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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
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro
Per Olof Hallin
Anne Harju
Robert Hrelja
Ulrik Omar Sebastian Kohl
Yujing Li
Christina Lindkvist
Vanja Lozic
Per Schubert
Mikkel Thelle
Hoai Anh Tran
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2025 | Chapter in book
Walls and revolution in Sudan: Street art and graffiti of the Sudanese revolution 2019
Josepha Wessels, Ahmad Al Naji
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2024 | Chapter in book
Byhistoriens sorte sammenfiltring
Mikkel Thelle, Bjarke Hellemann Weiss
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2024 | Chapter in book
Phronologies of Networked Water: Copenhagen
Mikkel Thelle
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2024 | Chapter in book
Hybrid Cities: Agency, Scale, and Power : A Conversation Between Matthew Gandy, Dorothee Brantz and Chris Otter
Mikkel Thelle
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2024 | Collection (editor)
Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North
Mikkel Thelle, Mikkel Høghøj
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2024 | Chapter in book
Negotiating water and citizenship in Copenhagen 1850–1950
Mikkel Thelle
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2024 | Chapter in book
Är det verkligen trygghet vi vill ha?: Om trygghetsskapande insatser i stadsomvandling
Carina Listerborn
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2024 | Article in journal
Rent controls in comparative perspective: Reflections on an international symposium
Hamish Kallin, Neil Gray, Joe Beswick, Damian Dempsey, Siobhan Donnachie, Tommy Gavin, Jennie Gustafsson, Konstantin Kholodilin, Oksana Mironova, Edna Monroy, Jamie Palomera, Maria Persdotter, Ana Vilenica, Maria Wallstam
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2024 | Report
Barns bostad först: en forskningsrapport om erfarenheterna av ett års arbete
Martin Grander
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2024 | Other
DIY Urbanism as Expertise: Lessons from Urban Africa for Navigating Crisis
Stephen Marr, Patience Mususa
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Research project
Malmö's first textile entrepreneurs – the history of the origin and development of the cotton textile industry in Malmö
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Research project
In the gray space(s) of housing provision. Studies of informal practices in two Swedish contexts.
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Research project
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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The History of Malmö Muslims until 1990
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Research project
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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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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Weaving it together – the textile industry in Sweden and its international connections 1800-1990
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Research project
Politicians, citizen participation and the implementation of contentious measures for sustainable transport
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Research project
Value conflicts in urban biodiversity management - case studies of Swedish municipalities
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Research project
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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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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The continuation of conflict-related violence in postwar cities: Mapping violence at the street level
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Research project
Experiences of welfare
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