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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
Marwa Dabaieh
Sadiq Abubakar Gulma
Per Olof Hallin
Anne Harju
Robert Hrelja
Sissi Ingman
Ulrik Omar Sebastian Kohl
Yujing Li
Christina Lindkvist
Vanja Lozic
Anders Melin
Margareta Popoola
Per Schubert
Hoai Anh Tran
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2024 | Conference paper
Addressing and transforming complexities in cities: Exploring logics and routines in Sweden
Jonas E. Andersson, Benedikte Borgström, Kristian Stålne
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2024 | Report
Bolånemarknaden för de prekära: Vilka möjligheter har atypiskt anställda?
Hugo Lidmark, Chiara Valli
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2024 | Doctoral thesis, monograph
Concealed Stigmatization: Resident Experiences and Practices in Area-Based Development in Gårdsten
Kim Roelofs, Karin Grundström, Martin Grander, Dominika Vergara Polanska
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2024 | Chapter in book
Resisting Democratisation: Arguments Against Female Enfranchisement Among Members of the Swedish Parliament 1866–1918
Pål Brunnström, Magnus Olofsson
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2024 | Article in journal
Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice
Kristina Grange, Nils Björling, Lina Olsson, Julia Fredriksson
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2024 | Article in journal
Malmö in transition: What a city was, what it is and what it wants to become
Martin Grander
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2024 | Chapter in book
Housing And Welfare In Sweden, Norway And The Wider Nordic Region
Jardar Sørvoll, Carina Listerborn, Matilda Annemark Sandberg
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2024 | Article in journal
Delivering Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in low to medium density contexts.: Actor relationships and market conditions in smaller Swedish cities
Robert Hrelja, Tom Rye
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2024 | Chapter in book
Introduction: Do-it-yourself Urbanism in Africa's Cities
Stephen Marr, Patience Mususa
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2024 | Collection (editor)
DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice
Stephen Marr, Patience Mususa
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Research project
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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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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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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“Lively” and “pleasant” waiting spaces: quality criteria for attractive bus stations and bus stops
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Neutralpositive Malmö
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Research project
The animate aesthetics of a beach
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Research project
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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State-led versus people-led: synergies and tensions in Vietnam's urban development
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Weaving it together – the textile industry in Sweden and its international connections 1800-1990
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The sustainable city: How can dialogues enable sustainable innovation in real estate companies?
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Politicians, citizen participation and the implementation of contentious measures for sustainable transport
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Research project
Value conflict 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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Research project
The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
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Research project
The Organization of Inequality - an Intersectional Study of the Municipal Home Care Work in Malmö
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Research project
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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Research project
Sharing Housing in Times of Housing Inequality
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ReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
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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
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Research project
Experiences of welfare
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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
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