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181	Urban Public Space Impact on Social Interaction AL Haj Ali, Suhaib January 2024 (has links) This master’s thesis explores the role of the urban lifestyle closely linked to the modern urban environment, but the digital era has brought significant changes. The online world has changed the meaning of physical urban space and led to a decline in the quality of life. To address this issue, this report uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on urban planning and sociology to verify a framework that illustrates how the primary determinant of urban space vitality has shifted from function and aesthetics to socio-spatial interaction. This interaction refers to social needs and people's engagement in a particular space. The report presents different spatial and social synergy aspects and proposes a qualitative paradigm based on this concept. Furthermore, the model is tested through an empirical study at Fristadstorget, a town center in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The guideline’s principal framework is expected to provide insights into the revitalization of urban public space and previous evaluations of the corresponding designs, providing a theoretical framework that will benefit planners and decision-makers in future projects. Urban space aesthetics Urban space revitalization Social behavior Social network Space use Spatial analysis Social innovation Urban space characteristics Social Behavior Human relations Urban planning Explanatory framework Preliminary verification Spatial social interaction Urban space Friends Social isolation Social Networks Social Identification Social sustainability COVID-19. Architecture Arkitektur Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
182	The Incompatibility of Freedom of the Will and Anthropological Physicalism Gonzalez, Ariel 01 May 2014 (has links) Many contemporary naturalistic philosophers have taken it for granted that a robust theory of free will, one which would afford us with an agency substantial enough to render us morally responsible for our actions, is itself not conceptually compatible with the philosophical theory of naturalism. I attempt to account for why it is that free will (in its most substantial form) cannot be plausibly located within a naturalistic understanding of the world. I consider the issues surrounding an acceptance of a robust theory of free will within a naturalistic framework. Timothy Oâ€™Connorâ€™s reconciliatory effort in maintaining both a scientifically naturalist understanding of the human person and a full-blooded theory of agent-causal libertarian free will is considered. I conclude that Timothy Oâ€™Connorâ€™s reconciliatory model cannot be maintained and I reference several conceptual difficulties surrounding the reconciliation of agent-causal libertarian properties with physical properties that haunt the naturalistic libertarian. Philosophy

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Urban Public Space Impact on Social Interaction

The Incompatibility of Freedom of the Will and Anthropological Physicalism