Institute for Urban Research
We want to be relevant, not only to academia, but to society at large, to meet contemporary challenges of different kinds – spatial, social, economic, environmental and cultural.
Carina Listerborn, Director
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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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In the gray space(s) of housing provision. Studies of informal practices in two Swedish contexts.
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Women's and men's housing situations and economic equality
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International Collaboration for Climate Change Action at the frontlines
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"Ghetto Uber" in Detroit: A transdisciplinary approach to studying community-led transport solutions in unequal cities
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Exploring Human Rights to Public Transportation: An Inquiry into the Right to Public Transportation and Urban Mobility as a Human Right
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Housing as a digitalized service
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The History of Malmö Muslims until 1990
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Municipal governance and changing local rental markets: medium-sized municipalities’ strategies when meeting residential property investors
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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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Accounting practices in the everyday life of a refugee
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The Scania enigma and geographies of solidarity: Place identities in the shadow of growing ethno-nationalism
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Revisiting Allmänningar & Stråk. Spatial Justice in the 21st Century Urban-Rural Land Regime
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Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)
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2025 | Article in journal
Managing sustainability conflicts in urban development projects: Planners' perceptions and strategies in Oceanhamnen, Helsingborg
Elnaz Sarkheyli, Asger Anderton, Hannah Büker
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2025 | Chapter in book
Queera perspektiv på Malmös historia
Pål Brunnström, Matilda Svensson Chowdhury
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2025 | Chapter in book
A thread in the colonial web: the Malmö cotton textile industry 1855–1872
Pål Brunnström, Simon Sirenius Frohlund
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2025 | Collection (editor)
Weaving it together: Histories of the textile industry in Sweden and international Perspectives
Pål Brunnström, Simon Sirenius Frohlund
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2025 | Chapter in book
Trygghet och social hållbarhet i stadsomvandlingsprojekt
Carina Listerborn, Miriam Sahlström Negash, Burcu Yigit Turan
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2025 | Report
Good news for the squeezed middle?: EU’s new housing commissioner, state aid and housing systems in Sweden and the Netherlands
Martin Grander, Marja Elsinga
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2025 | Article in journal
Supporting Homeownership and Naturalizing Debt: The Housing Discourse in Swedish Newspapers 2005–2022
Chiara Valli, Neil Dunne
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2025 | Article in journal
The game of rental housing financialization: Institutional investors in the Swedish housing system
Defne Kadıoğlu Polat, Carina Listerborn
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2025 | Article in journal
Extending dialogues on the urban
AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Somda, Giulia Torino, Miya Irawati, Niranjana Ramesh, Nitin Bathla, Rodrigo Castriota, Simone Vegliò, Tanya Chandra
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2024 | Conference paper
EXAMINING THE SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF WATERFRONT AREAS USING SPACE SYNTAX: ASSESSING THE CONNECTIVITY AND INTEGRATION OF MIXED-USE WATERFRONTS WITH THE URBAN FABRIC
Elnaz Sarkheyli
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.
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Rebecka Söderberg
Doktor i internationell migration och etniska relationer
rebecka.soderberg@mau.seRoskilde universitet
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