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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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2026 | Article in journal
"I care about transport sustainability, but i have children": Open-text surveys highlight the concerns of families with children
Elnaz Sarkheyli, Azadeh Sarkheyli
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2025 | Article in journal
Feminisms for our time! Urban inequalities and contestations in the age of global change
Syeda Jenifa Zahan, Carina Listerborn
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2025 | Article in journal
Sifting Through the Noise: Navigating Expectations for Local Music in the Kulturljudzon
Julie Goodrich
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2025 | Article in journal
'Don't be afraid of the bosses, the bosses should be afraid of us': a power resource analysis of a successful union organising on local trains in Sweden
Pål Brunnström, Andrea Iossa, Paula Mulinari
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2025 | Conference paper
Reimagining Empty Retail Spaces: Sustainable Potential for Pedestrian Streets Facing Retail Decline
Mia Münster, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
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2025 | Other
The dwelling as locus for all stages in life: on accessibility and usability for all in future-oriented housing for the 2030s
Jonas E Andersson
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2025 | Article in journal
The Bridge, The Nation State and Shape Shifting Modernity
Per-Markku Ristilammi
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2025 | Article in journal
Accounting for migration: An inquiry into a research conversation in the margins
Amanda Curry, Johan Sandström, Stig Westerdahl
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2025 | Conference paper
Walking Playfulicity and the Entangling of the Mind
Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang, Annika Hellman, Jonas Alwall, Alexander Brauer, Ewa Berg
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2025 | Book
People-led Urban Development in Vietnam: Interstitial Practices and the Production of Differential spaces in Hanoi
Hoai Anh Tran, Ngai Ming Yip
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Research projectIn the gray space(s) of housing provision. Exploring formal/informal hybridity in contexts of the Green Transition.
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Research projectScaling Deep and Scaling Up Digital Innovation: Driving Structural C hanges toward Sustainable, C ircular, and Resource-Efficient Built...
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Research projectSpaces of Reparative Memory
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Research projectA new child poverty : housing as a cause and consequence of family poverty in a conditional welfare state
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Research projectMalmö's first textile entrepreneurs – the history of the origin and development of the cotton textile industry in Malmö
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Research projectIn the gray space(s) of housing provision. Studies of informal practices in two Swedish contexts.
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Research projectWaste Management in Marginalized Areas: Individual Responsibility, Symbolic Defamation, and Structural Inequality
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Research projectMission driven area-based initiative for health and well-being
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Research projectInternational Collaboration for Climate Change Action at the frontlines
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Research projectLISTEN- Collective listening to communities and spaces as a core capability in planning towards 15- minute suburban Cities
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Research project"Ghetto Uber" in Detroit: A transdisciplinary approach to studying community-led transport solutions in unequal cities
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Research projectHousing as a digitalized service
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Research projectThe History of Malmö Muslims until 1990
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Research projectSocial and environmental justice in 15 minutes - JiM
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Research projectFuture Society and Democracy in Europe
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Research projectJÄMBO – Discretion for equal access to housing and living environments
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Research projectThe animate aesthetics of a beach
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Research projectThe Emergence of Municipal-Led Green Financialization of Urban Development in Sweden: An Inquiry of a New Form of Urban Entrepreneurialism
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Research projectFinancialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity
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Research projectThe Organization of Inequality - an Intersectional Study of the Municipal Home Care Work in Malmö
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Research projectCaring for housing quality? A study of the Swedish housing system
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Research projectOn-going research on living conditions and social initiatives in Malmö's marginalised housing areas
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Research projectThe Scania enigma and geographies of solidarity: Place identities in the shadow of growing ethno-nationalism
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Research projectReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
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Research projectRevisiting Allmänningar & Stråk. Spatial Justice in the 21st Century Urban-Rural Land Regime
k.grundstrom@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