I am a Professor in Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Urban Research. I completed my PhD in 2002 at Chalmers University on discourses of urban safety planning from a feminist perspective and has since then been researching urban development strategies (including smart cities), the uses of public spaces from an intersectional perspective, housing inequalities, precarious housing conditions and the digitalisation of the housing market. I have been working full time at Malmö University since 2008 and have been engaged in establishing urban studies as a field of research and education through Bachelor-, Master- and PhD level. Before that I have been working at Human Geography Departments in Stockholm and Lund, as well as Gender Studies at Lund and Malmö.
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The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…
Green and Just Cities is a new theme within the IUR which aims to highlight and contribute to a deeper understanding of the physical geographical and ecological dimensions of urban justice. The theme provides a bridge between urban studies and environmental studies by examining the multiple ways the natural and built environments are co-constitutive, and…