The Institute for Urban Research is a university-wide research centre that brings together all urban research at Malmö University.
Seeking to shape a collective identity for urban research at Malmö University, the IUR aims to create a research environment that clearly meets urban challenges across the globe.
The IUR is open to all research within the broad field of urban studies but has a specific focus on seven themes: housing and urban renewal, urban economics, mobilities, urban ecology, migration, social sustainability and smart cities.
Latest news from the Institute.
Led by a group of IUR researchers, this pilot project seeks to explore uneven urban development in Berlin and Stockholm.
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Carina Listerborn has written a book chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies.
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Marilu Melo Zurita, 2019 IUR Visiting Scholar, has published a new article in City.
Read morePlease note that this seminar has been postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Brown Bag Seminar Patience Mususa. The geopolitical dimensions to smarting southern Africa’s cities This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series so feel free to bring your lunch. Check out the full program. If you don’t have access to […]
Please note that this seminar has been postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Brown Bag Seminar Isaac Tchuwa and Thoko Mtewa (Malawi University of Science and Technology). Climate change related water security and sustainable communities: The case of Lilongwe peri urban areas, Malawi This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series so feel free […]
Brown Bag Seminar David Örbring. Space and Place in School Geography in Sweden This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series so feel free to bring your lunch. Check out the full program. If you don’t have access to the 8th floor, please contact the IUR (iur@mau.se) one day before and someone […]
Brown Bag Seminar David Gogishvili. The Urbanism of Exception? Investigating Panorama Tbilisi Mega-project This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series so feel free to bring your lunch. Check out the full program. If you don’t have access to the 8th floor, please contact the IUR (iur@mau.se) one day before and someone will […]
Theme of the workshop The tales of a city is a trope familiar from popular culture, but also from scholarship. Using the British city of Milton Keynes as example, anthropologist Ruth Finnegan (1998) has shown that the perceptions of cities and experiences of city-life is mediated through culturally circulated stories. However, the stories told about […]
