Mikkel Thelle is an urban historian, senior researcher at the National Museum of Denmark and Lead Investigator at Transition Center of Excellence at Copenhagen University in addition to being a guest professor at Malmö. He works with urban spaces and publics, citizenship and environmental humanities, and recently has taken up research in experiences of transition between cities and country.
Publications
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Rapid Latecomers : Growth, Crisis and Welfare in… | chapter | 2026 |
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Byhistoriens sorte sammenfiltring | chapter | 2024 |
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Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since… | book | 2024 |
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Hybrid Cities : Agency, Scale, and Power :… | chapter | 2024 |
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Material politics : Approaching welfare history through urban… | article-journal | 2024 |
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Negotiating water and citizenship in Copenhagen 1850–1950 | chapter | 2024 |
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Phronologies of Networked Water : Copenhagen | chapter | 2024 |
Research Themes
At the IUR, urban humanities mobilizes humanities scholars to engage with the full range of human expression in and of the urban, from literature and visual culture to public art, the built environment, memory, and heritage. These explorations open new ways of understanding and imagining urban space, lived cities, and the cultural object we call…
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,…