Guy Baeten is Professor of Urban Studies at Malmö University and has previously worked at the universities of Lund, Oxford, Leuven and Strathclyde. He is the Director of the VR Research Environment ‘Housing as a digitalised service’ and the vice-Director of the Institute for Urban Research. Guy Baeten is interested in urban development projects, the housing question, and critical approaches to urban sustainability. Guy Baeten is part of the Horizon project Prefigure that researches housing and energy renovations in Europe. He investigates the notion of ‘liveability’ in a Nordic urban context and recently finished a project on the histories of the sustainability concept in Malmö urban planning. He co- edited Housing displacement. Theoretical and methodological issues (2021, Routledge).
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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…