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  1. 6. Satire in Service of Postcolonialism : An Analysis of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Torbjörn Reivant Olausson; [2018]
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  3. 7. Restructuring Suburbia : Introducing Social Space in a Spatially Disperse Neighbourhood

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Författare :Love Brostedt; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Architecture; urban morphology; density; densification; accessibility; legibility; spatial configuration; territorial boundaries; public-private interface; sprawl; suburbia; suburban housing estate; Miljonprogrammet; space for activities; spatial appropriation; social sustainability;

    Sammanfattning : Density is more about an experienced nearness to functions and activities than buildingsbeing physically close to each other. Density is interaction, and the intensity of itdepends on accessibility to the functions and activities of the built environment. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Wrong Side of the Ridge: Charting the Urban Fabric of the Countryside

    Master-uppsats, Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Oscar Damerham; [2017]
    Nyckelord :countryside; flâneur; Planetary Urbanisation; extended urbanisation; methodological cityism; phenomenology; rural-futurism; villages;

    Sammanfattning : Echoing through the lecture theatres, conference halls and pages of the contemporary Urban Studies discourse is the oft-repeated refrain that today over half the world?s population live in urban areas, and that by 2050 this proportion is expected to be upwards of 70%. The place of the leftover 50% of people inhabiting a vast and seemingly forgotten 98% of the planet?s rural territory is externalised, apparently lying outside the purview of marching urbanisation. LÄS MER

  5. 9. THE ACTOR OF SUBURBIA: IDENTITY AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION IN THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Maria Hallhagen; [2016-02-03]
    Nyckelord :postcolonialism; performativity; authenticity; Orientalism;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract: This essay studies the significance of acting and performing in relation to selftransformation and the search for an identity in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. It uses Judith Butler’s discussions on moral responsibility and gender performances, in order to investigate how the characters negotiate their identities and draws on Edward Said’s discussion on Orientalism to establish how the novel uses stereotypes as a way of undermining stereotyping and Orientalist learning. LÄS MER

  7. 10. King City

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, KTH/Arkitektur

    Författare :Alexander Stålhandske; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Kungens Kurva; Shopping; Urban Design; Kungens Kurva; Handel; Stadsbyggnad;

    Sammanfattning : King City is a new citycenter in the expanding Kungens Kurva area in the southern part of Stockholm that combines shopping, service, dwellings and workplaces into a coherent urban environment. The project deals with the expanding city of Stockholm, where areas that before where seen as external, now form the basis of a polycentric city where the divide between innercity and suburbia is disolving. LÄS MER