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Department of Urban Studies
Urban Studies
Urban Studies, US, is a multi-disciplinary department with exciting and multifaceted urban research and study programmes. The department focuses on a broad spectrum of issues relating to society and urban areas, real estate and housing, planning, organisation and public transport – nationally and internationally.
Education at Urban Studies
Urban Studies are based on people's needs and conditions and contribute to the development of sustainable and attractive cities. We offer a wide range of courses and study programmes, from the environment, real estate brokerage, real estate business and urban planning to transport management, leadership and organisation and business administration.
Our programmes and courses
Bachelor's level
- Arkitektur, visualisering och kommunikation
- Fastighetsföretagande
- Fastighetsförmedling
- Miljövetarprogrammet – Människa, miljö, samhälle
- Stadsbyggnad, stadsutveckling och planering
- Transport Management
- IT och ekonomi
- 'IT och ekonomi' is a programme given together with the Faculty of Technology and Society.
Combine courses to a bachelor's degree
- Projektledning I
- Ledarskap och organisation: grundkurs
- Ledarskap och organisation II
- Ledarskap och organisation III
Master's level
- Hållbar stadsutveckling: ledning och organisering – magisterprogram
- Ledarskap och offentlig organisation, magisterprogram
- Leadership for Sustainability, master’s programme (one-year)
- Urban Studies, master’s programme (two-year)
- Urban Studies: Urban Business and Development - Real Estate and Transport, master's programme (two-year)
- Nordic Urban Planning Studies, master's programme (two-year)
- Nordic Urban Planning Studies is a joint programme together with Roskilde University in Denmark and Tromsø University in Norway.
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 environment at Urban Studies
Our research is multi-disciplinary and investigates urban migration, urban ecology, urban economics, mobility and social sustainability, urban regeneration and smart cities. Our researchers work in a collaborative and interdisciplinary way in research centres and with organisations and companies.
Research subjects
Researchers, research publications and research projects
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Staff
Chiara Vitrano - Project researcher
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ZHStaff
Zahra Hamidi - Research assistant
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Staff
Malin Sundström - Senior lecturer
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Fredrik Torisson - Postdoc
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Staff
Filippa Säwe - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Gustav Hägg - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Isil 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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Staff
Chiara Valli - Postdoc
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EPStaff
Emil Pull - Lecturer
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Staff
Elnaz Sarkheyli - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Marwa Dabaieh - Associate Professor
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Staff
Karina Villacura - Doctoral student
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Staff
Kim Roelofs - Doctoral student
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Staff
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro - Postdoc
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MDStaff
Mustafa Dikec - Researcher
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Staff
Jonas Andersson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Rebecka Cowen Forssell - Postdoc
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Staff
Lorena Melgaco Silva Marques - Postdoc
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Staff
Robert Hrelja - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Defne Kadioglu - Postdoc
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Staff
Ulrika Flädjemark - Doctoral student
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Staff
Kerstin Sandell - Head of department/Professor
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MSStaff
Mikael Stigendal - Professor
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Staff
Désirée 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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Staff
Anneli Matsson - Doctoral student
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FBStaff
Fredrik Björk - Lecturer
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HBStaff
Helena Bohman - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Magnus Andersson - Senior lecturer
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MJStaff
Magnus Johansson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Karin Grundström - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Lina 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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Staff
Birgitta Vitestam - Senior lecturer
birgitta.vitestam@mau.se -
Staff
Christina Lindkvist - Associate Professor
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Staff
Ebba Lisberg Jensen - Senior lecturer
ebba.lisberg.jensen@mau.se -
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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Staff
Martin Grander - Researcher
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Staff
Jonas Lundsten - Senior lecturer
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SLStaff
Sylwia Lindqvist - Senior lecturer
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BBStaff
Bo Bengtsson - Timeemployee
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Staff
Guy Baeten - Professor
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Staff
Pål Brunnström - Research liaison officer
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Staff
Jonas Alwall - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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HTStaff
Hoai Anh Tran - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Sabina Jallow - Lecturer
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HFStaff
Helgi-Valur Fridriksson - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Charlotte Petersson Troije - Lecturer
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Staff
Benedikte Borgström - Senior lecturer
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AEStaff
Anders Edvik - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Maria Appelqvist - Senior lecturer
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SIStaff
Sissi Ingman - Senior lecturer
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Staff
Sandra 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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Staff
Stig Westerdahl - Senior lecturer
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PHStaff
Per Olof Hallin - Senior Professor
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Staff
Daniel Nyberg - Visiting professor
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Staff
Carina Listerborn - Professor
carina.listerborn@mau.se
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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 project
Effects of Changed Access to Public Transport
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Research project
Social consequences of overcrowding
martin.grander@mau.se -
Research project
Housing first: Children
martin.grander@mau.se -
Research project
Revisiting Allmänningar & Stråk. Spatial Justice in the 21st Century Urban-Rural Land Regime
k.grundstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Public health, epidemics and urban planning: reinstating the connection
guy.baeten@mau.se -
Research project
Turning Ageing Population from A Problem to A Source of Sustainability: A Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Approach
ju.liu@mau.se -
Research project
Densifying the cities without increased environmental health burden-is it attainable?
ebba.lisberg.jensen@mau.se -
Research project
Organisational and social safety climate in human service organisations – Developing proactive approaches and tools for research, practice...
tuija.muhonen@mau.se -
Research project
Malmö Life Stories
robert.mohammadi@mau.se -
Research project
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the early stages of planning processes – improved tools for navigating collaborative complexities and...
robert.hrelja@mau.se -
Research project
Z free home
marwa.dabaieh@mau.se -
Research project
Sharing Housing in Times of Housing Inequality
k.grundstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Norra Sorgenfri planned, populated and problematised: the role of social sustainability in urban renewal
guy.baeten@mau.se -
Research project
Rosengård – values and challenges in the shadow of an urban development process
jonas.alwall@mau.se -
Research project
Sustainable Infrastructures in Times of Scarcity: Improvements in Planning by Learning from the Global South
stephen.marr@mau.se -
Research project
RUGGEDISED
magnus.johansson@mau.se -
Research project
Immigrant integration programs in European Cities from the mid 1940s to the 1970s. A comparative case study
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
Research project
From policy to sick leave – the role of rehabilitation coordinators in governing the sick leave process.
stig.westerdahl@mau.se -
Research project
Pilots for transforming the transport sector through energy efficient buildings
christina.lindkvist@mau.se -
Research project
Housing for all – new models of financing
martin.grander@mau.se -
Research project
Smart Housing Development: A Critical Exploration through an intersectional approach
carina.listerborn@mau.se -
Research project
Time is in the air: Clocks, temporal infrastructures and urban life in nineteenth-century Paris
mustafa.dikec@mau.se -
Research project
Transitioning towards sustainable water and waste management
anna.seravalli@mau.se -
Research project
Politicising uneven regional development: Towards socially responsible geographies
lina.olsson@mau.se -
Research project
Digital harassment and cyberbullying – A new work environmental risk in schools
rebecka.forssell@mau.se -
Research project
Smart Cities in the Global South: Contributing to Cosmopolitan Urban Studies
claudia.fonseca@mau.se -
Research project
Smart cities for City Officials
guy.baeten@mau.se -
Research project
Cultivating Public Spaces: urban agriculture as a basis for human flourishing and sustainability transition in Norwegian cities
peter.parker@mau.se
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.
Read more about third-cycle education
Collaborate with US
An important task for Urban Studies is to collaborate with industry, municipalities or other parties on different projects. It is possible to collaborate with us in many ways, with relation to our research and our first-cycle courses and study programmes. Degree projects, conferences, contract education, accompanying and commissioned research are examples of activities that all take place in collaboration with society.
Platforms for collaboration
Contact us
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Head of department
- Kerstin Sandell
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Heads of units
- Cecilia Lindblom
- Karin Staffansson Pauli
- Jonas Alwall
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Administration and service
- Annette Andersson
- Sofia Johansson
- Nina Wijkström
- Ida Bennrup
- Per-Markku Ristilammi, Director of third cycle education
- Jörgen Ivarsson, Education coordinator
- Christina Lindkvist, Research coordinator
- Helena Bohman, International coordinator
- Désirée Nilsson, Chair of the Education Board
If you are looking for contact details for an education, see the respective education.