
Lina Naoroz Bråten
PhD candidate in Urban Planning
at the NTNU Department of Architecture and Planning
Lina Naoroz Bråten is a PhD candidate in Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture and Planning at NTNU. She has a background in sociology (Bachelor's degree) and spatial/physical planning (Master's degree) from NTNU.
The topic of her PhD project is temporary space interventions and social life in public spaces. The research aims to investigate if and how temporary space interventions in smaller public spaces can work as solutions to improve social life and interactions in Nordic urban neighbourhoods.
The research has a micro and meso perspective and investigates how temporary space interventions can affect;
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social interactions between people in smaller public spaces at the micro level and;
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social life and well-being in Nordic urban neighbourhoods (meso level).