Sökning: "Placelessness"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade ordet Placelessness.

  1. 1. "The café-chain appears as a corpse-maggot hatching when culture dies" : Agency and meaning in an Espresso House coffee-shop

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Författare :My Berglund Wiklund; [2023]
    Nyckelord :placelessness; private owned public space; sense of place; coffee shop; case study;

    Sammanfattning : This paper explores the terms placelessness (Relph 1976) and Private Owned Public Space (Arefi 1999; Németh, 2009) through a case study of one coffee-shop belonging to the chain Espresso House. This Espresso House shop is made to be conform and homogenous which according to the theory of placelessness makes it devoid of meaning. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Place, Placelessness, and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

    Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Författare :Sirine Karray; Svenja Voß; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sustainable entrepreneurship; Sustainable entrepreneur; Place Context; Placelessness; Impact; Embeddedness;

    Sammanfattning : Like every human, the sustainable entrepreneur is impacted by all the places they have inhabited, but even more so since their triple-bottom-line approach leads to a manifestation of their efforts in places. Opposing this concept of place, scholars describe the concept of placelessness as a manifestation of a lack of meaning or lack of physical location. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The proliferation of coworking spaces in Vietnam’s transitional urban economy – moving towards adaptation or resistance?

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Författare :Caroline Müller-Runte; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Vietnam; Coworking Spaces; Urban Economy; Transitional Vacuum; Sense of Place; Placelessness; Adaptation; Resistance; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Situated in Vietnam’s transitional vacuum in its urban cores Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, this study is rooted in the aim to understand the emerging variants of coworking spaces currently proliferating across the country. This aim is realized by conducting a multiple case study and semi-structured interviews with nine founders, community managers and users of coworking spaces from heterogeneous backgrounds. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Longing for a Home : Young people’s struggles in Stockholm’s second-hand housing market

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Författare :Herman Sjörén; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Placelessness; housing precarity; home; second-hand housing; phenomenology;

    Sammanfattning : Many young people in the Stockholm metropolitan area struggle with accessing the formal housing market and are therefore relying on short-term, second-hand contracts. By drawing on ten semi-structured interviews this essay explores the second-hand tenant’s ability to feel a sense of belonging towards their home. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Defining Urban Terroir : The Placemaking Qualities of a City

    Master-uppsats, KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Författare :Zaid Al-karkhi; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Terroir; placemaking; authenticity; urban design; cultural identity; exclusion; interculturalism;

    Sammanfattning : Throughout the history of Architecture and Urbanism, many efforts were made and continue being done in order to learn how to successfully design good built environments for human beings. This goal has not only expanded to several other fields such as Geography, Sociology, and Environmental Psychology but also received new and invaluable contributions from several other unexpected fields. LÄS MER