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Urban Studies
The subject Urban Studies is defined as research regarding urban spaces content, form, planning, and transformation.
Urban Studies is the research topic situated between the social and cultural practices and the physical flows of resources, man-made landscapes, buildings, infrastructures and everyday items.
Urban Studies has its basis in subjects like:
- Business Administration
- Ethnology
- Real Estate Science
- Gender Studies
- Human Geography
- Mobility Studies
- Planning Theory
- Political Economy
- Social Geography
- Urban Economics
- Urban History
- Urban Sociology
Researchers, publications and projects

Jonas Alwall

Jonas Andersson

Chad Boda

Benedikte Borgström

Rebecka Cowen Forssell
Per Olof Hallin

Anne Harju

Robert Hrelja

Ulrik Omar Sebastian Kohl

Yujing Li

Christina Lindkvist

Vanja Lozic

Anders Melin

Robert Nilsson Mohammadi

Per Schubert

Mikkel Thelle

Hoai Anh Tran
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2025 | Article in journal
Racism Shaping Consumption Spaces: Shopping in Sweden
Carina Listerborn, Paula Mulinari, Johanna Sixtensson
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2025 | Chapter in book
Speglingar av en stad - Malmö: Ett försök att fånga staden
Roger Johansson, Per Svensson, Carina Listerborn
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2025 | Chapter in book
Ett personalkort: Malmö Strumpfabrik - också mer än strumpor
Roger Johansson
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2025 | Other
Vart har visionen om folkbildning tagit vägen?
Mikael Stigendal
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2025 | Conference paper
Beyond the Surface: Neo-Vernacular Architecture in Sweden and Denmark’s Contemporary Landscape
Birgitte Tanderup Eybye, Marwa Dabaieh
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2025 | Chapter in book
From the Mediterranean to the Nordic: Unveiling the potential ofearth construction in contemporary architecture
Jorge Fernandes, Marwa Dabaieh
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2025 | Conference paper
The Illusion of Heritage: Critiquing Pseudo-Earthen Vernacular Architecture in Qatar
Marwa Dabaieh, Mamdouh Sakr
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2025 | Chapter in book
Salty transformations: Bridging vernacular wisdom to contemporary innovations in salt architecture within the Egyptian context
Marwa Dabaieh, Deena El Mahdy, N.N. Makhlouf, Ahmed Hafez
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2025 | Conference paper
Circular Architecture Meets Circular Economy: A Pilot Experience in Interdisciplinary Teaching for Climate-Neutral Building Practices
Marwa Dabaieh, Rebecka Lundgren
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2025 | Report
Variegated Experiences of Rental Housing Financialization: Residential Property Investors in France and Sweden
Jennie Gustafsson, Matthieu Vogt
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Research project
Spaces of Reparative Memory
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A new child poverty : housing as a cause and consequence of family poverty in a conditional welfare state
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Malmö's first textile entrepreneurs – the history of the origin and development of the cotton textile industry in Malmö
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In the gray space(s) of housing provision. Studies of informal practices in two Swedish contexts.
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Waste Management in Marginalized Areas: Individual Responsibility, Symbolic Defamation, and Structural Inequality
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Mission driven area-based initiative for health and well-being
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International Collaboration for Climate Change Action at the frontlines
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LISTEN- Collective listening to communities and spaces as a core capability in planning towards 15- minute suburban Cities
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"Ghetto Uber" in Detroit: A transdisciplinary approach to studying community-led transport solutions in unequal cities
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Housing as a digitalized service
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The History of Malmö Muslims until 1990
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Social and environmental justice in 15 minutes - JiM
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Future Society and Democracy in Europe
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JÄMBO – Discretion for equal access to housing and living environments
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The animate aesthetics of a beach
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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
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Value conflicts in urban biodiversity management - case studies of Swedish municipalities
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Financialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity
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The Organization of Inequality - an Intersectional Study of the Municipal Home Care Work in Malmö
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Caring for housing quality? A study of the Swedish housing system
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Research project
On-going research on living conditions and social initiatives in Malmö's marginalised housing areas
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The Scania enigma and geographies of solidarity: Place identities in the shadow of growing ethno-nationalism
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ReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
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Revisiting Allmänningar & Stråk. Spatial Justice in the 21st Century Urban-Rural Land Regime
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Women's and men's housing situations and economic equality
martin.grander@mau.se
Doctoral studies in Urban Studies
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in Urban Studies.
Urban Studies is the scientific study of the content, form, planning, and transformation of urban areas. The subject is positioned in a field of tension between social and cultural practices and the material world of manufactured landscapes, buildings, infrastructure, and everyday objects.
Contact for doctoral studies in Urban studies: Karin Grundström