Department of Urban Studies
Urban Studies
Our programmes and courses
Bachelor's level
Combine courses to a bachelor's degree
Master's level
Contract education
The Department of Urban Studies provides contract education in leadership and organisation, business administration and real estate science, project management and much more. Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions on behalf of your company or organisation.
Research subjects
Researchers, research publications and research projects
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StaffChiara Vitrano - Project researcher
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ZHStaff
Zahra Hamidi - Research assistant
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StaffMalin Sundström - Senior lecturer
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StaffFredrik Torisson - Postdoc
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StaffFilippa Säwe - Senior lecturer
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StaffGustav Hägg - Senior lecturer
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StaffIsil Karatuna - Project researcher
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PPStaff
Peter Parker - Senior lecturer
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ETStaff
Eigo Tateishi - Doctoral student
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LRStaff
Lisa Ringblom - Postdoc
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StaffChiara Valli - Postdoc
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EPStaff
Emil Pull - Lecturer
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StaffElnaz Sarkheyli - Senior lecturer
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StaffMarwa Dabaieh - Associate Professor
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StaffKarina Villacura - Doctoral student
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StaffKim Roelofs - Doctoral student
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StaffClaudia Fonseca Alfaro - Postdoc
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MDStaff
Mustafa Dikec - Researcher
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StaffJonas Andersson - Senior lecturer
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StaffRebecka Cowen Forssell - Postdoc
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StaffLorena Melgaco Silva Marques - Postdoc
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StaffRobert Hrelja - Senior lecturer
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StaffDefne Kadioglu - Postdoc
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StaffUlrika Flädjemark - Doctoral student
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StaffKerstin Sandell - Head of department/Professor
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MSStaff
Mikael Stigendal - Professor
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StaffDésirée Nilsson - Senior lecturer
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JLStaff
Ju Liu - Senior lecturer
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OJStaff
Ola Jingryd - Senior lecturer
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CCStaff
Carl-Magnus Carlsson - Lecturer
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MSStaff
Maria Svener - Lecturer
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HWStaff
Hope Witmer - Associate Professor
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StaffAnneli Matsson - Doctoral student
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FBStaff
Fredrik Björk - Lecturer
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HBStaff
Helena Bohman - Senior lecturer
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StaffMagnus Andersson - Senior lecturer
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MJStaff
Magnus Johansson - Senior lecturer
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StaffKarin Grundström - Senior lecturer
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StaffLina Olsson - Senior lecturer
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RWStaff
Roger Westin - Doctoral student
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ALStaff
Ann-Charlotte Lyvall - Lecturer
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StaffBirgitta Vitestam - Senior lecturer
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StaffChristina Lindkvist - Associate Professor
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StaffEbba Lisberg Jensen - Senior lecturer
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GEStaff
Göran Ewald - Senior lecturer
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RJStaff
Roger Johansson - Professor
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PRStaff
Per-Markku Ristilammi - Professor
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StaffMartin Grander - Researcher
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StaffJonas Lundsten - Senior lecturer
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SLStaff
Sylwia Lindqvist - Senior lecturer
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BBStaff
Bo Bengtsson - Timeemployee
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StaffGuy Baeten - Professor
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StaffPål Brunnström - Research liaison officer
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StaffJonas Alwall - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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HTStaff
Hoai Anh Tran - Senior lecturer
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StaffSabina Jallow - Lecturer
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HFStaff
Helgi-Valur Fridriksson - Senior lecturer
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StaffCharlotte Petersson Troije - Lecturer
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StaffBenedikte Borgström - Senior lecturer
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AEStaff
Anders Edvik - Senior lecturer
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StaffMaria Appelqvist - Senior lecturer
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SIStaff
Sissi Ingman - Senior lecturer
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StaffSandra Jönsson - Senior lecturer
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MHStaff
Mikaela Herbert - Doctoral student
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MLStaff
Marc Landeman - Doctoral student
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PPStaff
Peter Palm - Senior lecturer
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KSStaff
Karin Staffansson Pauli - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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StaffStig Westerdahl - Senior lecturer
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PHStaff
Per Olof Hallin - Senior Professor
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StaffDaniel Nyberg - Visiting professor
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StaffCarina Listerborn - Professor
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2021 | Chapter in book
Evidence-based urban development
Magnus Johansson, Joakim Forsemalm
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2021 | Chapter in book
The Puzzle of Combined Evidences
Magnus Johansson, Joakim Forsemalm
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2021 | Article in journal
Governance reaction to the emerging megacity shrinkage in Tokyo
Eigo Tateishi, Kyoko Takahashi, Taku Nakano
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2020 | Article in journal
Rhythm of endurance and contestation
Hoai Anh Tran, Ngai-Ming Yip
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2020 | Article in journal
Shaping sustainable travel behaviour
Zahra Hamidi, Chunli Zhao
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2020 | Article in journal
Migration and housing regimes in Sweden 1739–1982
Pål Brunnström, Peter Gladoic Håkansson, Carolina Uppenberg
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2020 | Report
Transit Oriented Development (TOD)<em></em>
Robert Hrelja, Lina Olsson, Fredrik Pettersson, Tom Rye
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2020 | Report
Plans for Integrating Innovation Platforms into Local Innovative Processes
Magnus Johansson
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2020 | Article in journal
A comparative study of life cycle carbon emissions and embodied energy between sun-dried bricks and fired clay bricks
Marwa Dabaieh, Jukka Heinonen, Deena El-Mahdy, Dalya M. Hassan
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2020 | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
The Original Sin
Emil Pull, Guy Baeten, Mustafa Dikec, Koefoed Lasse, Kirsten Simonsen, Domikina Polanska
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2020 | Article in journal
Displacement
Emil Pull
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2020 | Chapter in book
A landscape of post-gentrification?
Emil Pull
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2020 | Chapter in book
Internationalisation for Technological Capability Building
Ju Liu
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2020 | Article in journal
Global Knowledge Sourcing in Thick and Diversified Regional Innovation Systems
Heidi Wiig, Ju Liu, Elena Zukauskaite
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2020 | Conference paper
Managing Stakeholders in a Housing Renovation Project
Ju Liu, Karin Staffansson Pauli, Markus Johansson
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2020 | Article in journal
En allt mer tudelad hyresmarknad och allmännyttans moment 22
Martin Grander
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2020 | Article in journal
Subventionerade bostäder för fattiga fel väg för Sverige
Martin Grander
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2020 | Article in journal
Ökad ojämlikhet i boendet i spåren av coronapandemin
Martin Grander, Tapio Salonen
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2020 | Report
Allmännyttans innovationslabb
Martin Grander
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2020 | Article in journal
Coping with tensions between standardization and individualization in social assistance
Kettil Nordesjö, Rickard Ulmestig, Verner Denvall
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2020 | Article in journal
“Claiming” equality and “doing” inequality
Rickard Ulmestig, Verner Denvall, Kettil Nordesjö
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2020 | Article in journal
Workplace bullying in the nursing profession
Isil Karatuna, Sandra Jönsson, Tuija Muhonen
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2020 | Chapter in book
Flerbostadshus som investeringsobjekt
Peter Palm
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2020 | Article in journal
Anchor effects in appraisals
Peter Palm, Magnus Andersson
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2020 | Article in journal
Calling for Responsible Inclusive Planning and Healthy Cities in Africa
Lauren Andres, John Bryson, Stuart Denoon Stevens, Hakeem Bakare, Katrina Du Toit, Lorena Melgaço
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2020 | Article in journal
Challenges, opportunities and legacies
David Adams, Lauren Andres, Stuart Denoon Stevens, Lorena Melgaco
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2020 | Article, book review
Rhythms of endurance, the practice of care and the peripheral political
Hoai Anh Tran
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2020 | Chapter in book
Introduction: housing displacement
Emil Pull, Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Maria Persdotter
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2020 | Collection (editor)
Housing Displacement
Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Maria Persdotter, Emil Pull
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2020 | Chapter in book
Conclusion: housing displacement
Maria Persdotter, Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn, Emil Pull
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2020 | Chapter in book
Keeping Out the Poor
Guy Baeten, Carina Listerborn
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2020 | Chapter in book
Emotional Displacement
Chiara Valli
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2020 | Article in journal
Reinventing the People's House
Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Aleksandra Alund, Ilhan Kellecioglu
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2020 | Article in journal
Policies for Reducing Car Traffic and Their Problematisation
Tom Rye, Robert Hrelja
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2020 | Report
Strategiska partnerskap
Pål Brunnström, Jens Sjölander
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2020 | Article in journal
Financialization of housing in Southern Europe
Simone Tulumello, Myrto Dagkouli Kyriakoglou, Alessandro Colombo
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2020 | Article in journal
Guiding the student entrepreneur
Gustav Hägg, Agnieszka Kurczewska
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2020 | Chapter in book
Does context matter?
Vanessa Stjernborg, Roya Bamzar
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2020 | Article in journal
The practice of household waste minimisation
Mimmi Bissmont
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2020 | Article in journal
The housing pathways of lesbian and gay youth and intergenerational family relations<em></em>
Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou
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2020 | Article in journal
Lofty ideals in aerial connectivity
Suzanne Harris-Brandts, David Gogishvili
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2020 | Other
Culture, politics and the economy
Mikael Stigendal
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2020 | Article in journal
A life cycle assessment of a 'minus carbon' refugee house
Marwa Dabaieh, Nargessadat Emami, Jukka Taneli Heinonen, Björn Marteinsson
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2020 | Article in journal
Credence in the Organization's Ability to Respond to Change
Anders Edvik, Martin Geisler, Tuija Muhonen, Hope Witmer, Josefin Björk
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2020 | Book
Allmännyttan och jämlikheten
Martin Grander
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2020 | Licentiate thesis, monograph
Samnyttjad mark och urbana allmänningar
Per Larsson, Katarina Nylund, Peter Parker, Richard Ek
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2020 | Article in journal
Through Internet and Friends
Ebba Lisberg Jensen, Karin Westerberg, Ebba Malmqvist, Anna Oudin
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2020 | Article in journal
Introducing Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Sweden
Chiara Valli, Feras Hammami
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2020 | Report
Blandningspolitik och strategier för social blandning
Linnéa Lindemann, Kim Roelofs
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2020 | Chapter in book
Mobility as a service
Chiara Vitrano, Matteo Colleoni
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2020 | Report
Strategiska partnerskap
Pål Brunnström, Jens Sjölander
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2020 | Chapter in book
Organisationer: Räkna pinnar eller bygga tillit?
Stig Westerdahl
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2020 | Chapter in book
Om att rulla apelsin
Stig Westerdahl
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2020 | Chapter in book
Fastighetsutveckling: pågående förändringsprocesser på bostadsmarknaden.
Stig Westerdahl
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2020 | Collection (editor)
Att vända utvecklingen
Manne Gerell, Per-Olof Hallin, Kim Nilvall, Stig Westerdahl
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2019 | Conference paper
Introduction
Pål Brunnström, Ragnhild Claesson
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2019 | Conference proceedings (editor)
Creating the City
Pål Brunnström, Ragnhild Claesson
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2019 | Conference paper
Communicating Migration History
Lars Anders Börje Hansson
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2019 | Report
Kulturen i den hållbara staden
Jonas Alwall
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2019 | Conference paper
New Collectives and Alliances
Christina Hansen
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Research projectEffects of Changed Access to Public Transport
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Research project
Social consequences of overcrowding
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Research project
Housing first: Children
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Research project
Revisiting Allmänningar & Stråk. Spatial Justice in the 21st Century Urban-Rural Land Regime
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Research project
Public health, epidemics and urban planning: reinstating the connection
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Research project
Turning Ageing Population from A Problem to A Source of Sustainability: A Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Approach
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Research project
Densifying the cities without increased environmental health burden-is it attainable?
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Research project
Organisational and social safety climate in human service organisations – Developing proactive approaches and tools for research, practice...
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Research project
Malmö Life Stories
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Research project
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the early stages of planning processes – improved tools for navigating collaborative complexities and...
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Research project
Z free home
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Research project
Sharing Housing in Times of Housing Inequality
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Research project
Norra Sorgenfri planned, populated and problematised: the role of social sustainability in urban renewal
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Research project
Rosengård – values and challenges in the shadow of an urban development process
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Research project
Sustainable Infrastructures in Times of Scarcity: Improvements in Planning by Learning from the Global South
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Research project
RUGGEDISED
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Research project
Immigrant integration programs in European Cities from the mid 1940s to the 1970s. A comparative case study
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Research project
From policy to sick leave – the role of rehabilitation coordinators in governing the sick leave process.
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Research project
Pilots for transforming the transport sector through energy efficient buildings
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Research project
Housing for all – new models of financing
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Research project
Smart Housing Development: A Critical Exploration through an intersectional approach
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Research project
Time is in the air: Clocks, temporal infrastructures and urban life in nineteenth-century Paris
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Research project
Transitioning towards sustainable water and waste management
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Research project
Politicising uneven regional development: Towards socially responsible geographies
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Research project
Digital harassment and cyberbullying – A new work environmental risk in schools
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Research project
Smart Cities in the Global South: Contributing to Cosmopolitan Urban Studies
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Research project
Smart cities for City Officials
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Research project
Cultivating Public Spaces: urban agriculture as a basis for human flourishing and sustainability transition in Norwegian cities
Third-cycle education at US
The third-cycle subject area of Urban Studies can be defined as the scientific study of the content, form, planning and transformation of urban areas. The subject is positioned in the exciting interface between social and cultural practices and the material world of landscapes, buildings, infrastructures and everyday objects.
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