Focal areas
- Influences of urban built environment on travel and transportation
- Livability and the design of supportive human environments
- Socio-spatial inequalities in contemporary cities
- Driving forces, structures, power dynamics, discourses and actors influencing the kind of urban development taking place
- The role of urban planning in fostering or hampering sustainability
- Normative aspects of the concept of sustainable development (including environmental justice) and how these are articulated and given priority
- Sustainability paradigms (e.g. eco-modernization vs. degrowth) and their implications for urban development and planning
Within these themes, the focus is on environmental, social as well as economic aspects of sustainable development and its implications for urban and regional planning