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C-Valuate: Improving City-Scale Low-Carbon Investment Decision-Making: Final report
(Research report, 2018)Access to reliable, timely, and relevant information is fundamental in most areas of decision-making but may be especially important in complex fast-moving fields where multiple ideas, approaches, or options compete for ... -
Cellekontor eller åpne kontorløsninger - opplever brukerne forskjeller i mulighetene for samarbeid, kunnskapsdeling og konsentrasjon?
(Master thesis, 2010)Formålet med denne masteroppgaven har vært å se på om definerte kontorbrukere opplever forskjeller i mulighet for samarbeid, kunnskapsdeling og konsentrasjon. Dette er undersøkt i fire kunnskapsintensive virksomheter i ... -
Challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility Integration
(Chapter, 2020)This position paper addresses the field of cities, mobility, and climate change. We claim that the challenge is no longer just only individual interfaces for individual cars or mobility providers, but rather an overhaul ... -
Change your space, change your culture: exploring spatial change management strategies
(Journal article, 2017)Purpose The purpose of the paper is to explore the use of, and challenges associated with, spatial change management strategies. This is done through a discussion on how spatial environments may be utilised to effect ... -
Cleaning services in local authorities
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2015:274, Doctoral thesis, 2015)This thesis discusses cleaning services in local authorities and is a response to calls for new knowledge on public facility management (FM). The research was financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and ... -
Climate change impacts and fungal decay in vulnerable historie buildings at Svalbard
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper emphasises on degradation of wood in cultural heritage structures at Svalbard. Nowhere else does global heating occur faster. Negative impacts of climate change will increase the strain on wooden structures ... -
Co-Creation of Positive Energy Blocks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)A main challenge in building carbon-neutral built environments is the ability to scale and replicate solutions. We examine how to develop low-carbon neighbourhoods and districts, while aiming at climate-friendly and ... -
Cognition and the Built Environment
(Book, 2017)Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning, is a basic, embodied level ... -
Communicative Planning and Democratic Decentralisation in India- Case of Kolkata City
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Community Participation in Public Urban Improvement Project - Towards understanding of ‘on the ground’ processes and outcomes in the UEIP project, Banepa, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2014)There has never been common understanding of the concept of community participation. Along with the positive effects, various authors have also pointed out many negative outcomes. Nevertheless, community participation ... -
Conflicts between bikes and trucks in urban areas—A survey of Norwegian cyclists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Several challenges accompany the current growth of bike and truck volumes in urban areas, with traffic safety being one of the most critical concerns. Bike-truck accidents present a direct measure of the safety; however, ... -
Conserving the Mandala: Community-based conservation of the living sacred heritage Through reconciling faith and conservation. Case study: Bauddhanath Monument Zone – Kathmandu, Nepal
(Master thesis, 2013)hroughout this research I have tried to emphasize on the spiritual and cultural meanings embedded in the heritage materiality to signify how the conservation rituals of Bauddhanath Stupa or any other Buddhist stupas are ... -
Construction processes in hospitals - A comparative study of construction processes in hospitals in Norway and the USA
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis assesses the differences in the construction process at two hospitals, one in Norway and the other in the USA. The Norwegian health sector has received a lot of bad press regarding their internal processes ... -
Contested Formality and Incipient Informality in Delhi´s new Suburban Space - A Case Study in Savda Ghevra Resettlement Colony
(Master thesis, 2014)Forced evictions and resettlement of central slums have become a common and inevitable part of the development of cities in the global South. This is often related to the beautification processes of the cities, and most ... -
Cooperatives, Control or Compromise? The Changing Role of Participation in Norwegian Housing
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)What does it mean to participate? Participation used to be an ideological pursuit, conducted for the greater good of society; today, however, the motives and intentions behind it, are not so straightforward. This paper ... -
Coping with climate change induced floods in Natete, an informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda
(Master thesis, 2013)Rapid urbanization taking place in informal settlements of Kampala in them aggravates the impact of climate change in Kampala. The city which was designed for 300,000 people now accommodates more than 1.72 million (UBOS ... -
A Cost Model for Data Discovery in Large-Scale IoT Networks of Smart Cities
(Chapter, 2020)A smart city with huge numbers of physical (e.g., sensors and actuators) and non-physical (e.g., external databases) data sources will continuously produce high amounts of massive city-data. Distributed data storage across ... -
Crafting livelihoods: Towards an inclusive urbanization in Jaipur
(Master thesis, 2020)While cities have benefited from being the epicentre of urbanisation, the pace and scale of the process are accompanied by unequal distribution of resources that leave many behind. In India, which has a society segregated ... -
Cultural heritage in project management: project appraisal and quality assurance in the early phase of major public investments
(Journal article, 2017)This paper is an analysis of how cultural heritage values are handled in documentation related to early phase evaluations of major public investment projects in Norway. This study was instigated by an apparent lack in the ...