Provides a critical examination of existing cycling structures alongside current policies and practices used to promote cycling in Europe. Considering the cultural politics of infrastructure, urban space wars and questions of safety and risk, it provides policy solutions for sustainable cities. Contributors show infrastructural provision to be an intensely political act and its meaning variable according to larger political processes and contexts.

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, grade: Pass, Lund University (Department of social and economic geography), 66 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This thesis is a qualitative study of the golf course development in the village of Bara in Skane. The focus of the analysis is on sustainability, neo-liberalism and planning. It is focused on two themes, namely use of place, which involves aspects of social sustainability, neo-liberalism and planning and impacts on the environment/landscape, which involves ecological sustainability and planning/traffic planning issues. Different theories are used in order to analyse the two themes in the context of the golf course development in Bara. The theories used here are built on academic literature about social and ecological sustainability, planning theory and neo-liberalism. Perkins' theory of commodification of rural spaces, Selberg's model of less impact in the environment by traffic, Clokes and Lapping's theoretical aspects of planning and rural planning, Chan and Lee's theory on social sustainability and Marsden's and Buttel's theory on rural sustainability are of special interest in this thesis. The development in Bara is strongly connected to the local environment and to aspects of economic development. It is therefore important to investigate this kind of rural development to see what impact it has on the environmental and social aspects in Bara.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: High Pass, Lunds Universitat (Institut fur Kulturgeographie und Wirtschaftsgeographie), 39 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The move of the capital city from Bonn to Berlin in Germany was highly debated in both the daily press and in the academic world after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Germany was reunified and somehow a new country. The building of the new German capital Berlin is also strongly discussed. Berlin became a place for renewal and city development. During the 1990s and in the beginning of the new millennium Berlin went through many different development projects like the renewal of the Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin and the development of the new/old government quarter (Regierungsviertel). The Potsdamer Platz is just another place of the places discussed in Germany. The case of Berlin as a new German identity or the face of a newly reunified Germany, features prominently in different academic journals. Despite that is the issue of people's identification with places and the identity of space along with gentrification and planning are issued in some theoretical discussions through out the academic world. Identity, power and public places along with planning are issues that are very important, when it comes to Berlin and the new Germany. Berlin's development is very interesting to analyse, because Berlin and the development or redevelopment deals with different aspects of Germany's history as well as with economic or social aspects. The decision of the German government to move the German capital from Bonn to Berlin was very important for Berlin's development as the new/old capital city of Germany and the federal government invested heavily on the redevelopment of Berlin (Heineberg 2001: 236-238). Dealing with 20th-century history is understandably a very sensitive issue in Germany. Berlin has tri

Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2006 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: High Pass, Lund University (Institut fur Kulturgeographie und Wirtschaftsgeographie), 20 entries in the bibliography, language: Swedish, abstract: Denna uppsats handlar om boendesegregation i europeiska medelstora stader. Den ar en komparativ fallstudie mellan tva sadana stader. Staderna jag har valt for mitt arbete ar Malmo i Sverige och Lubeck i Tyskland. De tva staderna uppvisar flera likheter bade vad galler storlek och i viss man aven utveckling. Det finns dock aven stora skillnader mellan Malmo och Lubeck vilka jag kommer att beskriva och analysera i mitt arbete. Jag har valt detta tema pa grund av att jag ar mycket intresserad av socialgeografin. Att jag valde just Lubeck och Malmo berodde pa att jag ar uppvaxt i narheten av Lubeck och har bra kannedom om staden. Malmo valde jag, eftersom jag tycker det ar en utmarkt stad att analysera, nar det galler boendesegregation. Dessutom tror jag att bada stader liknar varandra. Mitt syfte med uppsatsen ar att reda ut om problemet boendesegregation finns i tva europeiska medelstora stader och hur dessa fenomen i sadana fall yttrar sig i de tva staderna, det vill saga vilken form av boendesegregation det handlar om och i vilka omraden dessa problem finns.