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The Life and Form of the City 2011-12-19
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Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research On January 18, 2012 at 3 p.m. Professor Loïc Wacquant will give the Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research, on the subject "Paradoxes of ghettoization". Place: Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus. Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. His research spans urban relegation, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, embodiment, social theory and the politics of reason. Wacquant has published more than a hundred articles in journals of sociology, anthropology, urban studies, social theory and philosophy, and his books have been translated to some dozen languages.Wacquant is one of the most popular lecturers at Berkeley. Students come from all over the Bay Area to hear him. Arranged by the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), Uppsala University, This is the second Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research. The lecture is free of charge and everyone is welcome! 2011-12-12
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Doctoral disputation in Social and Economic Geography 2011-12-05
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Care practices in animal experimentation Tora Holmberg, IBF, has written the article "Mortal love: Care practices in animal experimentation" in Feminist Theory. In this article the author investigates how laboratory workers handle dilemmas in talk and practice. How is it possible to both love and harm in this context. Here it is demonstrated that empathy and affection for individual animals, as well as species, are strong components of an experimental ethos expressed by the informants. Furthermore, the article deals with the issue of 'killing well', with care: quickly and compassionately. The article is the author's attempt to capture and theorise this dialectic, arguing that emotions of love and friendship are not mere justifications for the harm and killing performed, but rather intrinsic dimensions of the embodied animaling of experimental human-animal relations. 2011-11-18
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David Harvey visits Uppsala 2011-11-09
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Neighbourhood choice and characteristics Lina Hedman, IBF has, together with Maarten van Ham, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and David Manley, University of Bristol, England, written the article "Neighbourhood choice and neighbourhood reproduction" in Environment and Planning A. Researchers know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings but the knowledge of the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice is limited. Most studies of neighbourhood choice focus on whether households move into a poverty or into an ethnic concentration housing area. The authors argue that the choice of a particular neighbourhood is often complicated and that the models of neighbourhood choice should take multiple dimensions into account. The article uses register data for all households which moved in the city of Uppsala between 1997 and 2006. The results show that the households are very likely to choose neighbourhoods where the population matches their own characteristics. Income is the most important factor, although ethnicity and other demographic and socioeconomic characteristics also play important roles. 2011-11-07
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PhD position in Sociology 2011-10-31
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What kind of components are important in urban parks? 2011-10-25
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The Urbanization of Capital
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Animal studies in the city 2011-10-03
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Anthropology and Analysis of Contemporary Power Clarissa Kugelberg, IBF, has written the chapter "Integration policy and ethnic minority associations" in Cris Shore, Susan Wright & Davide Peró (eds), Policy Worlds. Anthropology and Analysis of Contemporary Power. In her article Kugelberg show how many different conditions the ethnic minority associations must fulfill in order to receive government funds, and how this policy affects the activities and ambitions of the association. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them. 2011-09-26
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Making Multicultural Democracy Work Bo Bengtsson, IBF together with Per Strömblad and Gunnar Myrberg both at the Institute for Futures Studies, has written the chapter “Optimal opportunities for ethnic organization and political integration? Comparing Stockholm with other European cities” in Laura Morales & Marco Giugni (eds), Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? This book reports the findings of the first large scale international comparative project on civil society and political inclusion of migrants. Making use of survey data from more than 10,000 individuals in ten European cities, the book demonstrates the multidimensional nature of political inclusion of migrants, being affected by individual characteristics of migrants, voluntary associations, and political opportunities. It is demonstrated that certain legal, policy and discursive approaches are more effective than others in including migrants in the political community. 2011-09-19
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Peri-urban farms as settings for therapeutic horticulture for clinical depression
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Residential mobility and neighbourhood effects Lina Hedman, IBF, has written the article "The Impact of Residential Mobility on Measurements of Neighbourhood Effects" in Housing Studies. Neighbourhoods and cities are dynamic, their characteristics and relative positions change over time due to constant moves in and out. Embedded in neighborhood theory seems to be the assumption that neighborhoods are static but in reality, neighbourhoods are subject to constant processes of change. This paper argues about the necessity to include the impact of residential mobility on measurements of neighbourhood effects and the need of a more holistic approach that includes residential mobility when theorizing and measuring neighborhood effects. 2011-08-29
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Immigration, Housing and Segregation in the Nordic Welfare States Roger Andersson, Lena Magnusson Turner and Emma Holmqvist, IBF have written the chapter "Contextualising ethnic residential segregation in Sweden: welfare, housing and migration-related policies" in the report Immigration, Housing and Segregation in the Nordic Welfare States written by 11 Nordic authors within the so-called Norface project. Sweden has a long history of welfare policies, where the state traditionally has been involved in people's life from cradle to grave. The Swedish welfare system was from the beginning both generous and universal. In times with a harsher economic climate, with high unemployment rates and a globalized economy, a generous and universal welfare state has been politically harder to maintain. The polarization has increased in incomes and between richer and poorer housing estates in metropolitan regions. Sweden has also changed from being an emigration country to an immigration country. The researchers analyzed immigration and integration policy since World War II and they identify some important moments of profound changes. Today there are 1 357 000 foreign-born individuals living in Sweden (14.4 per cent of the total population, 9.4 Million). The authors point out some key features of the ethnic residential segregation in Stockholm County: 1) the basic geographical pattern is very stable over time; 2) immigrant-dense neighbourhoods are economically poor; 3) Refugees from the Middle East and Africa tend to live in economically poor neighbourhoods; 4) Despite the fact that immigrant-dense areas are reproduced over time, they are also highly dynamic places. Individuals do not remain for longer periods of time in the same neighbourhood. In the next step the researchers will study housing careers and neighbourhood dynamics and compare the developments in Stockholm with those in Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo. 2011-08-22
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IBF researcher appointed honorary professor in Edinburgh
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Nature experience, environmental attitude and ecological behavior 2011-07-22
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Secrets and lies of animal experimentation Tora Holmberg, IBF, and Malin Ideland, Malmö University have written the article "Secrets and lies: 'selective openness' in the apparatus of animal experimentation" in Public Understanding of Science. The aim of the paper is to describe and analyse the meanings of secrets and openness in contemporary animal experimentation. Researchers and other actors within the apparatus of animal experimentation find themselves in a tight corner. They rely on public acceptance to promote their legitimacy and to receive funding. They also take risks by going public, fearing that the public will misunderstand their work and animal rights activists may threaten them. 2011-06-23
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Internal rents and the ownership of state properties 2011-06-10
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Latin Americans in Sweden 2011-05-27
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Forests, Trees and Human Health Terry Hartig, IBF, has together with Kjell Nilsson, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Sjerp de Vries, Klaus Seeland and Jasper Schipperijn, co-edited the book Forests, Trees and Human Health. Hartig has also co-authored three chapters in the book: 1) "Health benefits of nature experience: Psychological, social and cultural processes" (with 12 co-authors), 2) "Health benefits of nature experience: Challenges in joining practice and research" (with four co-authors), 3) "Health benefits of nature experience: Implications of practice for research" together (with three co-authors). There is a link between modern lifestyles and increasing levels of chronic heart disease, obesity, stress and poor mental health across the world. The cost of dealing with these conditions places a large burden on national public health budgets so that policymakers are increasingly looking at prevention as a cost-effective alternative to medical treatment. The book explores the relationships between health, natural environments in general, and forests in particular. Scientists from 25 countries drew together work carried out over four years in the fields of forestry, health, environment and social science. The focus is mainly on Europe, but the book also covers research from North America and elsewhere. 2011-05-16
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New Ph.D. thesis in Sociology: One Hundred Years of Coupledom >>> See abstract 2011-05-09
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Anders Lindbom, IBF, has written the article "School Choice in Sweden: Effects on Student Performance, School Costs, and Segregation" in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. The most important result is that the impact – both the positive and the negative – is relatively marginal. Municipal school costs tend to rise marginally. The effects on school segregation are complex, but tentatively school choice has added somewhat to the effect of residential segregation. 2011-04-26
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Ethnic diversity and financial support Matz Dahlberg, IBF, Karin Edmark, The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockhom and Heléne Lundqvist, Department of Economics Uppsala University have written Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution (Working Paper 2011:1 from Department of Economics). In the last decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to the European countries has increased substantially. The researchers have examined whether increased ethnic heterogeneity in society affects natives' preferences for redistribution. The results indicate that a larger immigrant population leads to weaker support for redistribution in the form of preferred social benefit levels, especially among respondents with high income and wealth. 2011-04-12
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Therapeutic horticulture in clinical depression Terry Hartig has together with four Norwegian colleagues, Marianne Thorsen Gonzales, Grete Grindal Patil, Egil W. Martinsen and Marit Kirkevold written the article "Therapeutic horticulture in clinical depression: a prospective study of active components" in Journal of Advanced Nursing. The aim of the study was to assess change in depression severity, perceived attentional capacity and rumination in individuals with clinical depression during a therapeutic horticulture programme. 28 adults between 25–64 participated in the study in 12 weeks. The researchers found a clinically significant decline for 50 per cent of the participants. The study helps to fill the gap in research on therapeutic horticulture in mental health care and further illustrates the potential utility of attention restoration theory for the design and assessment of nature-based interventions. The findings might inspire clinicians of any profession dealing with clinical depression to inform clients and colleagues about the potential benefits of horticultural or other nature-based activities. Of interest to urban researchers, the intervention was carried out on farms in the greater Oslo area, where farmers are looking for alternative activities that fit better with their peri-urban circumstances. 2011-03-21
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Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia Bo Bengtsson, IBF, Per Strömblad, Institute for Future Studies and Ann-Helén Bay, Institute for Social Research, Oslo have edited a new book, Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia. Bengtsson has also written the chapter "Political opportunity structure and ethnic organization: How political, what opportunities, which structures?" and, together with Ann-Helén Bay and Per Strömblad "An introduction to diversity, inclusion and citizenship in Scandinavia". This book sheds light on how the traditionally homogeneous welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle to develop as democratic societies in the globalization era. The 19 authors present new and original empirical findings, case studies and comparative analyses and they also offer important theoretical contributions to general social science discourses. The chapters provide a source of information, not only for those seeking to understand the current trends in Scandinavian integration policies, but also for those who are generally interested in issues of diversity, inclusion and citizenship. 2011-03-14
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Welfare retrenchment and media Anders Lindbom, IBF, has written the article "Media news evaluation and welfare retrenchment: The untransparent cutbacks of the housing allowance" in Scandinavian Political Studies. Radical welfare cutbacks normally only occur if there is obfuscation and citizens do not notice the changes. But the media can make untransparent events known and understandable to citizens. This article focuses on an important political topic that did not have media coverage – cutbacks of the housing allowances. Interviews have been done with important journalists from Swedish media regarding their news evaluation of these events. The implication is that obfuscation of cutbacks is indeed a useful governmental strategy. 2011-02-28
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The paradox of participatory planning Nils Hertting and Clarissa Kugelberg, both at IBF, have written the article "Democratic dilemmas of participatory planning" in Urban-Net Research Anthology 2010. The authors investigate the pitfalls and dilemmas of enhanced participation in urban planning. They take an innovative look at the institutions, relationships and strategies associated with planning processes and ask how we can have greater democracy in urban planning without compromising the functionality and accountability of civic administrations and elected representatives. 2011-02-21
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Attitude Research and Campbell's Paradigm Terry Hartig, IBF, Florian G. Kaiser, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany and Katarzyna Byrka, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands have written the article "Reviving Campbell’s Paradigm for Attitude Research" in Personality and Social Psychology Review. People often say one thing and do another. This poses a major challenge for attitude research, in that attitude is measured in terms of what people say that they think is important or good. Measured in this way, attitude does not predict behavior well. Donald Campbell proposed that the root of the seeming inconsistency between attitude and behavior lies in disregard of behavioral costs. In this article, the authors present the constituents of and evidence for a paradigm for attitude research that describes individual behavior as a function of a person's attitude level and the costs of the specific behavior involved. 2011-02-07
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A Nordic perspective on local public sector in transition Matz Dahlberg, IBF, has written a chapter, "Local government in Sweden" in Antti Moisio (red.) Local public sector in transition: A Nordic perspective. In the last chapter Dahlberg – and the other authors – also comments on the Finnish situation. This book is intended to serve as a resource for those who want to understand the recent reforms of local government organization, tasks and funding in Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. A special focus is on Finnish local government and how the present Finnish situation compares with developments in other countries. The book also offers a more general view of local government reforms and the way that fiscal federalism has been affected by the global fiscal crisis. 2011-01-24
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Political Participation of Ethnic Associations Bo Bengtsson, IBF and Per Strömblad, Institute for Future Studies, have written the Working Paper Political Participation of Ethnic Associations. Exploring the Importance of Organisational Level Differences in Resources, Motivation and Recruitment Networks. The authors contribute to the research on the political integration of ethnic minorities by examining resources, motivation and recruitment networks of ethnic associations, and probe the extent to which these mechanisms influence collectively organized political participation. The data are based on face to face interviews with representatives of 106 associations organising four different immigrant groups in Stockholm. The results indicate that participation rates of ethnic associations vary with size, access to information technology, level of internal democracy, overall aspiration to influence society, and contacts with political elites. Noteworthy, however, analyses suggest that members’ proficiency in the Swedish language is not important in this respect. 2011-01-17
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Who Is Affected by Neighbourhood Income Mix? Roger Andersson, IBF, together with med George Galster, Wayne State University, Detroit and Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, has written the article "Who Is Affected by Neighbourhood Income Mix? Gender, Age, Family, Employment and Income Differences" in Urban Studies. In this paper the researchers investigate how the nature and magnitude of the impact of neighbourhood income mix on adult labour incomes differ across individuals based on their gender, age, family status, employment status and income. One of the results is that neighbourhood mix effects are consistently stronger for parents and those who do not work full-time, independently of other individual dimensions, although a combination of personal attributes typically governs the vulnerability of the individual to the neighborhood. 2011-01-10
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Preference for Restorative Situations Terry Hartig, IBF, together with Henk Staats and Erika Van Gemerden at Leiden University, the Netherlands, has written the article "Preference for Restorative Situations: Interactive Effects of Attentional State, Activity-in-Environment, and Social Context" in Leisure Sciences. The focus of this article is on psychological restoration and the degree to which different activities, environments and social contexts available in cities can fulfill restoration needs. 70 participants read scenarios describing an attentional state (fatigued, fresh) and rated their preference for different situations involving activities alone or with a fried at home, park, city center, and transit. The park was most preferred given attentional fatigue, but the participants also clearly appreciated other opportunities for restoration. 2010-12-21
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Ethnic segregation and the Swedish school system Eva Andersson, IBF, together with John Östh, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University and Bo Malmberg, Stockholm University, has written the article "Ethnic segregation and performance inequality in the Swedish school system: a regional perspective" in Environment and Planning A. Sweden has been transformed from an ethnically homogenous country into a country with a large visible minority and today more than 14 percent are foreign born. The researchers survey the effect of this change on school segregation. They compare segregation levels in regions with different shares of visible minority students and they find that school segregation is higher in regions with a large visible-minority population and that, controlling for student background, there are smaller differences in performance across schools in regions with low shares of minority students. 2010-12-14
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Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation Evert Vedung, IBF and Morten Balle Hansen, University of Southern Denmark, have published the article "Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation" in American Journal of Evaluation. This article introduces a new approach to intervention (program) theory evaluation called Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation. Most theory-based approaches are program-theory driven and some are stakeholder-oriented as well. Practically all of the latter fuse the intervention perceptions of the various stakeholder groups into one unitary program theory. The Hansen-Vedung TSE model keeps the program theories of the diverse stakeholder groups apart from each other and from the program theory embedded in the institutionalized intervention itself. This represents an important extension of the standard theory-based evaluation. 2010-11-30
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Genetics and feminism 2010-11-16
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Path Dependence in Housing Bo Bengtsson, IBF, and Hannu Ruonavaara, University of Turku, have been guest editors of a special issue of Housing, Theory and Society (vol. 27, no. 3 2010) on path dependence in housing. They have also written the introduction article, "Introduction to the Special Issue: Path Dependence in Housing" (pp. 193–203). Path dependence can be seen as the basic causal mechanism influencing various social and political processes in historical versions of institutional theory. The general idea is that if, at a certain point in time, the historical development takes one direction instead of another, some otherwise feasible, alternative paths will be closed – or at least difficult to reach – at a later point. The four articles included in the special issue analyze and discuss critical junctures and mechanisms of path dependence on different levels. Besides Bengtsson and Ruonavaara the authors are: Julie Lawson, OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Delft; Peter Matthews University of Glasgow; Birgitta Gomez Nielsen, University of Copenhagen and Douglas Robertson, Ian McIntosh & James Smyth, University of Stirling. 2010-11-09
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Who leaves rental housing? 2010-11-02
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Evert Vedung's article "Four Waves of Evaluation" has been published in the journal Evaluation. Four evaluative waves have swept Sweden, the Nordic countries, Europe and the Atlantic world since the 1960s: 1. Science-driven Wave Every wave has deposited sediments, which form present-day evaluative activities. 2010-10-26
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The connection between leisure home ownership and early death 2010-10-12
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The marketisation of Swedish research Jim Kemeny, professor emeritus in of sociology at IBF, has written "The Political Economy of Contract Research in Sweden", Chapter 3, pp. 41-55 in Chris Allen & Rob Imrie (eds), The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research (Ashgate, 2010). For the last 20 years the Swedish system of research funding has been undergoing radical change from the funding of long-term permanent research posts to short-term contract research. Sweden is therefore moving down the same road that the UK began to travel a quarter of a century ago. Kemeny examines the way in which the marketisation of Swedish research is being carried out and the political and bureaucratic structures of decision-making that have been erected to organize and control this brave new world of research. 2010-10-05
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Doctoral disputation in Social and Economic Geography Zara Bergsten, IBF, will defend her doctoral dissertation in social and economic geography, Better prospects through social mix? Mixed neighbourhoods and neighbourhood effects: An analysis of the purpose and effects of social mix policy, on October 1, at 10.00 in Ekonomikum, Hörsal 2, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, Uppsala. Discussant is Kerstin Westin, Umeå university. 2010-09-27
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New Ph.D. thesis in Economics: Essays on Valuation of Environmental Attributes 2010-09-20
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Paradigm shift in German family policy Hanne Martinek, IBF, has written the chapter "Die Einführung des Elterngeldes: Ermöglichung der finanziellen Unabhängigkeit für (alle) Frauen?" (The introduction of parental insurance in Germany: enabling (all) women to be financially independent?) in Diana Auth, Eva Buchholz & Stefanie Janczyk (eds.), Selektive Emanzipation. Analysen zur Gleichstellungs- und Familienpolitik. Martinek analyzes the new parental insurance which was introduced in Germany in 2007 and which was designed after the Swedish model. She shows that the new parental insurance has very different effects for different women depending on their social class and ethnic background. 2010-09-06
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Health and economic performance in Sweden Eva Andersson, IBF has together with Bo Malmberg, Stockholm University and S.V. Subramanian, Harvard School of Public Health, written the article "Links between ill health and regional economic performance: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal data" in Environment and Planning A. The researchers have used a longitudinal database covering the entire Swedish population to track the impact of poor health on individuals, family members, and their business coworkers. Their main finding is that poor health not only has a negative impact on earnings, savings, and the labour-market status of individuals struck by illness, but that it has spillover effects on the health and earnings of spouses and the earnings of adult children. 2010-08-23
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Lena Magnusson Turner, IBF, has written the report Study on housing exclusion. Welfare policies, housing provision and labour markets. Country report for Sweden. This is one of six country reports from a study on housing exclusion that has been commissioned by the EU. The objective of the study is to provide evidence on the interaction between housing, welfare and employment in the light of recent reforms in the European Union. This report presents new quantitative and qualitative evidence from Sweden. Lone parents and single households, especially single women, have the highest risk of poverty. Working age couples with and without kids, where both have employment, have the lowest risk of poverty. 2010-08-16
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Social mix in the neighbourhood – good or bad? Roger Andersson, IBF, and Sako Musterd at the University of Amsterdam, have written the article "What scale matters? Exploring the relationships between individuals' social position, neighbourhood context and the scale of neighbourhood" in Geografiska Annaler B. This article focuses on the issue if social mix is good or bad for the prospects of individuals at a level that is very local, for example a few neighbouring streets. Or could social mix rather be helpful at a somewhat higher scale? 2010-07-19
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The psychological benefits of indoor plants Terry Hartig, IBF, together with Tina Bringslimark and Grete G. Patil, both at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås, has written the article "The psychological benefits of indoor plants: A critical review of the experimental literature" in Journal of Environmental Psychology. The practice of keeping plants indoors has a long history, but little is known about the psychological effects. In this paper the researchers focus on passive experiences with plants and not guided interactions with plants or horticultural therapy, they also excluded studies of the effects of plants on air quality. The reviewed experiments addressed a variety of outcomes, including emotional states, pain perception, creativity, task performance, and indices of autonomic arousal. In general the results appear to be quite mixed. The work will serve the broader objective of stimulating and providing support for further research on the topic. 2010-07-12
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How researchers handle transgenic dilemmas Tora Holmberg, IBF, has written an article: "Tail tales: How researchers handle transgenic dilemmas" in New Genetics and Society. Transgenic animals are animals that have been purposefully genetically altered; genes have been knocked out, added or reinforced in order to study the effects in a living (or dead) organism. The aim of the present article is to discuss dilemmas associated with transgenic mice as they appear in research practices. The analysis is done using a framework combining insights from animal studies, a doing ethics perspective and a rhetorical discourse tradition. The methods used are interviews andw ethnographic fieldwork. 2010-07-05
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Wealth effect and China's consumer spending Jie Chen, IBF and Fudan University, China, together with Feng Guo at Northern Kentucky University, USA and Weitao Zhang at Fudan University, China, have written the article: "How important are wealth effects on China's consumer spending?" in The Chinese Economy. The article investigates the impact of disposable income and assets on consumer spending trends in China. The empirical results suggest that there is a unique long-run relationship among consumption, disposable income, and total wealth. Disposable income has a larger effect on consumption than assets in the long run. 2010-06-28
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Doctoral disputation in Economics 2010-05-14
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Restorative qualities of indoor and outdoor exercise Terry Hartig has together with Stella-Maria Hug, Ralf Hansman and Klaus Seeland at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and Rainer Hornung, University of Zürich written the article "Restorative qualities of indoor and outdoor exercise settings as predictors of exercise frequency" in Health & Place. The main research question concerned whether and in which way restorative quality ratings given by visitors at peri-urban fitness centers predict their indoor and outdoor exercise frequency. 319 members of fitness centers in Zurich that offer indoor and outdoor exercise alternatives participated in the study. The outdoor exercise settings had generally higher restorative quality than the indoor ones. The authors discuss the results with regard to the provision of exercise settings for urban population. 2010-04-30
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Bengt Turner (1946–2007), former professor in economics and director of IBF has – together with Christine Whitehead, Rebecca L.H. Chiu and Sasha Tsenkova – written the article "Land Use Regulation: Transferring Lessons from Developed Economies" in Somik V. Lall, Mila Freire, Belinda Yuen, Robin Rajack and Jean-Jacques Helluin (eds), Urban Land Markets. Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization. This book is based on contribution to a symposium in Washington, May 2007 and focuses on the theme of urban land use and land markets, including implications for city spatial growth, efficiency and equity. 2010-04-06
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Swedish Policies and Experiences of Segregation Roger Andersson and Emma Holmqvist, IBF, together with Åsa Bråmå, Linköping University, have published the article "Counteracting Segregation: Swedish Policies and Experiences" in Housing Studies. This paper analyses the background for the interest in residential segregation that has been on the Swedish political agenda since the early 1970s. It presents some basic features of socio-economic and ethnic residential segregation. Three more specific anti-segregation policies are also identified and analysed: housing and social mix policy, refugee dispersal policy and area-based urban policy. The analysis shows that none of the policies has affected levels of segregation more than marginally. The article is a contribution to a special issue on the theme "Housing Policy, (De)segregation and Social Mixing: An International Perspective". 2010-03-22
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Small urban parks and restoration Helena Nordh, Caroline M. Hägerhäll and Gary Fry at University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway, has, together with Terry Hartig, IBF, written the article "Components of small urban parks that predict the possibility for restoration" in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. In densifying cities, small green spaces such as pocket parks are likely to become more important as settings for restoration. Well-designed small parks may serve restoration well, but what specific components will support the restoration? Individual parks were sampled from Scandinavian cities, and each park was represented by a single photo. Each photo was quantified in terms of the different objective park components and also rated on psychological variables related to restoration. The variables most predictive of the likelihood of restoration were the percentage of ground surface covered by grass, the amount of trees and bushes and the apparent park size. The results provide guidance for the design of small urban parks. 2010-02-24
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Swedish social mix policy without an ethnic focus Emma Holmqvist and Zara Bergsten, IBF, have written the article "Swedish social mix policy: a general policy without an explicit ethnic focus" in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. Neighbourhood social mix is a pressing issue for both researchers and policy makers in the Western world. In an international perspective, Sweden offers an interesting case as both the structure of the housing market and the focus of the social mix policy differs from other countries. This article is based on official housing policy documents and interviews with public actors. The overall aim is to analyse the Swedish policy in relation to similar policies in other countries, this to point at some of the existing differences, especially the different perspective on ethnic segregation. Even though Sweden has experienced increasing immigration, which has added an ethnic dimension to housing segregation, the Swedish social mix policy has remained a general policy for counteractiSng socioeconomic segregation, rather than ethnic segregation. This is an important difference compared to other mixing strategies in Europe and North America where ethnic mix has been, and still is, at the top of the agenda. 2010-02-01
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Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth and Consumption in China Jie Chen, IBF, together with Fung Guo, Northern Kentucky University, USA and Aiyoung Zhu, Fudan University, Shanghai has written the article, "Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth and Consumption in China" in China & World Economy. The paper investigates the relationship between changes in asset wealth and the trend movements of household consumption in urban China. The researchers demonstrate, by using a model, that there is a unique long-run cointegrating relationship between household consumption, disposable income, financial wealth and housing wealth in urban China. 2010-01-05
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The ambivalence of public space today Mats Franzén, IBF has written the article "Between pleasure and virtue. The ambivalences of public space today" in Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu 47(3): 6–23 (The Finnish Journal of Urban Studies). The author discusses public space, which has become a critical issue for several reasons. On the one hand, there are arguments in favour of its political uses, and against its privatization; on the other hand, there are arguments for its safety, proposing zero tolerance policing, its privatization and similar solutions as remedies for the future. These arguments are being repeated presently and can be termed 'peoples right to the city' and 'securing safety in the city', respectively. Together, they create public space as a most ambivalent phenomena – but that has to be recognised as that. 2009-12-29
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Per Gustafson at IBF has written a chapter entitled "Your home in Spain: Residential strategies in international retirement migration", published in the edited volume Lifestyle Migration: Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences. The chapter is based on interviews with Swedish retirees who spent their summers in Sweden and their winters in Spain. It examines the motives behind this lifestyle, but also the residential strategies developed by the retirees in order to manage their transnational multiple dwelling. 2009-12-04
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Doctoral disputation in Social and Economic Geography 2009-11-16
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Political integration of ethnic organisation members Bo Bengtsson, IBF, together with Per Strömblad at Institute for Future Studies, has written the article "Empowering Members of Ethnic Organisations: Tracing the Political Integration Potential of Immigrant Associations in Stockholm" in Scandinavian Political Studies. A positive link between engagement in voluntary associations and political participation has been observed regularly throughout the last decades of political-sociological research. This article focuses on the capacities of immigrant organisations to promote the political integration of ethnic minority members. Interviews has been done with representatives of 106 organisations of four different immigrant groups in Greater Stockholm The authors fins that size and diversification of activities largely explain observed differences between associations of the ethnic categories included in this study. 2009-10-26
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Gender-equal Political Participation in Sweden 2009-10-05
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Ethnic associations and urban network governance Nils Hertting, IBF, has written an article, "Neighborhood network governance, ethnic organization, and the prospects for political integration", in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. In brief, the article outlines how different mechanisms of ethnic organization might contribute to a more politically integrated society. The author argues that a shift to more horizontal network modes of governance affects the different democratic functions of ethnic associations differently. Sometimes these integration mechanisms are contradictory, causing dilemmas that has to be dealt with by local actors. 2009-09-28
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Is there any uniform European system for ethnic categorization? Roger Andersson, IBF and twelve other researchers from seven European countries have written a research note "The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe" in Journal of International Migration and Integration. Different European nation-states use the most diverse statistical constructions of foreign origin or ethnic minority populations. Several countries even shun from producing such data. This makes international comparison a very difficult endeavour. It is important that researchers are aware of these problems and do not simply accept data at face value, especially in comparisons. In this article the authors embark on a comparative explorative study of the way in which immigrant background and immigration related ethnicity is taken stock of by national statistical institutes in a set of European nation-states. The authors also reflect on what kind of data would be needed in the future. 2009-09-21
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New Blog by Jim Kemeny Jim Kemeny, Professor Emeritus of Housing and Urban Sociology at IBF, has recently started a blog, "Jim’s Research Notes", at his homepage. It is not the usual daily diary-type web-log, as it is only about research and new posts are added at varying intervals of days or weeks. Each post is a Research Note and can be understood as freestanding short working paper that has not been subject to a recognised peer review process before publishing. More than one research note may be combined to form basic elements of a longer thematic Working Paper for seminar or conference presentation, or for submitting to a journal to be considered for publication. >>> http://jims-research-notes.blogspot.com/ 2009-08-31
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Jie Chen, IBF, together with med Zhao Chen och Xiaofeng Liu, Fudan University, China, has written the article "Finding Housing in China: The Market-Oriented Reform of China's Urban Housing System" in Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang (eds), Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Reform and Opening Up. After 30 years of rapid economic growth, standards of living in China have increased appreciably and many families have been raised from poverty. This title explores a set of issues from an economic perspective. It addresses issues ranging from land tenure and housing to migration, labour markets, healthcare, and demographics. 2009-08-10
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Terry Hartig, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at IBF, has been appointed Professor of Applied Psychology from May 1, 2009. 2009-07-24
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Mobility and territorial belonging 2009-07-14
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On the borderline of 'sick' and 'healthy' buildings and schools Eva Sandstedt, IBF, has written the article "On the borderline of 'sick' and 'healthy' buildings and schools: the concept of sustainability problematised" in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, Volume 14, Issue 5, 2009 (p. 431 – 441). Indoor air in our homes, workplaces and schools is a global concern, an issue in policy and science, and part of the World Health Organization's programme on environmental awareness. In the present article the author discusses a specific problem in Sweden, namely sick-building syndrome (SBS) and the notion of 'sick' buildings. This health problem is analysed from different perspectives: political, scientific and practical. SBS is not a clear-cut risk, it is a diffuse risk and associated with social conflicts and mass media interests. Different societal interests and different professions are competing with each other to take the upper hand in defining the situation. 2009-06-25
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Family background and young adults' housing situation Cecilia Enström Öst, IBF and Institute for Future Studies, has written a report about the influence of parental wealth on the tenure choice of young adults. Data from three birth-cohorts that entered the housing market during different periods of time suggest that family background has become an important factor in deciding young adults' housing situation. Young adults with parents who are owner occupiers and whose fathers have a university degree are more likely to buy their housing. The results also indicate that growing up with a single parent is a constraint on choice in the housing market. Housing opportunities of young adults may have become a matter of class affiliation. 2009-06-08
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Merchant Communities in the Early Eighteenth Century Göran Rydén, IBF, and Chris Evans, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, have written the chapter, "Contrasting Merchant Communities in the Early Eighteenth Century: Stockholm, Calabar and Charlestown" in Adrian Jarvis and Robert Lee (eds), Trade, Migration and Urban Networks in Port Cities, c. 1640-1940. This essay examines the nature of merchant communities and the trades they conducted in three eighteenth-century ports: Stockholm, Calabar on the Bight of Biafra and Charleston in South Carolina. These ports were brought together in a trading network by a merchant named Graffin Prankard, who was Bristol’s leading iron merchant. Swedish bar iron was imported from Stockholm and then exported from Bristol to West Africa and South Carolina. The article will describe three particular aspects of port life: the role of the state in regulating trade, the importance of ethnic affinity within the merchant class and the relationship of urban merchants to production in the hinterlands of their respective ports. 2009-05-18
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Political Science and Housing Research Bo Bengtsson, IBF, has written the article, "Political Science as the Missing Link in Housing Studies" in Housing, Theory and Society. This article confirms – by analysing the output of leading housing journals – that the academic discipline of political science has a comparatively modest position in the field of housing studies. The author also discusses possible explanations to this situation. He claims both that political theory could make important contributions to housing studies and, inversely, that theories of political science could be developed in interesting directions by being applied to the specific empirical context of housing. 2009-05-11
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Emma Holmqvist, IBF, will defend her doctoral dissertation in social and economic geography, Policy and planning for social and housing mix and decreased housing segregation – A goal without means? on May 8, at 10:00 in the University Main Building, Room IX, Uppsala. Opponent is Associate professor Ann-Cathrine Åquist, Örebro University. >>> See abstract 2009-05-04
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Clusters in urban and regional development Evert Vedung, professor emeritus at IBF and Örjan Sölvell, Stockholm School of Economics, have coauthored the chapter ”Cluster Program Evaluation” in Örjan Solvell (ed.), Clusters: Balancing Evolutionary and Constructive Forces. Clusters, comprising industries, public bodies and university units represent what may be the most important idea in urban and regional development of today. The book describes among other things how the Arjeplog-Arvidsjaur region has grown into a European centre for testing the performance of cars and car components in winter conditions. 2009-04-27
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Housing investment and economic growth 2009-04-15
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Social housing and segregation in Sweden Lena Magnusson Turner, IBF, has written the chapter, "Social housing and market residential segregation: the case of municipal housing companies in Swede" in Kathleen Scanlon and Christine Whitehead (eds), Social Housing in Euroope II. A review of policies and outcomes. This book is a sequel to and builds on Social Housing in Europe, published in 2007. That first book was descriptive, and aimed to give an overview of the social housing sector in nine European countries (Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, England, Sweden, Germany, Hungary and Austria). This second book looks again at social housing in the same nine countries, but it is organised thematically rather than by country. The book raises a lot of interesting questions: How will the current crisis affect social housing? Will the number of poor and vulnerable households increase because of the global economic slowdown? Will it be easier, or more difficult, to create neighbourhood social mix in the new circumstances? And how will the impacts of the financial crisis on social housing vary by country and by city? 2009-04-07
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The effect of grants on local taxes and spending Matz Dahlberg, IBF, have together with Eva Mörk, Jørn Rattsø and Hanna Ågren, written the article "Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending" in Journal of Public Economics. In this paper the researchers make use of a discontinuity in the Swedish grant system in order to estimate the causal effects of general intergovernmental grants on local spending and local tax rates. The federal grants are shifted to more local spending, and not to reduced local tax rates. 2009-03-31
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Mats Franzén, IBF, has together with Sten-Åke Bylund and Kristina Nilsson written the article ”Uppsala as a university city” in Bo Larsson (ed.), Univer-city. The old middle-sized European academic town as framework of the global society of science – challenges and possibilities. Europe has a unique tradition of old university towns. Especially in the smaller and middle-sized cities tradition, cultural heritage, urban environment qualities, human scale and perspicuity have a potential to attract researchers, teachers and students to the universities. What importance do urban environment qualities have in relation to the university and scientific world? How are the issues and problems defined and what kind of planning strategies are developed. In June 2007 representatives from 26 old, smaller and middle-sized European university towns in 16 countries were gathered in Lund, Sweden, to discuss common issues on relations between the town and the university. Together they give an overview of the cities, their history, qualities, possibilities, problems and future perspectives. 2009-03-17
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International travellers: More cosmopolitan, no less local 2009-03-11
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Municipal Housing Companies and its social role in Sweden Lena Magnusson Turner and Bengt Turner, IBF, have written the article "Municipal Housing Companies in Sweden – Social by Default" in Housing, Theory and Society. An important issue in Sweden is the extent to which the public housing sector is a tenure form open to everyone and is on a level playing field with other tenure forms. The issue became more important when the European Union stated that public companies must have a pronounced social role, given their favourable institutional position. This paper reveals that vulnerable families are overrepresented in public housing in Sweden, compared to other tenure forms, especially in metropolitan and other large cities. The share increases with diminishing relative size of the municipal housing stock. This effect is particularly strong for families on social benefit and for immigrant families from poor countries. Although vulnerable families to a large extent are accommodated in the municipal housing sector, there is no separate social policy in public housing companies in Sweden – they seem to be social by default. 2009-02-23
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Relationship between leisure home ownership and health Terry Hartig, IBF, and Urban Fransson, Göteborg University, have written the article "Leisure home ownership, access to nature, and health: a longitudinal study of urban residents in Sweden" in Environment and Planning A. Using longitudinal register data, the researchers have assessed the prospective association between ownership of a leisure home and early retirement for health reasons among 42 588 adults residing in high-density Swedish urban municipalities. The regression analysis revealed that men with a leisure home had lower odds of early retirement for health reasons than men who did not own a leisure home. Women, who owned a leisure home had higher odds of early retirement for health reasons, if they also had higher levels of education and employment income. 2009-01-28
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Owner occupied housing in Beijing Zan Yang, IBF, and Yue Shen, Institute for Real Estate Studies, Tsighua University, Beijing, have written the article "The affordability of owner occupied housing in Beijing" in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. The authors investigate if a family in Beijing with low or medium income can afford a new commercial apartment defined by the minimum social standard according to their income, borrowing ability and current housing wealth. The paper also discusses the implementation of the "Economic Housing Plan" on bridging the housing affordability gap. 2008-12-15
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Benefit levels in Swedish municipalities Matz Dahlberg, IBF, and Karin Edman, CESifo, Germany, have written the article, 'Is there a "race-to-the-bottom" in the setting of welfare benefit levels? Evidence from a policy intervention' in Journal of Public Economics. The researchers investigate if governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighboring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. The results indicate that there exists a "race-to-the-bottom" and the effect is economically as well as statistically significant. If the neighboring municipalities decrease their welfare level, a municipality also decreases its benefit level. 2008-11-03
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Mobility and Technology in the Workplace Per Gustafson, IBF, and Ann Bergman, Karlstad University, have written a chapter "Travel, availability and work-life balance" in Donald Hislop (ed.), Mobility and Technology in the Workplace. This book discusses the implications of the contemporary rapid evolution in mobile technology for workers and business organizations. The different chapters provide a detailed insight into these issues through bringing together an international collection of contemporary studies and analysis and taking a critical perspective towards some of the advertised myths regarding mobile technology usage. 2008-10-15
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Jie Chen, IBF, has together with Qianjin Hao, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, China, written the article "The impacts of distance to CBD on housing prices in Shanghai: a hedonic analysis" in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. It is widely recognized that location is the primary determining factor of housing prices. But it has not been empirically examined to what extent the variation of housing price in Shanghai can be explained by the locational factor. The data cover all new commercial residential housing sold in Shanghai during July 2004 and June 2006. The authors also discuss how the price gradient varies in different directions in Shanghai. 2008-10-03
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Work book on sustainable development in Latvia and Estonia Mats Sundin, IBF, has co-operated with researchers from five countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Germany) in a project that maps out the current planning situation and discusses planning strategies for post-military residential areas with different potentials for a positive development in Latvia and Estonia. The project – Sustainable reintegration of post-soviet military residential areas as a challange and opportunity for regional development – is partially financed by the European Union. The present workbook discusses the reintegration of post-Soviet military residential areas with an aim to reveal the opportunities for sustainable development. 2008-09-15
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Neighborhood income and earnings of adults Roger Andersson, IBF, together with George Galster, Sako Musterd and Timo M. Kauppinen, has written the article "Does neighborhood income mix affect earnings of adults? New evidence from Sweden" in Journal of Urban Economics. The researchers investigate the degree to which neighbourhood income mix relates to subsequent labor incomes of adults and how this relationship varies by gender and employment status. A longitudinal database of all working adults in metropolitan Sweden 1991–1999 is used. Males who are not fully employed appear to be most sensitive to neighbourhood economic mix in all contexts 2008-09-01
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Simulating an ageing population Urban Fransson, Associate Professor in Social and Economic Geography and former researcher at IBF, has written two articles in Anders Klevmarken & Björn Lindgren (eds), Simulating an ageing population. A Microsimulation Approach Applied to Sweden. One article, "Geographical mobility and tenure choice", was written together with Matias Eklöf and the other, "The demand for old age care", with Mårten Lagergren and Daniel Hallberg. About seven years ago a group of researchers from different disciplines started a research project they called "The Old Baby-boomers". The aim was to analyse the future consequences of the ageing population in Sweden and they chose microsimulation as method. 2008-08-25
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Are Sida Evaluations Good Enough? Evert Vedung, IBF, together with Kim Forss, Stein Erik Kruse, Agnes Mwaiselage and Anna Nilsdotter, analysed 34 evaluation reports published in the Sida Evaluations series between 2003 and 2005. The purpose was to find out whether the quality of the evaluations produced by the line departments and the embassies should be considered good enough. The overall answer is that Sida evaluations are by and large not good enough. The study concludes with a series of general recommendations for improvement. 2008-08-15
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Risk and security in home owning and renting Eva Andersson, IBF, has written the report Risk and security in home owning and renting. An interview study in Sweden. The aim of the project was to examine how households and individuals perceive and experience security and insecurity aspects of housing and tenure in relation to their personal lives, socioeconomic position and employment situation. One result was that owning a home is rated as more secure today, whereas renting was regarded as more secure in earlier days. High rents in rented housing together with low interest rates on loans and increased housing equity/wealth form the basis of this change in perceptions among the 30 Swedish interviewees. 2008-08-01
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Neighbourhood Effects and the Welfare State Roger Andersson, IBF has written the article "Neighbourhood Effects and the Welfare State. Towards a European Research Agenda?" in Schmollers Jahrbuch. This paper raises four broad questions related to the neighbourhood effect issue: 1) Is there really a strong relation between housing mix and social mix? 2) How does the social composition of neighbourhoods affect residents' social interaction and behaviour? 3) Are social opportunities of individual residents related to their neighbourhood context? 4) If there is such a relation, to what extent is this produced through local social interaction? The questions 2–4 have been much discussed over the last decade on both sides of the Atlantic. Most researchers hypothesise that neighbourhood effects would be less pronounced in countries like Sweden, but recent empirical studies confirm the existence of neighbourhood effects also in Sweden. 2008-07-28
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Ethnic residential segregation in Göteborg 1995–2000 Åsa Bråmå, IBF, has written the article "Dynamics of ethnic residential segregation in Göteborg, Sweden, 1995–2000" in Population, Space and Place. In this article, a longitudinal, individual-based data-set is used in order to analyse the dynamics, in terms of migration and natural population change, that have reproduced and transformed patterns of segregation in Göteborg, Sweden, between 1995 and 2000. The analysis deals with questions concerning changes in the degree of concentration and dispersal of different minority groups, and the role of the minority enclaves as ports of entry to the local housing market for different groups. The findings have relevance for wider theoretical issues related to the interpretation and explanation of ethnic residential segregation. 2008-07-22
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Does workplace experience enhance political participation? Per Adman, IBF, has written the article "Does Workplace Experience Enhance Political Participation? A Critical Test of a Venerable Hypothesis" in Political Behavior. Several wellknown researchers claim that citizens can develop their democratic skills at the workplace. Per Adman tests the hypothesis with a nationally representative panel survey of the Swedish population and his findings contradict previous empirical research based on cross-sectional data since no impact on political participation was discovered. The study points to the importance of using panel models when investigating the causes of political participation. 2008-06-27
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Immigrants oppotunities and their neighbours Roger Andersson, IBF, together with Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, George Galster, Wayne State University, Detroit and Timo M. Kauppinen, University of Helsinki, has written the article "Are immigrants’ earnings influenced by the characteristics of their neighbours?" in Environment and Planning A. A crucial question is whether immigrants' opportunities are influenced by their neighbours. The article is based on unusually rich longitudinal information about Swedish immigrants during the 1995–2002 period including residence and earnings in the three large Swedish metropolitan areas. 2008-06-04
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Terry Hartig, IBF, together with Tina Bringslimark och Grete Grindal Patil at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway has written the article "Restorative Enrionmental Design: What, When, Where, and for Whom?" in Stephen R. Kellert, Judith Heerwagen and Martin Mador (eds), Biophilic design: the theory, science, and practice of bringing building to life. Biophilic design is an approach to sustainable development that incorporates the positive experience of nature into the design of the built environment. The book serves as a guide to this emerging practice of biophilic design and contains contributions from scientists, designers, and practitioners. 2008-05-23
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The Housing Allowance Benefit Levels and the Swedish 1997 Reform Jie Chen, IBF has written the article "The Effects of Housing Allowance Benefit Levels on Recipient Duration: Evidence from the Swedish 1997 Reform" in Urban Studies. In 1997, the Swedish housing allowance system implemented a drastic reform which substantially affected claimants who were couples with children in terms of their financial incentives to utilise housing allowance benefits. The 1997 reform largely left single-parent claimants unaffected. Jie Chen analyses the impacts of this reform and suggests that the reform led to a sharp increase in the leaving speed of the recipients in the 'couples with children' category. 2008-04-28
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Nordic Urban and Housing Research Seminar The NSBB network will arrange a seminar: Towards sustainability in Urban Transformation, Governance Cultures and Housing Policies. The seminar will tackle contemporary challenges to urban and housing research especially in the Nordic countries. The seminar is arranged by YTK – Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Helsinki University of Technology in September 21–23, 2008, at Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland. 2008-04-22
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Households perceptions' and housing strategies in Europe Eva Andersson, IBF, has written a chapter, "Sweden: To own or to rent?", in Marja Elsinga, Pascal De Decker, Nóra Teller and Janneke Toussaint (eds), Home ownership beyond asset and security. Perceptions of housing related security and insecurity in eight European countries. Changes in housing, welfare policies and labour markets situate households in new roles and relationships. More and more European households are becoming homeowners: mortgage debts increase, but at the same time housing wealth accumulates. Can home ownership be considered a safe haven in a world that becomes more and more insecure? Is home ownership considered an asset that can be released in case of welfare needs? These are questions that lie at the core of this research project. This book reports on perceptions and housing strategies of more than 200 households in eight different countries. 2008-04-04
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Psychological restoration in nature and ecological behaviour? Terry Hartig IBF has, together with Florian G. Kaiser, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and Einar Strumse, Lillehammer University College, Norway, written the article "Psychological restoration in nature as a source of motivation for ecological behaviour" in Environmental Conservation. Cross-sectional survey data from 1413 Norwegian adults were used to assess the relationship between use of natural environments for restoration and ecological behaviour. The results indicate that positive experiences in natural environments may promote ecological behaviour. 2008-03-26
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Swedish Iron in the eighteenth century and business information Göran Rydén, IBF and Chris Evans, University of Glamorgan at South Wales, UK, have written the chapter, "Iron marks as early brand names: Swedish iron in the Atlantic market during the eighteenth century" in Leos Müller and Jari Ojala (eds), Information Flows. New Approaches in the Historical Study of Business Information. This book looks at the role of business information from a long time-perspective (1350-2000), with the aim, not least, of pointing out the continuity and the evolutionary character of the changing use of information. 2008-03-14
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Retirement migration from northern Europe to Spain Per Gustafson, IBF, has written the article "Transnationalism in retirement migration: the case of North European retirees in Spain" in Ethnic and Racial Studies. This paper examines to what extent and in what ways transnationalism is present in another form of migration – retirement migration from northern Europe to Spain. The paper also discusses some implications of these findings for research on transnationalism and on international retirement migration 2008-03-10
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New thesis on neighbourhood politics in South Africa Sara Monaco, IBF will defend her doctoral dissertation, in political science, Neighbourhood Politics in Transition. Residents' Associations and Local Government in Post-Apartheid Cape Town on March 7, at 13.15 in Brusewitzsalen, Department of Government, Uppsala. Opponent is Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. 2008-03-04
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Terry Hartig at IBF has written "Three steps to understanding restorative environments as health resources" in Catharine Ward Thompson's & Penny Travlou's (eds), Open Space: People Space. The chapters in this volume provides insights into people's engagement with the outdoor environment in urban areas, looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people's needs and desires. 2008-02-21
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Vacancy Chains in Stockholm's Housing Market Lena Magnusson Turner, IBF, has written the article "Who Gets What and Why? Vacancy Chains in Stockholm’s Housing Market" in European Journal of Housing Policy. This article focuses on the significance of housing construction for residential mobility and addresses the vital question: who will gain from new construction? It examines whether it is possible to build directly for well-resourced households and hope that it indirectly also supports lower income households. The study is based on a unique longitudinal database that covers the total population in Sweden over the period 2000–20002. 2008-02-11
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IBF Doctoral disputation in Sociology 2008-02-05
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New thesis in Sociology: Lifestyle Changes and 'Green' Technology Thomas Öst, IBF and the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, will defend his doctoral dissertation, Lifestyle Changes and 'Green' Technology. On the Relation between Economic and Ecological Rationality in Environmental Policy on December 7, at 10.15 in University Main Building, Room IX. Opponent is Mikael Klintman, Associate Professor at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University.
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THE VALUE OF INDOOR PLANTS IN WORKPLACE Terry Hartig, IBF, has, together with Tina Bringslimark and Grete Grindal Patil at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, written the article, "Psychological Benefits of Indoor Plants in Workplaces: Putting Experimental Results into Context" in HortScience. The study makes an initial attempt to situate the potential benefits of indoor plants in a broader workplace context. With cross-sectional survey data from 385 Norwegian office workers, the researchers used hierarchical regression analyses to estimate the associations that plants and workplace factors have with perceived stress, sick leave, and productivity. The number of indoor plants had small but statistically reliable associations with sick leave and productivity. 2007-11-14
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BALTIC IRON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Göran Rydén, IBF has together with Chris Evans, University of London, written the book, Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century. The eighteenth century is often viewed as the heroic age of the British iron industry. In fact, the take-up of new technologies was slow. More accurately the eighteenth century was the age of Baltic iron. Swedish and Russian iron surged onto the British market, meeting the demand that British ironmasters could not satisfy. Swedish iron allowed British steel makers and hardware manufactures to dominate Atlantic markets. This development internationalised Swedish history in a radical way. 2007-11-08
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NEIGHBOURHOOD AND EARNINGS 2007-10-29
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POTENTIALS AND PLANNING STRATEGIES OF POST-MILITARY HOUSING AREAS IN THE BALTIC STATES Mats Sundin, IBF, has together with Dorota Wlodarczyk, Inga-Britt Werner och Rolf Johansson at The Royal Institute of Technology, written the report, Potentials and planning strategies for a positive development. A comparative study of post-military housing areas in Marciena, Liepa and Valga. The aim with this study is to map out the current planning situation and discuss planning strategies for post-military residential areas with different potentials for a positive development in Latvia and Estonia. 2007-10-23
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CONSTRUCTION INVESTMENTS IN WESTERN EUROPE Rune Wigren, IBF, and Mats Wilhelmsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, have written the article "Construction investments and economic growth in Western Europe" in Journal of Policy Modeling. The overall conclusion is that public infrastructure policies have an effect on short-run economic growth but only a weak effect in the long run and that residential construction does have a long-run effect on economic growth. 2007-09-14
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COLD SUMMER WEATHER AND THE USE OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS IN SWEDEN Terry Hartig, IBF, has together with Ralph Catalano and Michael Ong, University of California, written the article "Cold summer weather, constrained restoration, and the use of antidepressants in Sweden". The researchers have investigated the relationship between cold summer temperatures and the dispensation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in Sweden. They find that dispensation of SSRIs correlated negatively with monthly mean temperature for July. Nationally aggregated data have been used from 1991 through 1998. 2007-09-10
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Anders Lindbom, IBF, has written the article "Obfuscating Retrenchment: Swedish Welfare Policy in the 1990s" in Journal of Public Policy. Lindbom analyses cutbacks in thirteen Swedish transfer programmes in order to evaluate the argument that explaining welfare retrenchment is a different enterprise from explaining welfare expansion. Pensions are among the least targeted programmes for cuts because pensioners' organisations that emerged as the welfare state matured have gained influence at the cost of unions. 2007-09-03
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Bengt Turner, who died in March 2007, has written the article "Social Housing in Sweden" in Christine Whitehead and Kathleen Scanlon (eds), Social Housing in Europe. The book gives an overview of the social housing sector in Europe. The intention is to identify general patterns and important trajectories that are likely to impact on future policy. This book is made up of a comparative analysis of the trends in nine European countries (Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden). The focus is mainly on western European countries that have some tradition of governments treating housing as an element of social policy. 2007-08-30
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Nils Hertting has been appointed Assistant Professor in Political Science at IBF from August, 2007. In Januari 2004 Nils was awarded Doctor of Social Science degree for his dissertation entitled Games Local Actors Play: Rationality and Frustration in Network Governance and Swedish Neighbourhood Renewal (in Swedish). His research field covers different aspects of local governance and urban democracy and includes theories on network governance, ethnic organizations and political integration. At IBF Nils is currently involved in three ongoing projects: 1) Ethnic Organization and Political Integration in the City together with Bo Bengtsson (IBF) and Gunnar Myrberg (Department of Government, Uppsala University), 2) Who gets the right to the city? Governance, resistance and conflict in public space with Mats Franzén (IBF) and Catharina Thörn, (Göteborg University), and 3) Deepening urban democracy? Functional networks, political equality and local elites with Marianne Danielsson (Department of Government, Uppsala University) and Clarissa Kugelberg (IBF). 2007-08-17
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THREATS FROM CAR TRAFFIC TO THE QUALITY OF URBAN LIFE Terry Hartig has written the article "Congruence and Conflict Between Car Transportation and Psychological Restoration" in Tommy Gärling och Linda Steg (eds), Threats from Car Traffic to the Qualite of Urban Life. Problems Causes, Solutions. The chapters in this book - about Land Public Transport and its contribution to reducing congestion and emissions - are a refereed selection of the best papers initially presented at the 9th International Conference of Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport in Lisbon in 2005. 2007-08-07
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Anders Lindbom, IBF and Bo Rothstein, Göteborg University, have written the article, "La résilience du modèle suédois de welfare dans l’economie mondialisée" in the French journal Revue internationale de politique comparée. Lindbom and Rothstein argue that the Swedish welfare state has proven its resilience to globalization and neo-liberalism. 2007-07-26
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HOUSING MARKET IN 12 WEST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Rune Wigren, IBF and Mats Wilhelmsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, have written the article "Housing Stock and Price Adjustments in 12 West European Countries between 1976 and 1999" in Housing, Theory and Society. The authors analyse the dynamics of the housing markets in 12 West European countries for the period 1976–1999. Among other things – the empirical results indicate that it is, to some degree, possible to consider the European housing market as one market. 2007-07-20
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SYMPOSIUM WITH SWEDISH AND SERBIAN RESEARCHERS Roger Andersson and Mats Franzén, IBF have taken part in a symposium that was arranged in Stockholm, April 21–25, 2004. The aim of the symposium was to gather Swedish and Serbian researchers to discuss the capitals Stockholm and Belgrade, from various angles and with various scientific perspectives. Roger Andersson has written the article "Immigrant Stockholm – Some Reflections on Ethnic Residential Segregation and Urban Policy" and Mats Franzén "Partly Stockholm, the City Synopsis", both published in Sven Gustavsson (ed.), STOCKHOLM – BELGRADE. Proceedings from the Third Swedish-Serbian Symposium in Stockholm, April 21–25, 2004. 2007-07-16
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A COMPARISON OF HOUSEHOLD ATTITUDES IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN Eva Andersson and Bengt Turner, IBF, together with Hannu Ruonavaara and Päivi Naumanen, Department of Sociology, University of Turku, have written the article "Housing, Socio-Economic Security and Risks. A Qualitative Comparison of Household Attitudes in Finland and Sweden" in European Journal of Housing Policy. In household interviews in Sweden and Finland Swedish respondents, in stark contrast to Finnish, see home ownership not safer than renting. This number of the journal is dedicated to the memory of Bengt Turner. 2007-06-21
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Terry Hartig, IBF, has, together with Camilla Kylin and Gunn Johansson, Stockholm University, written the article "The Telework Tradeoff: Stress Mitigation vs. Constrained Restoration" in Applied Psychology. Analysing questionnaire data from 101 full-time Swedish governmental employees whose workplace was relocated to another city, they found that 58 employees performed at least 20 per cent of their ordinary paid work at home. Teleworking was reliably associated with restoration, conditional on gender; of those who teleworked, women reported less, and men more, effective restoration than their counterparts among non-teleworkers. 2007-06-18
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THE CAMPAIGN EFFORTS OF THE SWEDISH RURAL MUNICIPALITIES Thomas Niedomysl, has written the article, "Promoting rural municipalities to attract new residents: An evaluation of the effects", in Geoforum. This paper examines the campaign efforts of the Swedish rural municipalities and addresses the question of whether they have been successful. A case study is carried out in one municipality by way of interviews and detailed descriptive analysis of migration data. The results suggest no general evidence of a positive effect of marketing campaigns on in-migration. 2007-06-13
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SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN BRITAIN, THE NETHERLANDS AND SWEDEN Roger Andersson, IBF, has written the article "Ethnic Residential Segregation and Integration Processes in Sweden" in Karen Schönwälder (ed.) Residential Segregation and the Integration of Immigrants: Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden. The report contains three country studies, which outline key features of ethnic residential segregation and discuss their relevance for the integration of migrants. 2007-06-08
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Terry Hartig, IBF, has together with Agnes E. van den Berg, Wageningen University and Henk Staats, Leiden University, The Netherlands, written the article "Preference for Nature in Urbanized Societies: Stress, Restoration, and the Pursuit of Sustainability" in Journal of Social Issues. The authors discuss how to design communities that balance settlement density with satisfactory access to nature experience as well as research on the following issues: how people tend to believe that nature is restorative; how restoration needs and beliefs shape environmental preferences; how well people actually achieve restoration in urban and natural environments and how contact with nature can promote health. 2007-05-23
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Doctoral disputation 2007-05-07
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New Professors at IBF Göran Rydén has been appointed Professor in Economic History esp. Building and Housing from May 1, 2007. Terry Hartig, Associate Professor in Applied Psychology, has been appointed Adjunct Professor in Environmental Psychology (20 per cent) at the Departments of Plant and Environmental Sciences and Landscape Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway, from January 1, 2007. 2007-05-02
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IBF staff member elected to editorial board of Journal of Enironmental Psychology Terry Hartig has been elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Psychology from January 2007. The journal publishes peer reviewed articles which advance understanding of the relationships between people and their physical surroundings. 2007-04-16
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TOBIN'S TRANSPARENT Q THEORY AND THE SWEDISH HOUSING MARKET Tommy Berger, IBF has together with Lennart Berg, Department of Economics, Uppsala university, written the article "The Q Theory and the Swedish Housing Market – An Empirical Test" in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. The authors argue that major changes in economic policy have resulted in a more market driven demand for housing investment in Sweden. Tobin’s transparent Q theory is the investment theory used. 2007-03-27
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HOUSING WEALTH AND AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION Jie Chen, IBF, has written the article "Re-evaluating the association between housing wealth and aggregate consumption", in Journal of Housing Economics. There is strong statistical evidence that the long run movements of aggregate consumption, disposable income, housing wealth, and financial wealth are tied together. 2007-03-20
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Nils Hertting, IBF, has written the chapter "Mechanisms of governance network formation – a contextual rational choice perspective", p. 43-60 in Jacob Torfing and Eva Sørensen (eds), Theories of Democratic Network Governance. The contributors aims to renew and refocus the political and scholarly debate on governance through networks. 2007-03-12
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Evert Vedung, IBF has written the chapter "Evaluation Research" in the new Handbook of Public Policy. The 18-page article attempts to summarize what public sector evaluation is about. The handbook is edited by Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters and published by Sage Publications. 2007-02-23
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EDITED BOOK ABOUT LANDSCPAPE RESEARCH Terry Hartig, IBF, has toghether with Marcel Hunziker and Matthias Buchecker, Swiss Federal Research Institute, WSL, written the article, "Space and place – two aspects of the human-landscape relationship" in Felix Kienast, Sucharita Ghosh and Otto Wildi (eds), A Changing World: Challenges for Landscape Research. This book identifies among other things emerging fields and new challenges in landscape research and emphasize major contemporary trends in these fields. 2007-02-12
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SECURITY AND INSECURITY ASPECTS OF HOME OWNERSHIP Bengt Turner, IBF and Zan Yang have written two chapters 1) "The social dimension of home ownership: who is getting in and who is staying out?" and 2) "Early retirement and home ownership" in Nick Horsewood and Peter Neuteboom (eds), The Social Limits to Growth – Security and Insecurity Aspects of Home Ownership. The research, on which this books is based, focuses on specific issues, which will give more insight into the security and insecurity aspects of home ownership across Europe and help to understand the relationship between the structural position of home ownership in different European countries. 2007-01-30
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Urban Fransson, IBF, has together with Nathanael T. Lauster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada written the article "Of Marriages and Mortgages: The Second Demographic Transition and the Relationship between Marriage and Homeownership in Sweden" in Housing Studies. Past research has established a positive relationship between transitions to marriage and transitions into ownership. This paper explores – with population statistics from Gävle, Sweden, between 1975 and 1990 – how this relationship is changing. The preferences for ownership unique to marriage are likely to decline and the importance of an extra income, especially for men, is likely to increase. 2007-01-24
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THE IMPACT OF NEIGHBOURHOODS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES Eva Andersson, IBF together with S. V. Subramanian at Harvard School of Public Health, has written the article "Explorations of neighbourhood and educational outcomes for young Swedes" in Urban Studies. The study estimates the impact of neighbourhoods on educational outcome for adolescents in Sweden. Neighbourhood characteristics related to socioeconomic resources and demographic stability are predictors of individual educational outcomes. 2007-01-17
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THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL RESTORATION Terry Hartig, IBF has – together with Henk Staats, Leiden University, The Netherlands – written the article "The need for psychological restoration as a determinant of environmental preferences" in Journal of Environmental Psychology. In an experiment among college students, Terry Hartig and Henk Staats investigated the need for psychological restoration as expressed in preferences between a walk in a forest or in a city center just before a morning lecture (less fatigue condition) and immediately after an afternoon lecture (more fatigue condition). In both conditions, participants reported more favourable attitudes toward a walk in a forest than a walk in a city center, but this difference was larger with the more fatigued.2007-01-12
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SOCIAL MIX POLICIES IN LARGE HOUSING ESTATES Emma Holmqvist, IBF, has written an article together with Ellen Van Beckhoven at Utrecht University and Brechtje Van Boxmeer at University of Barcelona, "Social mix policies in large housing estates: a comparison of the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain". The aim of the article is to describe how the social mix concept is used in post-WWII large housing estates in Europe, areas undergoing significant physical, economic, and social change in the past two decades. Three European countries are compared in the article: the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain. 2007-01-02
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IBF staff member elected to international board of directors Terry Hartig was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Association of Applied Psychology at its quadrennial congress in Athens last July. The IAAP is the oldest worldwide association of scholars and practitioners of the discipline of psychology (founded in 1920). 2006-12-28
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Guest researcher at IBF
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Bengt Turner and Zan Yang, IBF, have written the article "Security of Home Ownership – Using Equity or Benefiting From Low Debt?" in European Journal of Housing Policy. The paper analyses security aspects of home ownership in a European perspective. The conventional view is that homeowners' security is achieved through equity formation in their homes but this life cycle pattern of housing expenditures may change in the future with more debts and lower price increases. 2006-12-14
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WORK-RELATED TRAVEL AMONG MEN AND WOMEN Per Gustafson, IBF, has written the article "Work-related travel, gender and family obligations" in Work, Employment and Society. The results indicate that regardless of family situation, men travel more than women and this largely reflects women's and men's different positions in working life. Cohabiting men travel more than men living alone, but there is no such effect among women. Having young children reduces the travels of women, but not of men. 2006-12-07
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CHINA'S HOUSING PROVIDENT FUND Mattias Burell, IBF, has written the article "Housing Provident Fund: Its Success and Limitations" in Housing Finance International. The article discusses the success and limitations of the Housing Provident Fund (HPF) policy in China. It provides a comparison of people's earnings with prices on the housing market and gives an overview of the beginning and evolution of the HPF policy and its basic principles. It evaluates the usage of HPF with emphasis on individual housing loans. 2006-11-28
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HOUSING TENURE AND EARLY RETIREMENT Terry Hartig and Urban Fransson co-authored an article on "Housing tenure and early retirement for health reasons in Sweden" which was published in the latest issue of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Based on data from over 440.000 adults over 40 who maintained the same place of residence during the 10 years under study, they found that the odds of early retirement for health reasons in 1998–99 varied across different tenure forms, independent of age, education, income, and other control variables. Among men, those living in cooperative ownership had lower odds of early retirement than those living in communal rental housing, but the advantage was small. Among women, those living in privately owned small houses were least likely to take early retirement. 2006-11-08
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EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD EFFECTS Roger Andersson, IBF has written an article together with Sako Musterd, Amsterdam University, "Employment, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Effects: The Case of Sweden", in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. The main question in the article is: does the social composition of the neighbourhood have specific positive or negative effects on the career prospects of those who are living there? The data cover the period 1991-1999 and more that 5.5 million individuals were included in the analyses. 2006-11-02
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PENSION POLITICS IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN Anders Lindbom, IBF and Christoffer Green-Pedersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark, have written the article "Politics within paths: trajectories of Danish and Swedish earnings-related pensions" in Journal of European Social Policy. The article investigates pension politics and earnings-related pension schemes in Denmark and Sweden with a focus on the last two decades. 2006-10-23
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Guest researcher from China Yan Ming, earned her Ph.D. in sociology from New York University, is visiting IBF during October 9–14. She taught various sociology courses including Urban Sociology in American universities. She is currently working as an associate professor in the Institute of Sociology and Center for Social Policy Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China. She has published a book "A Discipline and a Time: Sociology in China" (in Chinese, Qinghua University Press, 2004), and have written reports on housing issues and urban redevelopment for governmental agencies in China. At the present time, she is conducting an ethnographic study in a centrally located community in Beijing where the majority of the residents can be categorized as disadvantaged groups such as the old, the employed, and migrants from rural areas. Housing issues are the top concern along with others as the neighbourhood is undergoing redevelopment for “modernization” in general and for the Olympic games of year 2008 in particular. 2006-10-10
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Per Gustafson, IBF has written the article "Place attachment and mobility" in Norman McIntyre, Daniel Williams, Kevin McHugh (eds) Multiple Dwelling and Tourism: Negotiating Place, Home and Identity. The book focuses mainly on migration or the movement of people and examines multiple dwelling as a societal response to the major influences of increased mobility and tourism. It considers the modern-day meaning of multiple dwelling, how it affects personal identity and the meaning of "home" and its impacts on host communities and landscapes. 2006-10-02
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BREAKING SEGREGATION IN BIG CITIES IN SWEDEN Is it possible to break socioeconomic, ethnical and discriminatory segregation in big cities in Sweden? Roger Andersson at IBF describes and analyzes this aim in an article in Urban Studies: "'Breaking Segregation' – Rhetorical Construct or Effective Policy? The Case of the Metropolitan Development Initiative in Sweden". 2006-08-09
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IMMIGRANT CONCENTRATION AREAS IN SWEDISH CITIES Åsa Bråmå at IBF has written an article, ”'White Flight'. The Production and Reproduction of Immigrant Concentration Areas in Swedish Cities, 1990-2000” in Urban Studies. The article investigates the causes of increased immigrant concentration in Swedish cities during the 1990s. The results show that ”Swedish avoidance”, i.e. low in-migration rates among Swedes, rather than ”Swedish flight”, i.e. high out-migration rates, has been the main driving-force behind the increased segregation. 2006-07-17
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HOUSING ALLOWANCE CLAIMS IN SWEDEN Jie Chen, IBF, has published the article "The Dynamics of Housing Allowance Claims in Sweden, A Discrete Time-Hazard Analysis" in European Journal of Housing Policy. This article examines the dynamics of Swedish housing allowance claims between 1991 and 2002. The paper finds no evidence that the housing allowance system creates dependence on welfare benefits among its recipients.2006-06-07
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NEW THESIS IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Thomas Niedomysl, IBF and Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, will defend his dissertation Migration and Place Attractiveness on May 24, at 10.15 at Gustavianum, Uppsala. Discussant is professor Bertil Vilhelmson, Department of Human and Economic Geography, Göteborg University. 2006-05-19 |
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 Guest Researcher from Vancouver, Canada
Nathanael T. Lauster, assistant professor, School of Social Work and Family Studies, University of British Columbia, is visiting IBF in May 10-17. He has visited IBF before, in Spring 2001. He cooperates with Urban Fransson, in a project about the relationship between marriage and home ownership in Sweden. Past research has established a positive relationship between transitions to marriage and transitions into ownership. But in a study of the population in Gävle between 1975 and 1990 it seems that preferences for ownership unique to marriage decline and the importance of an extra income increases, especially for men. 2006-05-16
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IBF Conference in Beijing In April 22-23, IBF in cooperation with a leading Chinese university, Tsinghua University in Beijing (Institute of Real Estate Studies) arranged a successful conference on the theme "Housing Affordability In China" with special focus on the millions of people who migrate from the countryside to the big cities looking for a better living. Like other new households they are victims of China's lack of housing. New housing is very expensive for all these households without education and with low income and they are not accepted in subsidized housing. The conference has been financed by SIDA through a research project at IBF. The conference was arranged by Zan Yang, Mattias Burell, Jie Chen and Bengt Turner. The proceedings will result in two anthologies foremost with contributions mainly from Chinese researchers. 2006-05-05 |
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DUAL RENTAL SYSTEMS AND UNITARY RENTAL MARKETS IN SWEDEN, THE NETHERLANDS AND SWITZERLAND Jim Kemeny, IBF, has written an article together with Jan Kersloot, Delft Technical University and Philippe Thalmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, "Non-profit Housing Influencing, Leading and Dominating the Unitary Rental Market: Three Case Studies" in Housing Studies. The authors refine the distinction between dual rental systems and unitary rental markets. They also develop the distinction made in previous work between markets in which non-profit providers influence, lead and dominate the market, comparing Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland in three case studies. 2006-04-20
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RESTRUCTURING LARGE HOUSING ESTATES IN EUROPE Three IBF researchers are represented in a book about the restructuring of twenty-nine large-scale housing estates in Northern, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe. Roger Andersson, IBF, and Sako Musterd, Amsterdam University contribute with the chapter "Social mix and social perspectives in post-war housing estates". Åsa Bråmå, IBF, and Roger Andersson, IBF, have written the chapter "Who leaves Sweden's large housing estates?" and Irene Molina, IBF, Christiane Droste, IRS and Francesca Zajczyk, University of Milano Bicocca, are the authors of the chapter "Restructuring large housing estates: does gender matter?" in Ronald van Kempen, Karien Dekke, Stephen Hall and Iván Tosics (eds) Restructuring large housing estates in Europe. 2006-04-07
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HOUSING PRICES AND PROPERTY STOCK A new article, "Co-integration of housing prices and property stock prices: evidence from the Swedish market" by Zan Yang , IBF, has been published in Journal of Property Research. 2006-03-28
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Åsa Bråmå, IBF and Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, will defend her doctoral dissertation, Studies in the Dynamics of Residential Segregetation on March 17, at 10.00 at Gustavianum, Uppsala. Discussant is professor Terje Wessel, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway. 2006-03-13
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GENDER STEREOTYPING IN WORKING LIFE Clarissa Kugelberg, Associate Professor at IBF, investigates the processes of gender stereotyping in the article "Constructing the Deviant Other: Mothering and Fathering at the Workplace", in Gender, Work & Organization . Her discussion derives from an anthropological study of one workplace, where she investigates the construction of motherhood and fatherhood as important elements in the processes of gender stereotyping. 2006-03-01
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New Professors at IBF Mats Franzén will take over Jim Kemeny's post as Professor of Sociology, esp. Housing and Urban Sociology on March 1, 2006. Eva Sandstedt will be appointed Professor of Sociology, esp. Housing and Urban Sociology on the same day. 2006-02-22
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New Thesis in Social and Economic Geography Camilla Palander, IBF and Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, will defend her dissertation Area-based policy to stop segregation. A study of the Swedish metropolitan policy on February 3, at 10.15 at Gustavianum, Uppsala. Discussant is Senior Lecturer Göran Lindberg, Department of Sociology, Lund University. 2006-02-02
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Guest researcher from Amsterdam Professor Sako Musterd - professor of Social Geography at the University of Amsterdam - will visit IBF in January 30 to February 3. His current research activities are in the field of spatial segregation and social exclusion and neighbourhood effect analysis in large metropolitan areas in Europe. The last time he visited IBF was in August 2002. He has co-operated with Roger Andersson, IBF for several years and together they have published a great number of articles in different international journals and books. Their most recent publication is a chapter in the book "Restructuring large housing estates in Europe". 2006-01-30
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NEW ARTICLE IN PAEDIATRIC AND PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY Terry Hartig, IBF, Ralph Catalano, Tim Bruckner, and Michael Ong, Berkeley discusses the association between the Swedish sex ratio and drugs dispensed to woman in the article "Population stress and the Swedish sex ratio" in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. The test is based on Swedish birth data for 276 month beginning January 1974. 2006-01-16
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WILL HOUSING MIX CREATE SOCIAL MIX, AND WILL SOCIAL MIX CREATE SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY? Roger Andersson, IBF and Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, evaluate the question above, in the article ”Housing Mix, Social Mix, and Social Opportunities” in Urban Affairs Review. Will housing mix create social mix, and will social mix create social opportunity? This question is central in American and European urban debates. In Europe, however, there is a big gap between the political debates and actions regarding these issues and empirical research. In an effort to partly fill this gap, the authors critically evaluated the question above, applying a large-scale longitudinal Swedish data set covering the period 1991 to 1999 and available at the individual level for the entire population. The first part of the article reviews the various policies that are used in different European countries. The second part addresses the empirical analysis. 2006-01-09
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Adjunct Professor at IBF Bengt-Owe Birgersson's appointment as adjunct professor of Political Science (20 per cent) at the Institute of Housing and Urban Research and Uppsala University has been extended until the 29th February 2008. 2005-12-29
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Doctoral Disputations Jie Chen, IBF, and Department of Economics, Uppsala university, will defend his doctoral dissertation, Empirical Essays on Housing Allowance, Housing Wealth and Aggregate Consumption on December 17, 2005. Discussant is professor Geoffrey Meen, University of Reading, UK >>>See abstract 2005-12-15
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FROM LANDSCAPE RESEARCH TO LANDSCAPE PLANNING - A NEW ANTHOLOGY Terry Hartig, IBF, has written a chapter together with Henk Staats, Leiden University, The Netherlands: "Linking preference for environments with their restorative quality" in the anthology From Landscape Research to Landscape Planning: Aspects of Integration, Education and Application . Terry has also – together with ten other researchers – written the last chapter in the anthology: "Considerations for future education in integrative landscape research". Editors were Bärbel Tress, Gunther Tress, Gary Fry och Paul Opdam. 2005-12-07
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Ph.lic. Seminar On November 22, Cecilia Enström Öst, IBF and Department of Economics, defended her licentiate's dissertation "Benefit Cuts and Children's Housing Situation. Evidence from the Swedish housing allowance reform". Discussant was professor Peter Englund, Stockholm School of Economics. 2005-11-30
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| NEW RESTATE REPORT ABOUT LARGE HOUSING ESTATES IN STOCKHOLM AND JÖNKÖPING, SWEDEN
Roger Andersson and Emma Holmqvist, IBF have published (together with other researchers) the fourth RESTATE report. Most results presented in this report are based on a survey carried out in four housing area: Tensta and Husby in Stockholm and Råslätt and Öxnehaga in Jönköping. The basic research questions are: Which inhabitants profit from the developments and policies in the estates? Which inhabitants experience disadvantages? 2005-10-14
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EVALUATION OF AREA-BASED POLICIES In a new article, Area-based policies: A critical appraisal, Roger Andersson, IBF and Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, discuss if area-based policies should be replaced by domain or sector policies to tackle urban social problems (Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Vol. 96, pp. 377-389). 2005-09-23
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| Doctoral Disputations
Alain Imboden, IBF, and Department of Sociology, Uppsala university, will defend his doctoral dissertation, The Propaganda of Progress, The Case of Swedish Housing Exhibitions on September 30, 2005. >>> See abstract 2005-09-19
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Two IBF researchers have been taking part in the evaluation of the Bo01 Housing Expo area and the Western Harbour in Malmö. In the book Sustainable City of Tomorrow. Bo01 - Experiences of a Swedish Housing Exposition, Eva Sandstedt, IBF, and Eva Dalman contribute with the chapter "Who was the Western Harbour intended for?" and Thomas Öst, IBF, has written the chapter "Sustainable urban district for (un)interested residents?". 2005-09-14
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| GENTRIFICATION IN EUROPEAN CITIES
In a new article in Open House International, "Gentrification - the prospect for European cities?", Lena Magnusson debates whether conversion of tenure from rent to cooperative ownership might initiate a gentrification process. 2005-09-05
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| NEW ARTICLE IN EUROPEAN
JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY
A new article, "Housing Allowances: Finding a Balance Between Social Justice and Market Incentives" by Bengt Turner and Marja Elsinga, has been published in European Journal of Housing Policy. 2005-08-31
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| HOUSING ALLOWANCE AND HOMEOWNERSHIP
In a new article in Housing Studies - "Housing Allowance and the Recipient's Homeownership: Evidence from A Panel Data Study in Sweden" - Jie Chen and Cecilia Enström Öst investigate if housing allowance affects recipients' tenure choice in Sweden. 2005-08-22
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| HOUSING POLICY IN SWEDEN
AND NORWAY
Bo Bengtsson, IBF and Erling Annaniassen, NOVA, Norway have written an article in the journal PLAN about the history of housing policy in Sweden and Norway during the last 100 years: "Housing policy with different solutions". 2005-08-05
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| RESEARCH REPORT ABOUT TRAVEL
ACTIVITY AMONG SWEDES
The purpose of the report is to investigate to what extent people travel in order to perform their work tasks, how different categories of workers differ in their travel activity, and for what different purposes they travel. The report is written by Per Gustafson, IBF. 2005-07-25
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ENHR conference in Reykjavík has ended See pictures from the beautiful Iceland. 2005-07-08
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NINE IBF MEMBERS PARTICIPATE IN ENHR CONFERENCE The Conference will take place on the campus of the University of Iceland, Reykjavík from 29th June - 3rd July 2005. The theme of the conference is: Housing in Europe: New Challenges and Innovations in Tomorrow's Cities. 2005-06-28
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| IBF member appointed to Editorial Board
Terry Hartig has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles that link research and practice in architecture, planning and environmental design. 2005-06-15
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NEW ARTICLE IN POPULATION, SPACE AND PLACE A new article, "Tourism and Interregional Migration in Sweden: an Explorative Approach", by Thomas Niedomysl is published in Population, Space and Place. 2005-06-07
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NEW ARTICLE IN ACTA SOCIOLOGICA In a new article in Acta Sociologica, International Migration and National Belonging in the Swedish Debate on Dual Citizenship, Per Gustafson examines different understandings of migration and national belonging in the debate preceding Sweden's full legal acceptance of dual citizenship in 2001. 2005-05-23
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HAMBURG AND STOCKHOLM COMPARED In a new article, New social movements and gentrification in Hamburg and Stockholm: A comparative study, Mats Franzén compares two quarters - Ottensen, Hamburg and Söder, Stockholm. Both quarters are old inner-city, working-class districts and the class composition of the population has changed since the 1960s. The two quarters have developed in different directions apparently because of new social movements. 2005-05-17
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| New Professor at IBF
Bo Bengtsson, previous Senior Lecturer at IBF, has been appointed as Professor of Political Science, esp. housing and urban policy on 1 April 2005. 2005-04-29
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| Professor emeritus Evert Vedung
Professor Evert Vedung retired from IBF on 1 April in the middle of a long, successful and productive scientific career. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1971 at Skytteanum, Uppsala and had a primary affiliation there for many years before joining IBF in 1995 as Professor of Political Science, with an emphasis on housing policy. He has been teaching and conducting research not only in Uppsala but also at Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, Aarhus, Odense, Helsingfors, Wien and Seoul. His best known work is Utvärdering i politik och förvaltning (Public Policy and Program Evaluation), which has been translated into many different languages. In the field of housing and urban policy he has written Statens markpolitik, kommunerna och historiens ironi (State Housing Land Policy, the Municipalities, and the Irony of History) and Storstadspolitikens utvärderingar (together with Nils Hertting, Autumn 2005). As Professor emeritus Evert Vedung will continue to do research and act as a mentor at IBF. He will also occupy a part-time visiting professorship at Mälardalen University College, Eskilstuna. He has additionally been appointed Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen University and he will keep his post as International Reader at Helsinki University. 2005-04-26
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NEW BOOK ABOUT LOCAL ORGANISATION
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The first professor emeritus at IBF Professor Jim Kemeny retired from IBF on 1 February. He can look back on 40 years of successful research and has published five books and more than 50 refereed articles and chapters in books. Several of his publications have contributed substantially to the development of housing sociology: Housing and Social Theory, The Myth of Home Ownership, From Public Housing to the Social Market to mention his most wellknown books. He is also initiator of the journal Housing, Theory and Society. As professor emeritus Jim Kemeny will continue to do research and act as a mentor at IBF. 2005-02-25
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Editorial Consultant for Applied Psychology Terry Hartig has been appointed an editorial consultant for Applied Psychology: An International Review, the journal of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP). The IAAP, founded in 1920, is the oldest worldwide association of scholars and practitioners of psychology. More information on the IAAP is available at http://www.iaapsy.org 2005-02-15
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Guest Researchers Visited IBF 
We are pleased to welcome two guest researchers from Guangdong in southern China, dr. Cai Suisheng (head of Guangdong Real Estate Research Association) and his wife Zeng Hui (teacher at the Guangdong Academy of Public Administration). They are visiting IBF December, 5 to December, 19. Dr. Cai and Mattias Burell are writing an article and the three of them are also planning a workshop that will take place in Beijing in September, 2005. 2004-12-17
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| NEW ANTHOLOGY - THE LANDSCAPE
OF AGEING. HOUSING AND MIGRATION OF THE ELDERLY
A new research report by Urban Fransson (in swedish) introduces a number of studies about the elderly generation and how they have migrated within the past decade. Will there be enough of staff to give the elderly good care and treatment in the future? Will the adult children live close enough to their parents to give them support and help? These are examples of questions that are discussed in the report. 2004-12-01
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NEW ARTICLE IN JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY A new article, The future of social housing in Eastern Europe: Reforms in Latvia and Ukraine, by Sasha Tsenkova and Bengt Turner is published in Journal of Housing Policy, a peer-review journal. 2004-11-26
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NEW BOOK ON SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM IN HOUSING RESEARCH A new book co-authored by IBF Professor Jim Kemeny, together with Keith Jacobs and Tony Manzi on Social Constructionism in Housing Research is being published this month by Ashgate. The book is the latest publication in an ongoing project Constructionist Housing Problems. Jim Kemeny has pioneered the application of social constructionism to housing research, his first scientific article in this area was published 20 years ago in 1984. 2004-11-16
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| Ph.Lic. Seminar
On October 6th Jie Chen, IBF and Department of Economics, defended his licentiate's dissertation "Duration of Housing Allowance Spells in Sweden: A discrete-time hazard analysis. Discussant was associate professor Mats Wilhelmsson, Royal Institute of Technology. 2004-10-22
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| NEW LECTURER AT IBF Irene Molina is a new lecturer at IBF. Her special orientation is directed to issues related to power relations an social (in)equality in urban spaces. 2004-09-22
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| Chapter in an anthology
Clarissa Kugelberg contributes to the anthology Youth around The Baltic Sea: Sharing Differences - Discovering Common Grounds? with the chapter "Job first, Family later: Swedes´ Discourses on Their Future". Editors of the book are V. Henze, V. Maier-Wörtz and H. Vogt. (Örebro: Örebro University, University library) 2004-09-15
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| NEW ARTICLE IN JOURNAL OF
HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
A new article, The first years as independent actors in the housing market: Young households in a Swedish municipality, by Marianne Abramsson, Urban Fransson and Lars-Erik Borgegård is published in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, a peer review journal. 2004-08-23
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Ph.D. student at IBF as guest researcher at Glasgow University >>> Read Jie Chen's impressions as guest researcher at the Department of Urban Studies. 2004-08-17
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IBF member elected to "Advisory Committee" Lena Magnusson has joined the Advisory Committee of the European Journal of Housing Policy. The term of office is three years. The journal aims to be the leading forum for the critical analysis of housing policy. 2004-08-09 |
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Chapter in a new book A chapter, "Sweden: high-rise housing in a low-density country", by Lars-Erik Borgegård and Jim Kemeny is published in R. Turkington, R. van Kempen and F. Wassenberg (eds) High-rise housing in Europe: current trends and future prospects. >>> See "pre-publication draft" 2004-08-03
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| ENHR Conference has Ended
See pictures from the conference in Cambridge. 2004-07-21
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Susan Saegert and Gary Winkel from City University of New York Graduate Center have been in Gävle for a month and will return to the US after their participation at a conference in Vienna. 2004-07-02
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FOURTEEN IBF MEMBERS PARTICIPATE IN ENHR CONFERENCE The Conference will be held at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, England from June 30 to July 6, 2004. The theme of the conference is Housing: Growth and Regeneration. Over 360 abstracts have been accepted for the conference, and papers will be presented in 27 workshops. 2004-06-28
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NEW ARTICLE IN URBAN STUDIES 2004-06-18
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Annika Almqvist had her Doctoral Disputation in Sociology defending her dissertation "The dream of a house of one's own: from housing needs to life-project", on May 25. 2004-05-26
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THESIS IN STUDIES IN MORTGAGE PRICING AND FINANCE THEORY
2004-05-18
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| Doctoral Disputations
Stefan Toll, IBF and Department of Economics, will have his Doctoral Disputation in Economics defending his dissertation "Studies in Mortgage Pricing and Finance Theory", on May 17, 2004. Annika Almqvist, IBF and Department of Sociology, will have her Doctoral Disputation in Sociology defending her dissertation "The dream of a house of one's own: from housing needs to life-project", on May 25, 2004. Annika´s dissertation is in Swedish. Copies may be requested from the departments. 2004-05-04
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Book translated to Ukrainian Evert Vedung´s book Public Policy and Program Evaluation (revised version) has been translated into Ukrainian and published in Kiyev. It will be used as textbook in the Academy of Public Administration of Ukraine in Kiyev, Lvov, Odessa, Khar´kov, and Dnepropetrovsk. The book has also been translated into English, Spanish, German, and Korean. A translation into Chinese is on its way.
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| Plenary speech, January 21, 1415-1515, by Hugo Priemus.
Professor Hugo Priemus will deliver a plenary address on Changing Urban Housing Markets in Advanced Economies. Venue: Rådhuset, level 3, Journals´ Library. All cordially welcome. There will be possibilities for questions. Professor Hugo Priemus is Director of the OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies, Delft Technical University. On January 23, upon a suggestion by the IBF, Hugo Priemus will be promoted to doctor honoris causa at Uppsala University. More on Hugo Priemus, see Tidigare Aktuellt, 2003-10-31. 2004-01-07
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| LECTURING TOUR TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS
Upon invitation by Professor John
M Weinstock, Department of Germanic Languages, IBF´s Evert
Vedung lectured on Swedish environmental policy in Austin. He talked
on the subject why Sweden sometimes does more than she is obligated
to in global regulatory regimes. He also lectured on the secession
of Norway from the union with Sweden in 1905. His visit was made
possible by the recent Swedish
Studies Excellence Endowment at the University of Texas at Austin,
chaired by Mrs Carrin M Patman. 2003-11-28
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CHAPTER IN NEW BOOK ON SOCIAL RENTAL MARKET A book by Tom Startup published by The Social market Foundation includes a chapter on Sweden as a case study, by IBF:s Jim Kemeny and a chapter by another researcher in the European Unitary Rental Markets Project, Philippe Thalmann on Switzerland. 2003-11-14
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| NEW PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE
ON CORPORATISM AND HOUSING REGIMES
A new article (in swedish) by Jim Kemeny in Sociologisk Forskning argues that in countries where decision-making in housing policy is strongly-influenced by market actors, the rental market is more likely to include not-for-profit rental organisations. 2003-10-29
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, GUEST RESEARCHER AT IBF Dr. Sasha Tsenkova, associate professor at the University of Calgary, was recently a guest researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research in Gavle. 2003-10-21
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NEW BOOK - "SPREADING THE 'BURDEN'? A REVIEW OF POLICIES TO DISPERSE ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES" In many western countries politicians, media and the public have percieved the geographic concentration of asylum seekers as a problem, and have demanded that the 'burden' be spread more evenly. Roger Andersson at IBF is co-author of a newly published book which outlines the expressed rationale for dispersal policies, reviews how such policies have been implemented in the UK, Netherlands and Sweden, identifies good practice and challenges the need for dispersal. 2003-10-20
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The Swedish Research Council-funded Area Group in Environmental Psychology held its annual meeting in Gävle on October 6-7, 2003. 2003-10-10
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| NEW PEER-REVIEWED
ARTICLES ON THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSING PROBLEMS
Two new articles by Jim Kemeny, one in Housing Studies and the other in Policy and Politics have been recently published on the way housing problems are understood, defined and specified in the policy-making process. The construction of social problems is a social science approach to the study of social problems that had been developed in the 1960s but that is only since the late 1990s beginning to be applied to the study of housing problems. 2003-10-08
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Chris Allen from Sheffield Hallam University visited IBF for the month of August. During his stay he has mainly worked on developing ideas for a new book. 2003-08-29
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| Australian professor visited IBF
Professor Joe Flood from University of Canberra has recently visited IBF. A few words from professor Flood: "I visited the IBF in Gävle for the month of June, taking up a long standing invitation from Bengt Turner. There I worked mostly with Stefan Toll on the rather difficult mathematics of optimal lifecycle consumption and reverse mortgages, on a comparative study of asset management coordinated by Delft University, and on my current major interest, the impacts of neoliberalism on global housing policy". 2003-07-17
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We are pleased to welcome professor John Clapp, from the USA, who is presently visiting the institute. Professor Clapp is currently involved in developing and producing house price indices for cities in Connecticut and the US. 2002-10-16 |
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The contract for a new EU-funded project, which will run for three years, has recently been signed. The focus of the project is the restructuring of large-scale housing estates in european cities. The Institute for Housing & Urban Research is one of twelve partners working with the project. Prof. Roger Andersson will function as a senior researcher, supervising the research in Stockholm. 2002-09-13
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Sule Özuekren is a guest researcher at IBF, from August 14th until August 30th. She will work together with Lars-Erik Borgegård, Roger Andersson and Lena Magnusson on residential patterns of immigrants in Sweden with particular reference to immigrants from Turkey. 2002-08-19 |
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New Professor at IBF
New Professor at IBF
Doctoral disputation in Social and Economic Geography
Henk Staats from Centre for Energy and Environmental Research, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, visited IBF in June 2008. Henk has together with Terry Hartig, IBF, worked for many years on topics related to restorative environments, which are those places in everyday life that people go to for winding down and renewing energy and mental capacities they need to meet their everyday demands. Numerous experimental studies have found that common urban outdoor spaces do not help stressed and fatigued people to restore their depleted resources as fast and completely as available natural environments. Researchers interested in restorative environments have however more recently been emphasizing that urban residents have a wide range of opportunities available for restorative experiences in their residential context. Henk Staats has been studying those opportunities during his visit, working with Terry Hartig to analyze and report experimental data from the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA.
New professor in Economics at IBF
Danish Guest Ph.D. Student at IBF
New Assistant Professor in Political Science
Maarten van Ham, Director of research at the 
Ayse Pamuk, a tenured associate professor of urban studies at San Francisco State University visits IBF during September-October. She is the author of 
IBF RESEARCHERS EVALUATE SUSTAINABILITY
