There is a fragmented approach to social sustainability in the literature, and this paper aims
to contribute to a better understanding of the meanings and interpretations of that concept …

Scenarios are a useful tool to help think about and visualise the future and, as such, are
utilised by many policymakers and practitioners. Future scenarios have not been used to …

Future scenarios provide challenging, plausible and relevant stories about how the future
could unfold. Urban Futures (UF) research has identified a substantial set (>450) of seemingly …

In recent years, the challenges of urban regeneration and sustainability have been brought
together in discourses concerning the re-shaping of inner-city districts of large cities. …

The development process at the site or building scale is a multiobjective process requiring
the cooperation of many professions and other stakeholders. The addition of multiple …

This thesis explores the overarching topic of the capacity of strategic urban development
decisions and initiatives (including planning initiatives) to positively and powerfully influence …

The research project MAMMUT explores synergies between the processes of urbanization
and sustainable development. In a pilot study, we tested the assumption that the concept of …

Urbanization is an ongoing process all over the globe. People moving from rural to urban
areas are the primary cause of urbanization, and history indicates that this movement of people …

To keep global warming at 2 C, society faces challenges of a totally new magnitude. In
Swedenlike any high-income country, it becomes a powerful driving force in city transformation. …

In the development and growth of cities, certain stages or segments in time are considered
more important than the others. Analysts have identified these points in time as ‘formative …