Urbanisme & landskapsarkitektur // Urbanism & Landscape architecture
Recent Submissions
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Deep landscape
(CON-TEXT;127, Doctoral thesis, 2024-05)We know very little about what is under our feet. We are used to the sight of manhole covers punctuating the streets around us, and we know that they provide access to the subterranean water system. But where does that ... -
A Landscape Approach. Reading a Geographic Context Through Multiple Dimensions: The Case of the Hexi Corridor Region in China’s Northwestern Gansu Province
(CON-TEXT;125, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Long-term processes of socio-environmental transformation have severely degraded entire world regions, leading to pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. In this planetary context, the thesis develops a ... -
Urban futures in the north : a collective imagination of an arctic borderland
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;120, Doctoral thesis, 2022)This dissertation is a cultural landscape mapping project, merging ethnography with urban planning and design to provide robust and relevant contextual data to inform those interested in a socially mediated urban future ... -
Tempo-materialities : encounters with time along Arctic island coasts
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;118, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Time is at the heart of this doctoral research which engages with the Arctic island coasts of Jan Mayen, Bjørnøya and Hopen. As a means to work with different dimensions and scales of time along these coasts, I have chosen ... -
Urban Habitat Transformation and the African Middle Class The Case of Kileleshwa, Nairobi, Kenya
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;113, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The subject of urban transformation in cities generally and in those of the global south in particular is a significant matter that requires to be understood and where possible, guide policy. The forecasting of rapid growth ... -
Hello, Stranger? Urban Public Space between Interaction and Attraction
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;110, Doctoral thesis, 2021)A much-celebrated feature of urbanity, is peaceful face-to-face interaction among diverse strangers in public spaces. Such interaction has major civilizing effects, leading urban scholars argue. The rise in privately owned ... -
Trans-alpine landscapes : Transecting a Chinese high mountain in transition
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;108, Doctoral thesis, 2021)The dissertation Trans-alpine Landscapes explores the changing landscapes of a high mountain in China affected by ongoing urbanization. Mount Gongga, the highest mountain of the Hengduan mountainous regions in Southwest ... -
The perforated landscape : a study on contested prospects in Sápmi
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;106, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Mineral prospecting perforate landscapes both physically and discursively. Bringing landscape theory in conversation with critical cartography this monograph emphasis the landscape dimension in interrelated research fields ... -
Coffee and the city : towards a soft urbanity
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;45, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This dissertation is about coffee bars. In it I ask how and why they have emerged in the urban sphere, how they function and how they may be interpreted as indicators of structural changes on a societal level. To put it ... -
Public art : urban learning
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;90, Doctoral thesis, 2017)This thesis is about the role of public art in the urban redevelopment of Bjørvika on the seaside of Oslo. The cultural-led approach to the area transformation has occasioned a public art programme embedded in the redevelopment ... -
Urban environments of the entrepreneurial city : from Aker Brygge to Tjuvholmen
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;84, Doctoral thesis, 2017)The focus of this thesis is the regeneration of industrial harbor and brownfield areas to properties primed for urban development along the urban waterfront of Oslo, Norway. The project revolves around an empirical study ... -
Our way or the highway? : a study of the reframing of transformed road transportation infrastructure in the Nairobi Metropolitan Region.
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;87, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2017)The Global South is experiencing unprecedented road infrastructure transformations accompanied by foreseen and unforeseen effects on everyday life. What are the characteristics of these transformations and what are their ... -
Immaterial landscapes : formulating the intangible in northern landscapes
(CON-TEXT Phd thesis;86, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2017)What is the space-shaping potential of immaterial entities? This thesis aspires to foreground the immaterial as a valuable domain of investigation and of design experimentation for the practice of landscape architecture. ... -
The Architecture of the Urban Project
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 80, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2016-10-04)“The Architecture of the Urban Project” is about large-scale architecture in Norway. Projects that potentially fall into this category are those that blur the distinction between the city and the building, more specifically ... -
Groruddalen; Oslos vakreste verkebyll? : problemrepresentasjoner og stedsforståelser i Groruddalssatsingen
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 70, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2014)Avhandlingen handler om stedsforståelsens betydning for utformingen av en områdepolitikk, og områdepolitikkens betydning for stedsforståelsen. Caset er Groruddalssatsningen, en områdebasert innsats i det som regnes som et ... -
Uncovering the urban unknown: Mapping methods in popular settlements in Nairobi
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Bitvis byutvikling : møte mellom privat eiendomsutvikling og offentlig byplanlegging
(CON-TEXT / Thesis;17, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed; Book, 2005)Denne avhandlingen har en målsetting om å være relevant for den praksis som skjer i møtet mellom den offentlige byplanleggingen og den private eiendomsutviklingen. Det betyr at jeg ønskes at avhandlingnen kan leses av ...