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Institute for Urban Research
Urban Research
The Institute for Urban Research (IUR) seeks to consolidate and widen the strong urban research environment, including doctoral education, at Malmö University.
Future social, ecological and economic challenges are all strongly linked to urbanisation processes.
Guy Baeten, Director
Our research
IUR addresses social, economic and environmental challenges emanating from urbanisation processes.
Drawing on case studies from around the world, IUR integrates knowledge from various disciplines to propose possible solutions to urban societal challenges. The institute engages with citizens, civil society, private actors and public authorities to communicate our research results and find ways to implement solutions. The main themes of our research themes are currently housing and urban renewal, social sustainability, urban migration, urban economics, mobilities, smart cities and urban ecology.
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Staff
Jonas Alwall - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Jonas Andersson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Magnus Andersson - Associate Professor
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Guy Baeten - Associate Professor/Professor
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Pieter Bevelander - Associate Professor/Professor
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Helena Bohman - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Pål Brunnström - Project researcher
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Claudia Fonseca Alfaro - Project researcher
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Peter Gladoic Håkansson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Karin Grundström - Associate Professor/Professor
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Jennie Gustafsson - Project researcher
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Per Hillbur - Associate Professor/Associate Professor
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Robert Hrelja - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Tina Gudrun Jensen - Researcher
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Roger Johansson - Professor
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Defne Kadioglu - Project researcher
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Alexander Kalyukin - Postdoc
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Ulrik Kohl - Doctoral student
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Christina Lindkvist - Associate Professor/Associate Professor
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Carina Listerborn - Associate Professor/Professor
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Stephen Marr - Senior lecturer
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Anders Melin - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Magnus Nilsson - Professor/Pro dean
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Robert Nilsson Mohammadi - Associate senior lecturer
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Lina Olsson - Senior lecturer
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Peter Parker - Senior lecturer
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Erica Righard - Associate Professor/Associate Professor
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Per-Markku Ristilammi - Associate Professor/Professor
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Mathilda Rosengren - Postdoc
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Staffan Schmidt - Senior lecturer
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Filippa Säwe - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Mikkel Thelle - Guest professor
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Hoai Anh Tran - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Chiara Valli - Associate senior lecturer
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Josepha Wessels - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Stig Westerdahl - Senior lecturer
stig.westerdahl@mau.se
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Research project
Municipal governance and changing local rental markets: medium-sized municipalities’ strategies when meeting residential property investors
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Strategies for sustainable accessibility with public transport. New ways of dealing with social consequences and needs in public transport...
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The Emergence of Municipal-Led Green Financialization of Urban Development in Sweden: An Inquiry of a New Form of Urban Entrepreneurialism
lina.olsson@mau.se -
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Weaving it together – the textile industry in Sweden and its international connections 1800-1990
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Do-It-Yourself Practices and Politics of Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation on the Margins: Detroit in Comparative Perspective
stephen.marr@mau.se -
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Value conflict in urban biodiversity management - case studies of Swedish municipalities
anders.melin@mau.se -
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Accounting practices in the everyday life of a refugee
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The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
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Sharing Housing in Times of Housing Inequality
k.grundstrom@mau.se -
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Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the early stages of planning processes – improved tools for navigating collaborative complexities and...
robert.hrelja@mau.se -
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Revisiting Allmänningar & Stråk. Spatial Justice in the 21st Century Urban-Rural Land Regime
k.grundstrom@mau.se -
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Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS): Resilience, social cohesion and climate change in urban areas of Greater Khartoum
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Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)
josepha.wessels@mau.se
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2022 | Article in journal
Så formar historien framtidens planering: Reflektioner om kulturarv, gentrifiering och motstånd
Chiara Valli, Feras Hammami, Daniel Jewesbury
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2022 | Report
Kollektivtrafikorienterad bebyggelseplanering (KOB) i mindre tätorter och på landsbygden: Rekommendationer för policy och planering
Robert Hrelja, Lina Olsson, Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt, Tom Rye
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2022 | Chapter in book
Planning for Sustainable Urban Livelihoods in Africa
Lauren Andres, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, John R. Bryson, Hakeem Bakare, Lorena Melgaço
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2022 | Article in journal
Subverting geopolitics: the reinvention of geography in post‐revolutionary Mexico
Simone Vegliò
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2022 | Chapter in book
Social innovation för minskad segregation
Martin Grander
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2022 | Chapter in book
Marknadens kalkyler och rätten till bostad
Martin Grander, Stig Westerdahl
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2022 | Chapter in book
En god bostad? Om bostadsyta som kvalitet i en tid av ojämlikhet
Martin Grander, Matilda Sandberg
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2022 | Chapter in book
Sweden
Ola Jingryd, Martin Grander, Peter Palm
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2022 | Chapter in book
Transnationella bostadsbolag, ägarbyten och lokal organisering bland hyresgäster
Carina Listerborn, Defne Kadıoğlu Polat, Ilhan Kellecioglu
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2022 | Report
Levnadsvillkor och segregation i MKB Fastighets AB:s bostadsbestånd: Utgångslägesrapport
Martin Grander, Morten Frisch
Urban Matters
Urban Matters, a popular science journal published by IUR, publishes urban research articles and commentaries on urban events, processes, trends and discussions of urban pasts and futures. It also publishes interviews with urban experts and artists, photo essays and book reviews. The Editorial Board encourages combining academic rigueur with journalistic flair to present quality analyses of urban matters to a broader public that includes communities beyond academia.