miljöer. Naturens system är resilienta. Människan har sedan tidigare hanterat översvämningar genom att försöka stänga vattnet ute från bebyggda miljöer men sedan 1990-talet har synen ändrats till att låta vattnet ta den plats det behöver (kallas integrerad översvämningshantering). Klimatanpassning har nu blivit allt mer angeläget vid planering och stadsutveckling.

This Masters thesis is concerned with the complex planning process of setting up a citizen bureau in a public library. The aim is to find out how citizen bureaux are designed and to suggest a simplified model of strategic planning. The planning process is studied from a business perspective in the library context, and this perspective is also used to study citizen bureaux and their written plans elsewhere. A combination of qualitative methods are used: observations, focus group discussions and interviews. Observations in the public library showed a great need for an environmental analysis as well as structure to the planning process.

Urban densification as a planning strategy is of interest in the planning context of today. It is also seen as a part of the sustainable development. Urban densification as a concept is commonly used in the discussion of a sustainable development. Thus, the question about urban densification is an important challenge in the current planning context. A deeper understanding of the process which urban densification has developed from is necessary, since planners then will be more able to manage this challenge.

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.

Norra Sorgenfri är ett av de få områden som fortfarande visar spår från Malmös tid som Industristad. Under de senaste åren har Malmö genomgått en dramatisk förändring mot en mer internationell och pulserande stad med fokus på hållbarhet och god stadsmiljö. Norra Sorgenfri är nästa område att stå på tur i Malmös förnyelsearbete. Detta område är idag ett industri - och verksamhetsområde beläget strax sydost om Malmös stadskärna. På grund av att allt fler verksamheter har flyttat eller lagt ner, står idag många byggnader tomma.

In 2014-2015 a large-scale Ebola epidemic occurred in West Africa. The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency was given the order to conduct the Swedish response. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the impact on project planning of the three factors: the nature of the crisis, political initiative and developing countries. In this case study the crisis was an epidemic, and the project was initiated by the Swedish Government and conducted in two developing countries. The results were intended to contribute to developed understanding and recommendations for future project managers in similar projects.

For some time, there has been a general thought that churches built in the Early Middle Ages in Scandinavia, around the 12th century, directly replaced cult buildings or cult sites from the Late Iron Age. There are archaeologists who have criticized this and were instead skeptical that churches at all were built on places where a pre-Christian cult building existed. Several examples from Scandinavia contradict this and show a continuity of place and cult from the Late Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages. The aim of this thesis is through a spatial analysis, study Late Iron Age archaeological sites in the landscape around thirteen churches located around lake T?kern in the western part of ?sterg?tland, to see if there is a place and cult continuity from the Late Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages at the selected locations.

Lantmäteriet använder idag ett verktyg för fastighetsvärdering, detta verktyg består av ett system med spridd arkitektur för att lagra fastighetsdata och geografisk information. Studien syftar till att undersöka vad det finns för alternativa tekniker och lösningar för att integrera spatialdata och fastighetsdata i samma databas. För att finna svar på detta analyseras litteratur, svar från enkäter som besvarats av slutanvändare samt resultat från djupintervjuer av systemexpter. Resultatet visar att tekniker som t.ex. ArcSDE och Oracle Spatial kan lösa det angivna problemet.

The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the geographical distribution of everyday criminality in the town of Borlänge during the year 2002 and to analyze which measures to be taken in the physical social planning to decrease this everyday criminality there. The term everyday criminality is here to be understood as those categories of crime that appear most frequently in the records of reports to the police every year. Here two kinds of crime have been in focus, thefts from cars and office burglary.In fulfilling this aim two main questions have been answered. The first one is how the everyday criminality was distributed geographically in the town of Borlänge during the year 2002. The second one is which measures to be taken in the physical social planning to decrease this everyday criminality in the town of Borlänge.In order to answer the first question a spatial autocorrelation analysis, Local Moran LISA has been used.

In Sweden, the main responsibility for urban planning lies with the municipalities. The county administrative boards are responsible for clarifying the governmental interests for the municipalities. The main purpose of this essay was to study documents with descriptions of national heritage areas in order to examine whether certain problems within these documents are still present in the most recent ones. This was done by comparing old documents with new ones. The problem with these kinds of documents has been the lack of clarification of cultural values in national heritage areas.

Detta examensarbete belyser trygghetsdiskussionen inom den fysiska planeringen och ger förslag på förbättringar av den fysiska miljön på otrygga platser, med fokus på gång- och cykelstråk. Idag är trygghet och säkerhet en viktig faktor för trivsel, oavsett om man bor i staden eller på landsbygden. Själva rädslan för att bli utsatt för brott är i sig ett problem. För många människor begränsar rädslan påtagligt vardagens möjligheter att använda stadens miljöer. Rädslan för att drabbas av våld eller annan brottslighet gör att många människor håller sig borta från offentliga platser och allmänna kommunikationer, speciellt efter det har blivit mörkt. Rädslan är beroende av olika sociala relationer som finns mellan olika grupper i samhället. Den föreställda rädslan är bl.