The aim of this thesis is to serve as a comprehensive review of the literature on placemaking in higher education. To our knowledge, no comprehensive review of placemaking in higher education currently exists. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by answering two main questions: First, how is placemaking is implemented on college/university campuses and their surrounding communities? Second, what are the effects of these placemaking efforts? This literature review was conducted through a systemic search of three databases, in addition to references and general search engines. This review highlights the sparse, yet diverse, literature on this topic. Findings highlight how universities today strive to achieve cohesiveness within their campuses and in their surrounding communities.

This project has revolved around how to expand Stockholm in socially sustainable way. As is the case with many other cities in the world, inspired by modernist ideals, expansion during the 1900: s have shaped Stockholm into an archipelago of islands with mostly homogenous housing types that exist within an urban structure of centre and periphery. The Stockholm City Council is trying counter this situation by expanding the city centre into eight new regional cores by densifying a few chosen areas. This is done by conforming to old traditions of placing existing housing types and public spaces in a similar way as before. How do you go one step further in decentralizing Stockholm and breaking away from these traditions? The idea for this project is then to create an alternative typology that will be spread out homogeneously throughout the regional cores and that will grow organically as new needs emerge over time. The typology itself is simply a building scaffolding, a 6x6x7 steel grid, that will act as a tool for urban planning and host creation and expansion of new housing and public situations that together aim to constitute new parts of an alternative type of growing city centre.

My interest in architecture is based on discovery and stories. The citys rooms is for everyone. Places for the people to use. Rooms programmed for different purposes, do they really need to be activated to be relevant and exist? I have selected three places that I discovered and became attached to, for strong senses and architectural qualities. Using archival materials and architectural representational techniques, working between 2D to 3D, digital and analog, have I explored the sites to better understand them. I have also found collective descriptions of experiences, activities and events from the places that have made me gain a different kind of understanding. How to convey the history of a place through architectural mediums and how can I work with representation to show the specific events or activities that has attended at the site?Can the narratives create more interest in hidden public places in the city? I've investigated Sagorummet; The chair that disappeared, Tysta Mari gången; The activety that closed down and Glasbrukstäppan; The Swan that flew away

The intention is to develop a better understanding of what message in the form of atmosphere are people receiving from the light solutions of open public spaces and what characteristics contribute to build this perception. The method consists of two main stages. For the first  stage a methodology to critically observe lighting solutions is developed. The methodology is based on the combination of past studies from Anders Liljefors and Carolina Hiller. The second stage comprehends an analysis of the lighting solutions of three case studies in Stockholm province area. Using a questionnaire, general public is asked to observe the lighting in specific areas of each case study to do a further categorization into atmospheres. The premise is that by understanding the characteristics, that contribute to the perception of specific atmospheres, the lighting designer can conceive a project efficiently: by strengthening the relation between the project's intention and the final user's perception.

Our day-to-day lives consist of formal and informal settlements in the built environment. As humans, we gravitate towards successful informal settlements (public spaces) to conduct activities such as socializing and recharging. Previous research has highlighted the importance of distinct factors in determining the success of public spaces. Still, research has failed to develop the foundation that makes all public places prosper. Through examining successful and unsuccessful public places through case studies, this research analyses the success and importance of our emotional and physical safety in public spaces through the presence or absence of sound, light, nature, boundaries, and order.

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The purpose of this descriptive study was to establish a comprehensive and representative portrait of written policies with respect to displaying art in student unions in the United States. This study was designed to answer the following question: What policies are implemented in member colleges and universities of the Association of College Unions International with respect to the display of art in galleries and public spaces in student unions in the United States? One hundred institutions were selected for study by a stratified random sampling of the 1997 membership list of the Association of College Unions International. A total of 67 institutions responded including 16 research universities, 33 comprehensive state universities, 15 liberal arts colleges, and three community colleges. The result of the document analysis demonstrated that the majority of institutions in the sample, 60 percent, do not have a policy with respect to displaying art in the gallery or public spaces within the unions. Only 24 percent of the institutions in the study have such a written policy. The remaining institutions, 16 percent, have gallery mission statements or exhibition contracts. All policies received were classified according to the a priori evaluation criteria set in the study. Representative policy statements were formulated from the information received. / Master of Arts

Attractiveness can constitute an existential matter for some cities of Sweden. Such is the casefor Ljusdals Kommun in middle Sweden, where the goal of growing back to 20,000inhabitants for 2030 has become one of its main objectives towards social and economicsustainability. Attractiveness to address sustainability in Ljusdal turned then into the topic ofthe present thesis in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning. Public spaces were identified as ameans with potential towards this end. The aim was to investigate aesthetic principles that cancontribute to the attractiveness of the city and how they can be implemented in the planning ofits public spaces. To address the phenomenon, an overview of factors that have shaped urbanlandscapes in Sweden and possibilities to foster sustainability were studied. A dialoguebetween modernism as a characteristic style of urban developments of the Record Years andidealism as an alternative was done. From such a dialogue, a set of aesthetic principles wasextracted, which was then applied as a survey in the case study city. Finally, these results weretaken to interviews with public servants from the local government, artists and citizens toobtain their insights regarding the applicability of the set. A city-wide public space strategythat incorporates beauty from idealism was found as an attractiveness approach with potentialfor the municipality’s sustainability work.

With the case of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, this thesis intervenes into the contemporary discourse of "politics of space". It argues that the two theoretical perspectives provided by the contemporary spatial theorists---the structuralist approach and the phenomenological approach, have obvious inadequacy in understanding the phenomena of space in human society. For this regard, this thesis suggests to build up a political theory of space, which has its solid foundations in the spatial ideas in the classical political theories. The political perspective of space emphasizes the politics of space in the ideal-praxis processes. The perspective affirms the existence of the "autonomous sphere of political action", which is in contrary to the social theory, in which "the political" is subsumed under the macro social processes. The case of Tiananmen Square will demonstrate how space is related to human's collective action in pursuing the political and social utopia. / Lee Ka Kiu. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 232-263). / Adviser: Shu Yun Ma. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 1144. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 232-263). / Lee Ka Kiu.