Browsing Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, avdelningen för kulturgeografi (2013-) by Title
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Nature is just around the corner. Exploring experiences along the way of everyday walks
(2021-06-23)With a growing interest in the potential sustainability and health benefits of walking and human-nature relations in urban areas, researchers have pointed out a need to consider the everyday settings people move around ... -
Planning from visions: An investigation of the future of Gamlestaden
(2018-08-09)This study concerns the vision regarding construction in Gamlestaden. During the last century the urban district Gamlestaden in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been regarded as a node for the industry that came to define the city. ... -
Planning neighbourhoods for local living. New Urbanism ideas in practice
(2023-11-20)This thesis explores the effect of New Urbanist planning theory on facilitating sustainable local living behaviours in inner city neighbourhoods. Drawing on the empirical evidence of two New Urbanist neighbourhoods in ... -
Space-Time Autonomy by Proximity - A Qualitative Study of Girls´ Accessibility by Proximity in Gothenburg
(2021-11-03)The urban city is a melting pot of different people, groups of people, experiences, desires, and strivings organized within a shared space and connected through a variety of networks. In this shared urban space, it is ... -
Swedish Trade Unions’ Alliances - Geographical strategies and motivations
(2017-08-17)Workers’ agency, and their struggles to potentially increase their agency, has been and still is intriguing labour geographers. The relevance and potential of the role of the trade union for workers’ power is an interesting ... -
Teleworking and the Countryside. An explorative thesis regarding telework as an enabler for residential relocations and life in the countryside
(2023-08-04)The research on teleworking, and its spatial implications, is well explored. However, anticipations of a rising diffusion of teleworking never really got actualised, until a global pandemic emerged, and redrew the map of ... -
"They call us corona boys". A qualitative study of multilocal lifeworlds and social implications of multilocality during the Covid-19-pandemic in the area of Åre, Sweden
(2023-03-17)In accordance with contemporary scholars, the identified increase of urban-rural mobility during the pandemic testifies that multilocality, in terms of living an everyday life in more than one place, is gaining momentum ... -
TIME FOR SHIFT CHANGE IN THE FABRIC OF EXISTENCE Exploring the role of darkness and artificial light for humans and biodiversity
(2021-06-23)Den här uppsatsen tar avstamp i förlusten av biologisk mångfald, och då specifik förlusten av biologisk mångfald på grund av överflödigt artificiellt ljus under dygnets mörka timmar, även kallat ljusföroreningar. Den ... -
Västlänken - Infrastruktursatsning i envägskommunikation eller dialog?
(2018-08-09)This study is about the participatory planning that took place regarding the planning of Västlänken. In the 1980s preliminary studies begun concerning the infrastructure project, which has gained momentum today. Västlänken, ... -
The voluntary carless and their leisure mobility
(2022-08-17)In the strive to decrease car dependence, novel ways of thinking about mobility is needed. In this regard, much can be learned from those who voluntarily have refrained from car ownership. However, few studies have focused ... -
Where is ‘elsewhere’ in biodiversity offsetting? A political-geographical exploration of values and localizations of offset measures in two development projects of Port of Gothenburg, Sweden
(2020-08-20)Ekologisk kompensation är en relativt ny åtgärd vilket syftar till att minska förlusten av ekologiska värden i samband med stads- och infrastrukturutvecklingsprojekt. Tidigare forskning om ekologisk kompensation har främst ... -
Where life happens. Proximity, everyday life strategies, and gender in the dense city
(2021-12-07)This thesis is about the everyday life in the dense city, and gendered aspects of the everyday. Drawing on the fact that many cities densify in order to increase sustainability, and that gender differences in terms of ...