The absolute polarization of contextual and tabula rasa urban models has long been advanced, even blatantly promoted, within the discipline. Taken for granted as foils, the exclusive championing and application of context or tabula rasa has only served to undermine the agency of the contemporary city. Producing an ineffectual and one-dimensional duality, cities have been reduced to futilely choose between the old and the new. A city of contradictory extremes, the clash between these concepts is embodied in the urbanism of Shanghai. With the impetus of China’s “Economic Miracle,” a previously unheard of scale and speed of urbanization has been achieved throughout the country with the creation of “instant cities.” Embraced as testing grounds for contemporary urbanism, the characteristics and conditions of the instant cities have been enthusiastically and almost universally adopted, leading to a primacy of tabula rasa and vertical development. Partially transformed by this model of erasure, Shanghai’s urbanism is defined by confrontation as the urban models of the past and present collide. The duality manifest by this conflict compels an examination of the seemingly agonistic roles of context and erasure in the city. The ambition of this thesis is to eliminate such distinctions; the choice between contextual and tabula rasa approaches does not work. This false choice produces either a conservative preservationist tourist attraction or a generic and totalizing vertical city. The shallow tendencies of both approaches threaten the city as a multiple and collective space of possibility. By adopting a broader view of context and collapsing present dualities, this project seeks to create complexity and new confrontations through an urban morphology shaped by architecture. Moving beyond contextual preservation and tabula rasa, this thesis seeks to engage and create another reality using that juxtaposition to open new relationships within the city.

Psykoanalysen är ingen vetenskap eftersom den saknar kunskapsobjekt. Med syftet att finna detta objekt och därmed grunda en vetenskap togs avstamp i Freuds begrepp Det Omedvetna. Genom begreppsanalys av Freuds texter och med hjälp av matematisk mängdlära samt nedslag i filosofi och ontologi kunde en första beskrivning av objektet göras. Freuds begrepp visade sig då syfta på ett inlärt men bortträngt Omedvetet som i sin uppbyggnad ligger nära vårt medvetna tänkande. Det sökta objektet däremot, var ett medfött och inte bortträngt psykiskt system med en egen logik, symmetrisk logik, och sannolikt också vårt känslocentrum. Studier av neuropsykoanalys band sedan objektet till Limbiska systemet och det implicita minnet. Här bekräftades att systemet bär våra känslor. Ur författarens praktik hade samtidigt vuxit en idé om att vi föds med en uppsättning bilder av oss själva som är systematiskt ordnade i ett självbildssystem och av grandios natur. Till systemet kunde en livsåskådning knytas som primärt är en idealism. Självbildssystemet skyddades av en homeostatiskt fungerande sjävbildsbevarande drift. Denna drift framstod som vår viktigaste drift. Sexualdrift och självbevarelsedrift intog en sekundär roll. Det fanns sedan fog för att sammanföra det inte bortträngda Omedvetna och självbildssystemet till en enhet och betrakta kombinationen som psykoanalysens kunskapsobjekt. Resultatet hade inflytande på frågor som: den fria viljan, moral, determinism och kunskapssubjektets status. / Psychoanalysis is not a science since it does not have an object of knowledge. With the objective to find such an object and thereby establish a science Freud´s concept the Unconscious was taken as a point of departure with concept analysis of some of Freud´s texts and with help of mathematical set theory and the impact of philosophy and ontology an initial description of the object was made. What Freud had in mind with his concept was a system that was learned and then repressed, a repressed Unconscious, which in its structure is close to our conscious thinking. The requested object of knowledge of psychoanalysis was shown to be an inborn psychical system, which is not repressed, and with its own logic, symmetrical logic, and probably also our centre of feeling/emotion. Studies of neuro-psychoanalysis situated the object in the Limbic system and the implicit memory. This confirmed that the system carries our feelings and emotions. From the author´s practice had grown, at the same time, an idea that we are born with a set of images of ourselves that are systematically arranged in a self-image system of a grandiose nature. The system could be associated with a philosophy that primarily is an idealism. The self-image system was protected by a homeostatic subsystem which aim was conservation of the system. This subsystem took its power from a self-image protecting drive. This drive was found to be our most powerful drive. Sexual desire and self-preservation took a secondary role. It was substantiated that the unrepressed unconscious and the system of self-images shall be treated as one unit and that this combination is the sought for object of knowledge of psychoanalysis. The result had influence on the issues: free will, morality, determinism and the status of the subject of knowledge.

This project deals with the relationship between Stockholm and the water, investigating its history and searching for a definition of its future. As a city, Stockholm is defined by water; it creates physical distance in the city, but at the same time visually ties it together. Looking specifically at Söder Mälarstrand, an undefined waterfront with great potential, this project seeks to understand the current state of this site and propose a new use for it. How can this urban landscape be defined to accommodate a contemporary use of the waterfront? What should such a development look like architecturally? As a research method, this project looks beyond the physical extension of the site to the images of it constantly reproduced. Without romanticizing the past, the research searches for the character of the site to find a potential for its future use. The project proposes a new use of the waterfront. The quay is widened, and the new space that is created is anchored by the addition of three new volumes programmatically linked to the existing activity on the site, while also allowing new uses in the future. This approach aims to create a more defined public space, making the site permeable.

Submitted by Verena Bastos (verena@uefs.br) on 2015-10-02T12:27:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Augusto.pdf: 6330592 bytes, checksum: 7a24562999e9032ffc8a232b0d94049e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-02T12:27:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Augusto.pdf: 6330592 bytes, checksum: 7a24562999e9032ffc8a232b0d94049e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-26 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / The action of man over nature haphazardly and without adequate planning has led to imbalances in the various terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, it is necessary to formulate strategies to facilitate the balance between human activities and the strengths and weaknesses of environmental systems. One of the strategies used today is the analysis of the use and land cover across sub-basins, an innovation of the technique. Based on that this work has as main objective to analyze changes in land use and land cover in the municipality of Villa Nova, BA, through the use of geotechnology, for the years 1996, 2003 and 2011. The study area is located in the far north of the state of Bahia, Bahia and semi-arid shores of Lake Sobradinho, between the geographical coordinates 41?53' W and 40?39' W and 8?42' S and 09?47' S. The multitemporal analysis for use and land cover featured images of LANDSAT 5 TM, belonging to the municipality for the years 1996, 2003 and 2011, and to reach the purpose were followed methodological procedures that guided this research, structured in four steps: the first step were acquired vector data (GIS database from various sources) and raster data (Landsat and ASTER MDT). The second stage consisted in pre-processing of LANDSAT scenes where applied fixes atmospheric tilt solar and geometric mosaic and clip area. The third step was the digital image processing by performing statistical analysis, preparation of colored compositions, contrast enhancement, image classification and filtering. The fourth step was the post-processing is performed fieldwork for data collection with the help of GPS, these data provided support the calculation of Kappa indices, PABAK and errors of commission and omission, validating the maps with the realization of cross-tabulation between use and land cover, the years of study, and sub-basins extracted from the digital terrain model. The results from this study showed there were changes over time, such as farming areas which decreased missing for other uses. The techniques used allowed the identification of dynamic classes use and land cover in the study region. / A a??o do homem sobre a natureza de forma desorganizada e sem um planejamento adequado vem provocando desequil?brios nos diversos ecossistemas terrestres. Dessa forma, ? necess?rio formular estrat?gias que possibilitem o equil?brio entre a a??o antr?pica e as potencialidades e fragilidades dos sistemas ambientais. Umas das estrat?gias mais utilizadas atualmente ? a an?lise do uso e cobertura das terras atrav?s de sub-bacias hidrogr?ficas, uma inova??o da t?cnica de an?lise. Com base nisso este trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar as mudan?as no uso e cobertura das terras no munic?pio de Casa Nova, BA, por meio do uso das geotecnologias, no per?odo de 1996, 2003 e 2011. A ?rea de estudo localiza-se no extremo Norte do estado da Bahia, semi?rido baiano e ?s margens do Lago de Sobradinho, entre as coordenadas geogr?ficas 41?53? W e 40?39? W e 8?42? S e 09?47? S. A an?lise multitemporal para o uso e cobertura das terras contou com imagens do sat?lite LANDSAT 5 TM, pertencente ao munic?pio, dos anos de 1996, 2003 e 2011, e para chegar ao objetivo proposto foram seguidos procedimentos metodol?gicos que nortearam essa pesquisa, estruturados em quatro etapas: na primeira etapa foram adquiridos os dados vetoriais (base de dados em SIG de v?rias fontes) e dados raster (LANDSAT e do MDT ASTER). A segunda etapa constituiu no pr?-processamento das cenas do LANDSAT, onde se aplicou corre??es atmosf?rica, inclina??o solar e geom?trica, mosaico e recorte da ?rea. A terceira etapa foi o processamento digital de imagem realizando an?lise estat?stica, elabora??o das composi??es coloridas, realce de contraste, classifica??o da imagem e filtragem. A quarta etapa foi o p?sprocessamento, executou-se o trabalho de campo para coleta de dados com o aux?lio do GPS, estes dados subsidiaram o c?lculo dos ?ndices de Kappa, PABAK e dos erros de Comiss?o e Omiss?o, validando os mapas, com a realiza??o da tabula??o cruzada entre o uso e cobertura das terras, dos anos de estudo, e as sub-bacias extra?das do modelo digital do terreno. Os resultados oriundos dessa pesquisa mostraram houve modifica??es ao longo do tempo, como por exemplo, a agropecu?ria que decresceu perdendo ?reas para outros usos. As t?cnicas usadas possibilitaram a identifica??o da din?mica das classes de uso e cobertura das terras na regi?o de estudo.

The purpose of this thesis was to design and evaluate The ContexTable, a context-aware system built into a kitchen table. After establishing the current status of the field of context-aware systems and the hurdles and problems being faced, a functioning prototype system was designed and built. The prototype makes it possible to explore established, untested theory and novel solutions to problems faced in the field.