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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
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Staff
Jonas Alwall - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Jonas Andersson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
jonas.andersson@mau.se -
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Magnus Andersson - Associate Professor
magnus.e.andersson@mau.se -
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Matilda Annemark Sandberg - Doctoral student
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Guy Baeten - Professor
guy.baeten@mau.se -
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Fredrik Björk - Lecturer
fredrik.bjork@mau.se -
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Chad Boda - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
chad.boda@mau.se -
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Helena Bohman - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
helena.bohman@mau.se -
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Karin Book - Senior lecturer
karin.book@mau.se -
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Benedikte Borgström - Senior lecturer
benedikte.borgstrom@mau.se -
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Pål Brunnström - Senior lecturer
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
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Rebecka Cowen Forssell - Associate senior lecturer
rebecka.forssell@mau.se -
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Marwa Dabaieh - Associate Professor/Professor
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Claudia Fonseca Alfaro - Project researcher
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Martin Grander - Associate senior lecturer
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Karin Grundström - Professor
k.grundstrom@mau.se -
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Sadiq Abubakar Gulma - Doctoral student
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Jennie Gustafsson - Postdoc
jennie.gustafsson@mau.se -
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Per Olof Hallin - Associate Professor/Professor emeritus/emerita
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Anne Harju - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anne.harju@mau.se -
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Mikaela Herbert - Doctoral student
mikaela.herbert@mau.se -
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Per Hillbur - Associate Professor
per.hillbur@mau.se -
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Robert Hrelja - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
robert.hrelja@mau.se -
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El Häkkinen - Doctoral student
el.hakkinen@mau.se -
SIStaff
Sissi Ingman - Senior lecturer
sissi.ingman@mau.se -
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Sabina Jallow - Lecturer
sabina.jallow@mau.se -
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Roger Johansson - Professor
roger.johansson@mau.se -
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Ulrik Kohl - Doctoral student
ulrik.kohl@mau.se -
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Catrin Lammgård - Senior lecturer
catrin.lammgard@mau.se -
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Yujing Li - Senior lecturer
yujing.li@mau.se -
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Fredrik Linander - Doctoral student
fredrik.linander@mau.se -
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Christina Lindkvist - Associate Professor
christina.lindkvist@mau.se -
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Carina Listerborn - Professor
carina.listerborn@mau.se -
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Ju Liu - Associate Professor
ju.liu@mau.se -
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Vanja Lozic - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
vanja.lozic@mau.se -
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Anders Melin - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anders.melin@mau.se -
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Désirée Nilsson - Senior lecturer
desiree.nilsson@mau.se -
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Lina Olsson - Senior lecturer
lina.olsson@mau.se -
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Peter Palm - Associate Professor/Head of unit/Senior lecturer
peter.palm@mau.se -
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Peter Parker - Senior lecturer
peter.parker@mau.se -
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Margareta Popoola - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
margareta.popoola@mau.se -
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Erica Righard - Associate Professor /Assistant head of dep.
erica.righard@mau.se -
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Per-Markku Ristilammi - Professor
per-markku.ristilammi@mau.se -
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Kim Roelofs - Doctoral student
kim.roelofs@mau.se -
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Mathilda Rosengren - Postdoc
mathilda.rosengren@mau.se -
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Kerstin Sandell - Head of department/Professor
kerstin.sandell@mau.se -
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Elnaz Sarkheyli - Senior lecturer
elnaz.sarkheyli@mau.se -
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Anna Seravalli - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anna.seravalli@mau.se -
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Karin Staffansson Pauli - Senior lecturer
karin.pauli@mau.se -
MSStaff
Mikael Stigendal - Professor
mikael.stigendal@mau.se -
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Ingrid Kerstin Svetoft - Senior lecturer
ingrid.svetoft@mau.se -
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Mikkel Thelle - Associate Professor/Guest professor
mikkel.thelle@mau.se -
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Hoai Anh Tran - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
hoai.anh.tran@mau.se -
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Chiara Valli - Associate senior lecturer
chiara.valli@mau.se -
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Birgitta Vitestam - Senior lecturer
birgitta.vitestam@mau.se -
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Josepha Wessels - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
josepha.wessels@mau.se -
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Stig Westerdahl - Senior lecturer
stig.westerdahl@mau.se -
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Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson - Professor
caroline.wigren@mau.se
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2023 | Article in journal
Flowing Capital‐Disrupted Homes: Financialisation and Maintenance of Rental Housing in Sweden
Defne Kadıoğlu, Ilhan Kellecioğlu
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2023 | Chapter in book
Shifting notions of vulnerability and learning in Swedish prevention policy
Randi Gressgård, Vanja Lozic
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2023 | Article in journal
The Digitalisation of Swedish Housing: The First Forty Years
Fredrik Torisson
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2023 | Book
Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro
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2023 | Report
Tillträdeskrav i allmännyttan 2013–2022
Martin Grander, Martina Sjöland Kozlovic
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2023 | Article in journal
Collaborative challenges and barriers when planning and implementing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT): Lessons from Swedish BRT projects
Jakob Allansson, Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt, Robert Hrelja
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2023 | Doctoral thesis, monograph
Vindlande vägar i bostadsojämlikhetens Sverige: berättelser om marknadspraktiker, flyktingplaceringspolitik och bostadsprekaritet
Mikaela Herbert, Stig Westerdahl, Erica Righard, Helena Holgersson
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2023 | Article in journal
The Impacts of Peri-Urban Expansion on Municipal and Ecosystem Services: Experiences from Makhado Biaba Town, South Africa
Emmaculate Ingwani, Marie Thynell, L.R. Gurure, Nils G. A. Ekelund, Trynos Gumbo, Per Schubert, Verna Nel
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2023 | Article in journal
Contradictions Within the Swedish Welfare System: Social Services’ Homelessness Strategies Under Housing Inequality
Matilda Sandberg, Carina Listerborn
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2023 | Article in journal
Strengthening Urban Labs’ Democratic Aspirations: Nurturing a Listening Capacity to Engage With the Politics of Social Learning
Anna Seravalli
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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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Research project
Strategies for sustainable accessibility with public transport. New ways of dealing with social consequences and needs in public transport...
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“Lively” and “pleasant” waiting spaces: quality criteria for attractive bus stations and bus stops
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Neutralpositive Malmö
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The animate aesthetics of a beach
fredrik.linander@mau.se -
Research project
State-led versus people-led: synergies and tensions in Vietnam's urban development
hoai.anh.tran@mau.se -
Research project
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 -
Research project
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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The role of entrepreneurship and innovation for a sustainable housing supply
caroline.wigren@mau.se -
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The sustainable city: How can dialogues enable sustainable innovation in real estate companies?
caroline.wigren@mau.se -
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Politicians, citizen participation and the implementation of contentious measures for sustainable transport
robert.hrelja@mau.se -
Research project
Value conflict in urban biodiversity management - case studies of Swedish municipalities
anders.melin@mau.se -
Research project
Financialization of everyday life in Sweden. Intersectional perspectives on housing and labor precarity
chiara.valli@mau.se -
Research project
The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
Research project
The Organization of Inequality - an Intersectional Study of the Municipal Home Care Work in Malmö
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Access to housing quality: Outcomes of an unequal Swedish housing system
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The Housing-Integration-Nexus: shaping exchange and innovation for migrants’ access to housing and social inclusion - HOUSE-IN
josepha.wessels@mau.se -
Research project
On-going research on living conditions and social initiatives in Malmö's marginalised housing areas
martin.grander@mau.se -
Research project
Sharing Housing in Times of Housing Inequality
k.grundstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Housing and Welfare Research Network
tapio.salonen@mau.se -
Research project
ReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
Research project
The continuation of conflict-related violence in postwar cities: Mapping violence at the street level
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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 | DOCTORAL PROJECT
The topography of residential mobility – The politics of inequality in the Swedish housing system
karina.villacura@mau.se -
Research project
Experiences of welfare
kim.roelofs@mau.se -
Research project
A multitude of places at the same location: On neighborhood transformation and dialogue with the act of photographing as a pedagogical...
sabina.jallow@mau.se -
Research project
Public Housing and Social Mix in Practice
martin.grander@mau.se
PhD studies
Malmö University offers PhD studies in Urban studies.