Master thesis published

I have recently get to know a wonderful website named issuu. Through this website you can publish and share all of your works including papers, report, theses ... . It is very user friendly and helps you promote your work.

I uploaded my master thesis and portfolio and here is the link:

http://issuu.com/maryam.sepehr

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My reflections on the "RiverCity International Workshop" from the urban design perspective (part 2)

Happold (England)

Composition of the team:

-          Urban planning and design, landscape design, architecture

-          Economic

-          Technical design

Approach:

Setting objectives -> Understanding parameters -> Developing and evaluating options

The focus is on economy and business plan and the physical planning strategies are based on that.

Key Ideas:

-          Social inclusion through creating the new Gothenburg economy (ex. Chinese restaurant!)

My reflections on the "RiverCity International Workshop" from the urban design perspective (part 1)

Introduction

RiverCity International workshop organized by Gothenburg municipality and Centrala Älvstaden project in June 2011. 10 groups of 8-9 experts from all over the world were chosen to participate in five-day-long workshop about the development of central riverside areas in Gothenburg. The main goal of the workshop has been to gather concepts and ideas from internationally recognized professionals in order to formulate vision and strategy for transforming Gothenburg into a “green, inclusive and dynamic” city. 

My experience during "RiverCity International Workshop", Gothenburg June 7-11, 2011

I was one of the local hosts during the RiverCity International Workshop. We were a group of 11 university student volunteers and each of us was responsible to assist one of the participating teams during the workshop. 

Bellow I present my personal reflections on this workshop:

First impression 

Our roles as local hosts were not totally clear. This was both exciting and terrifying at the same time. So my strategy to deal with such a situation was to be a perfect listener in the first day in order to evaluate the situation and find my place. So I made no comments of any kind and just helped with whatever I asked to do. I was almost invisible. That actually helped a lot since the situation was totally different than what I expected.

In the near future I will write more in detail about my thesis project.

Master thesis: Abstract

ABSTRACT

Sea level is rising and glaciers are shrinking. Some animals have already moved to new homes while others are at the risk of extinction. Many agreed that it is already too late to stop climate change completely. We should accept the fact that our world is changing faster than we expected. It is time to change the way we build our cities in order to cope with this change. 

International Workshop RiverCity: A greate success for Gothenburg

International Workshop RiverCity finished with a presentation session at Handelshögskolan in Gothenburg on Saturday 11 June. Many agreed that it was a great success for the city of Gothenburg. Now everybody are looking forward to great projects which will be lunched based on the ideas generated in the workshop.

The workshop also received a good media coverage. Bellow you can see news about this workshop on SVT (Sweden's national television broadcaster):

Tursday 9 June
http://svtplay.se/v/2449745
and
http://svtplay.se/v/2449722

International Workshop RiverCity Gothenburg

Starting tomorrow the international workshop "RiverCity Gothenburg" aims to gather ideas from around the world through a transparent, collaborative, and interdisciplinary process in order to develop vision for "inclusive, green, and dynamic" Gothenburg. 

for more information go to this link

Coming back after a long time

First I would like to appologize for not updating for a long time. I was so busy with finalizing my thesis over the past couple of months.

Second, I believe there is still a lot to learns and discuss regarding this topic so I intend to continue writing in this blog although I have finished my master thesis.

Finally, I hope to have your worthy comments. I promise to update more often ;)   

Climate adaptation in Sweden

In Sweden like most parts of the world mitigation issues have dominated climate policy to date. The work mainly concerns limiting the impact through reducing GHG emissions. Sweden is relatively developed in mitigation policies and techniques such as using renewable energy sources and building passive houses while climate adaptation is in its infancy here. The issue of climate adaptation has lately risen in Sweden as a response to several extreme weather events during the past decade and it’s under development.