The Swiss style represented a change in the 1800's from earlier building practices to use of serial production and prefabrication. Boone provides both text and photographic comparison of the Swiss style and modern Norwegian train stations. Dutto's thesis is a study of the design of exterior building walls in several European cities. An attachment to the thesis discusses her studies of exterior wall design in Gamla Stan, the old section of Stockholm, Sweden. Her conclusion was that walls define the spatial character of streets.
Risk involved with a hazard includes potential damage to assets as well as human health and safety.
Her study reviewed Icelandic city planning to determine what extent volcanic hazards are included in city planning. In particular, she examined city plans and development in the town of Vestmannaeyjab r on the island of Heimaey, Iceland. She focused on the square and the circle as being two geometrical shapes predominant in all five of the settings studied. Pr sch's project discusses the protection of buildings in R ros, Norway. The report discusses methods used to preserve the farm buildings around the town and to keep the area as an historic cultural center.