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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Uncovering the urban unknown: Mapping methods in popular settlements in Nairobi
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;68, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...