Urban trees have the potential to mitigate urban environmental problems caused by climate change and urbanization, and to increase the resilience of cities by delivering a range of ecosystem services. Spatial context, i.e. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...