International retirement migration (IRM) and its related fields of expatriate residency (expats), residential tourism, long-term tourism and international second homes are rapidly growing and changing. From its early modern beginnings when Northern Europeans moved to Spanish beaches in the 1950’s, geographic distribution has now expanded to include Mexico and the emerging IRM markets of Central and South America as well as Southeast Asia. A combination of many factors will contribute to the growth of IRM in the future with retiring baby boomers being the primary reason. Though the vast majority are of persons older, IRM is a misnomer for this topic as non-retired younger generations are also moving to these destinations, as they are increasingly able to work from virtually anywhere, due to the Internet economy and other trends associated with ever-increasing globalization. IRM in Udon Thani, Thailand consists almost exclusively of retired Western men marrying local women who are almost always much younger. Almost all the men first spend time in the sex tourism haven of Pattaya, Thailand before moving to the interior Northeastern city of Udon Thani at or near where their wives are from. Thus, there are many linkages and commonalities between the expatriate residents in Pattaya and Udon Thani. Without proper planning, Udon Thani will continue to adopt many of the undesirable attributes of Pattaya such as beer bars and sex tourism which are already present and growing rapidly. This practicum focuses on IRM and expats in the city of Udon Thani, Thailand and examines impacts on the host community. The practicum also tries to develop general models of IRM in different communities in developing nations and recommend planning guidelines to help deal with this phenomenon. The research methods employed included: a review of the literature, key informant interviews, informal exploratory interviews with locals and the IRM population as well as observations. Outside of planning research conducted in Spain, no IRM or expatriate research has examined planning issues in detail. This practicum attempts to establish or contribute to a body of work to aide in future work on this topic. The primary planning issues in Udon Thani were found to be: sprawling residential growth, economic development, gender issues and integration of IRM and expat populations into the local communities. IRM shares many commonalities in all its global locations. However, planning for IRM in Udon Thani and possibly other Southeast Asian communities is unique due to the homogenous makeup of male retirees who bring with them a host of Western cultural values and problems related to bars and sex tourism. It has been found that planning for IRM shares commonalities with planning for amenity migration in North American mountain communities. There are many types of IRM communities. For example, beach communities may have a population that is more seasonal and has less attachment to host communities, while interior cities such as San Miguel and Lake Chapala, Mexico as well as Udon Thani may have more permanent year-round populations. Planning issues surrounding care-giving and marriage are also examined as medical care will be a future catalyst for many of these communities.

International retirement migration (IRM) and its related fields of expatriate residency (expats), residential tourism, long-term tourism and international second homes are rapidly growing and changing. From its early modern beginnings when Northern Europeans moved to Spanish beaches in the 1950’s, geographic distribution has now expanded to include Mexico and the emerging IRM markets of Central and South America as well as Southeast Asia. A combination of many factors will contribute to the growth of IRM in the future with retiring baby boomers being the primary reason. Though the vast majority are of persons older, IRM is a misnomer for this topic as non-retired younger generations are also moving to these destinations, as they are increasingly able to work from virtually anywhere, due to the Internet economy and other trends associated with ever-increasing globalization. IRM in Udon Thani, Thailand consists almost exclusively of retired Western men marrying local women who are almost always much younger. Almost all the men first spend time in the sex tourism haven of Pattaya, Thailand before moving to the interior Northeastern city of Udon Thani at or near where their wives are from. Thus, there are many linkages and commonalities between the expatriate residents in Pattaya and Udon Thani. Without proper planning, Udon Thani will continue to adopt many of the undesirable attributes of Pattaya such as beer bars and sex tourism which are already present and growing rapidly. This practicum focuses on IRM and expats in the city of Udon Thani, Thailand and examines impacts on the host community. The practicum also tries to develop general models of IRM in different communities in developing nations and recommend planning guidelines to help deal with this phenomenon. The research methods employed included: a review of the literature, key informant interviews, informal exploratory interviews with locals and the IRM population as well as observations. Outside of planning research conducted in Spain, no IRM or expatriate research has examined planning issues in detail. This practicum attempts to establish or contribute to a body of work to aide in future work on this topic. The primary planning issues in Udon Thani were found to be: sprawling residential growth, economic development, gender issues and integration of IRM and expat populations into the local communities. IRM shares many commonalities in all its global locations. However, planning for IRM in Udon Thani and possibly other Southeast Asian communities is unique due to the homogenous makeup of male retirees who bring with them a host of Western cultural values and problems related to bars and sex tourism. It has been found that planning for IRM shares commonalities with planning for amenity migration in North American mountain communities. There are many types of IRM communities. For example, beach communities may have a population that is more seasonal and has less attachment to host communities, while interior cities such as San Miguel and Lake Chapala, Mexico as well as Udon Thani may have more permanent year-round populations. Planning issues surrounding care-giving and marriage are also examined as medical care will be a future catalyst for many of these communities.

The thesis discusses the importance of leisure as a part of an individual's everyday life for the formation of social relationships and ties influencing whole society. In fact, leisure is understood as a sample of practices and activities with underlying social and cultural factors. These practices are allocated in time and space, having an impact on space. The study is devoted to the use of leisure, its position and importance in the general time framework of a day. There is also a discussion of the trends and shifts in society associated with broader cultural and institutional processes (transformation of the labour market, globalisation, individualisation, differentiation, post-communist transformation, and the gender question). In addition, the study empirically examines the importance and potential of leisure activities for the formation of place attachment and associated processes of the creation of social capital, contact networks and knowledge transfer. Through these effects, leisure can contribute to the endogenous development of distinct types of area. In fact, attention is focused on two ways of leisure time activities with a considerable local tie and potential for the creation of social capital. These are the second home tourism and activities performed within voluntary associations....

Skilled and educated workers are somewhat of a rarity for many rural and peripheral communities. The global migration trend where younger residents of these communities tend to leave for more populated areas leaves the communities with an older population that struggles to find new employees to replace those who retire. However, this does not mean that rural and peripheral communities are unattractive areas. Second-home owners verifies how these areas are attractive for certain individuals for various periods. More importantly, previous research show how second-home owners are often highly educated within their fields, they invest time in their host community, and they can potentially become permanent members of the society. Thus, this study aims to explore second-home owners potential of acting as a recruitment resource for the local labour market of the host community. This is done by using Vilhelmina municipality in Västerbotten county, Sweden, as an example. By using quantitative methods, the findings of this study suggest that the occupational background of second-home owners causes them to be a potential recruitment resource for the local labour market. However, the findings for the study suggest that the willingness to contribute to the local labour market is a mixed bag. Nevertheless, this study contributes to the current understandings of labour recruitment in rural and peripheral areas by confirming the possibility for extension of second-home owners as a resource. / Part of a research project at the Department of Geography at Umeå University called: Is the temporary population a resource?

Second homes are a widespread part of the Swedish landscape and in many municipalities along the coastline the population can vary seasonally due to that. This cause planning issues for the municipalities, in how they plan their infrastructure, service etc. Studies has also shown that there are two sides in the discussion about second homes, some areas want to attract second home owners because they believe that this group help the municipality to grow while others try to attract permanent residents and restrict new development of second homes. The subject has been of discussion for a long time from many angels, for instance implementation of regulations to prevent second homes.  The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what planning strategies municipalities apply in areas that change so heavily in population depending on season. The method for this thesis is based on a mixture between comparative analysis and content analysis of six comprehensive plans and two policy documents from six municipalities with archipelagos. Furthermore, from the content analysis of the different documents, three themes were produced from the strategies which then were compared in comparative analysis where similarities and differences were highlighted. The themes were population and housing, infrastructure and transport communication, service, business sector and labor. The analysis was subsequently put into context with related academic research such as urbanization theories, rural gentrification, planning theories among others. This ended with a discussion and conclusion. Conclusively the analysis show that municipalities no longer plan for second homes but for permanent residents, the municipalities believed that it is reactionary to plan for second home owners and not primary for permanent residents. / Fritidsboende är en utbredd del av det svenska landskapet och i många kommuner längs kusten kan befolkningen variera säsongsmässigt på grund av det. Detta skapar viss planeringsproblematik för kommunerna i hur de planerar sin infrastruktur, service etc. Studier har också visat att det finns två sidor i diskussionen om fritidsbostäder, vissa områden vill locka fritidsboende eftersom de anser att denna grupp hjälper kommunen att utvecklas medan andra försöker locka permanenta invånare och begränsa ny utveckling av fritidsbostäder. Ämnet har diskuterats länge och från många vinklar, exempelvis implementering av regelverk för att förhindra fritidsbostäder. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att undersöka vilka planeringstrategier kommuner tillämpar i sådana områden som skiftar så kraftigt i befolkningen säsongsvis. Metoden i denna studie har bestått av en blandning mellan komparativ analys och innehållsanalys på sex översiktsplaner och två styrdokument gällande kust och skärgården från sex kust- och skärgårdskommuner Från innehållsanalysen av de olika dokumenten, producerades tre teman från de strategier som sedan jämfördes i den komparativa analysen, där likheter och skillnader lyfts fram. Teman var befolkning och bostäder, infrastruktur och kommunikation, service, näringsliv och arbetsmarknad. Analysen relaterades sedan till forskningsöversikten och den teoretiska utgångspunkten Detta avslutades med en diskussion och slutsats. Sammanfattningsvis visar analysen att kommunerna inte längre planerar för fritidsboende utan för fastboende, kommunerna menade att det är förlegat att planera för främst fritidsboende och inte fastboende.

Given a sloping wooded site in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the problem of the thesis project was to design a retreat that would fit the environment and the people that would inhabit it. It was a searching for the interdependence between the landscape and the building. Equally important was a search for a structure that would give architectural integrity to the house. The design process included a time of discovery and clarification of values and priorities. Two additional steps during the schematic design were processes architect Charles Moore referred to as"mapping" and"collecting''. These processes help to establish relationships between the inhabitants and things they recognize. Structural elements of post and beam construction gave a sense of order in the design layout and helped to organize the spaces within the form of the house. A system of equidistant columns formed by four wood posts also provided the physical linkage between the building and the site. Native field stone was used for the large piers that supported the columns as well as for the perimeter walls of the living room structure. The inner landscape of the house, the pathways, the rooms and the machines within them, developed from the basic idea that the building would grow from a central axis or “spine” that originated from the outside at the street's edge, extended across the site,and moved into the building to become the main artery of the structure as well as the connection between outside and inside. / Master of Architecture

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:31:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francieli Mezzomo Franca.pdf: 9113266 bytes, checksum: 69739900e6b245fc96e4c04694f8f406 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-24 / In the path of Brazilian energy production, the dams have a leading role in the national development, but also in sociospatial transformations. This study examines the Salto Caxias Hydroelectric Power Plant, its economic and social role in the formation of territories in the urban community that had affected areas. The paper presents an overview of the Brazilian energy production and the sociospatial transformations resulting from the construction of dams, as well as a history of the Brazilian energy sector under the bias of the environmental issue. It was held a conceptual review of some geographic categories used constantly by the literature by studying tourism, such as landscape, place, space and territory, beyond the concept of leisure. Specify the tourism and recreation in the reservoirs and the production and consumption of space by their activities. The methodology used was based on the survey of literature on the topic and empirical research, through questionnaires, interviews and observations in situ. The results obtained allowed to understand the importance that the construction of the Salto Caxias dam had in the new sociospatial dynamics that originated in the urban communities affected. The tank formation as well as its use and use of its banks allowed the leisure and tourism practice in the region. The research revealed the tourism contribution of second homes for the production of space and the (re)creation of the territory. / Na trajetória da produção energética brasileira, as hidrelétricas têm papel preponderante no desenvolvimento nacional, como também, nas transformações socioespaciais. O presente estudo analisa a Usina Hidrelétrica de Salto Caxias, seu papel econômico e social na formação de territórios nos municípios que tiveram áreas atingidas. O trabalho apresenta uma contextualização da produção energética brasileira e as transformações socioespaciais decorrentes da construção de hidrelétricas, bem como, um histórico do setor energético brasileiro sob o viés da questão ambiental. Realiza-se uma revisão conceitual sobre algumas categorias geográficas utilizadas constantemente pela literatura ao se estudar o turismo, como paisagem, lugar, espaço e território, além do conceito de lazer. Especifica-se o turismo e o lazer nos reservatórios e a produção e o consumo do espaço por suas atividades. A metodologia utilizada baseou-se no levantamento de bibliografia sobre a temática e na pesquisa empírica, através da aplicação de questionários, de entrevistas e de observações in loco. Os resultados alcançados permitiram compreender a importância que a construção da UHE de Salto Caxias teve nas novas dinâmicas socioespaciais que se originaram nos municípios atingidos. A formação do reservatório bem como o seu uso e o uso de suas margens permitiram a prática de lazer e turismo na região. A pesquisa revelou a contribuição do turismo de segundas residências para a produção do espaço e a (re)criação do território.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T14:42:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francieli Mezzomo Franca.pdf: 9113266 bytes, checksum: 69739900e6b245fc96e4c04694f8f406 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-24 / In the path of Brazilian energy production, the dams have a leading role in the national development, but also in sociospatial transformations. This study examines the Salto Caxias Hydroelectric Power Plant, its economic and social role in the formation of territories in the urban community that had affected areas. The paper presents an overview of the Brazilian energy production and the sociospatial transformations resulting from the construction of dams, as well as a history of the Brazilian energy sector under the bias of the environmental issue. It was held a conceptual review of some geographic categories used constantly by the literature by studying tourism, such as landscape, place, space and territory, beyond the concept of leisure. Specify the tourism and recreation in the reservoirs and the production and consumption of space by their activities. The methodology used was based on the survey of literature on the topic and empirical research, through questionnaires, interviews and observations in situ. The results obtained allowed to understand the importance that the construction of the Salto Caxias dam had in the new sociospatial dynamics that originated in the urban communities affected. The tank formation as well as its use and use of its banks allowed the leisure and tourism practice in the region. The research revealed the tourism contribution of second homes for the production of space and the (re)creation of the territory. / Na trajetória da produção energética brasileira, as hidrelétricas têm papel preponderante no desenvolvimento nacional, como também, nas transformações socioespaciais. O presente estudo analisa a Usina Hidrelétrica de Salto Caxias, seu papel econômico e social na formação de territórios nos municípios que tiveram áreas atingidas. O trabalho apresenta uma contextualização da produção energética brasileira e as transformações socioespaciais decorrentes da construção de hidrelétricas, bem como, um histórico do setor energético brasileiro sob o viés da questão ambiental. Realiza-se uma revisão conceitual sobre algumas categorias geográficas utilizadas constantemente pela literatura ao se estudar o turismo, como paisagem, lugar, espaço e território, além do conceito de lazer. Especifica-se o turismo e o lazer nos reservatórios e a produção e o consumo do espaço por suas atividades. A metodologia utilizada baseou-se no levantamento de bibliografia sobre a temática e na pesquisa empírica, através da aplicação de questionários, de entrevistas e de observações in loco. Os resultados alcançados permitiram compreender a importância que a construção da UHE de Salto Caxias teve nas novas dinâmicas socioespaciais que se originaram nos municípios atingidos. A formação do reservatório bem como o seu uso e o uso de suas margens permitiram a prática de lazer e turismo na região. A pesquisa revelou a contribuição do turismo de segundas residências para a produção do espaço e a (re)criação do território.