PhD Candidate in Human Geography

Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) and Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University.

Project description:

My research focus is on urban planning with an emphasis on social ambitions within planning. My point of departure is based on the fact that contemporary research on the city often focuses on notions of the dual and divided. A reason for this is that today’s modern cities are characterized of spatial segregation and unequal living conditions among people. My PhD project relates to this fact and the overall interest is to examine how this heterogeneity is handled within Swedish municipal planning, which is characterized by cooperation between public and private actors, and how socially targeted objectives are included in the planning. In other words how social questions are being dealt with by planners and in the planning process. The overall question which the PhD-project seeks to answer is: Is planning the problem or the solution for the divided/diverse city?

Projektbeskrivning

Min forskning behandlar svensk stadsplanering och dess sociala dimension. Staden beskrivs idag som delad och svenska storstäder karaktäriseras av denna uppdelning i rummet mellan olika grupper av människor. Mitt doktorandprojekt tar sin utgångspunkt i detta pluralistiska samhälle innehållande social och kulturell mångfald men även ojämna levnadsvillkor mellan människor. Det överordnade intresset i min forskning ligger vid att undersöka hur kommunal fysisk planering, som utmärks av samarbete mellan offentliga och privata aktörer, hanterar denna heterogenitet i planeringen samt hur sociala målsättningar införlivas i planeringen. En allomfattande fråga jag arbetar utifrån är om planeringen kan anses vara problemet eller lösningen på den delade staden?