On-going research

The researchers at the Centre for Strategic Urban Research work with a large variety of research and projects related to urban areas.

The list below shows the on-going projects. Please feel free to contact the relevant researchers if you would like more information. Contact information is available by clicking on the name of the researchers. 

On-going research
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E-bike commuting related Urban Design. Ph.d-projekt

Junyu Hu

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Bæredygtige Kulturmiljøer
August 2022 - august 2025
Mathilde Kirkegaard, Mogens A. Morgen og Sidse Martens Gudmand-Høyer

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Strategisk byledelse
--> december 2024
Henrik Toft JensenMajken Toftager LarsenJørgen Ole BærenholdtThomas Skou Grindsted og Kathrine Hartmann-Pedersen

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DFC Urban Sustainable Development
2022
Thomas Skou Grindsted

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Urban citizenship-making at a times of crisis
Maj 2021-oktober 2022
Tatiana Fogelman

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Biocities of the future. Industrial Ph.D.
2021-2024
Lotte Nystrup Lund

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Sustainability narratives in urban development – and how they affect the creation of urban space. Industrial Ph.D.
2021-2024
Gunhild Askehave Rassov

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Dark Design - social eksklusion i byens rum
2020-
Ole B. Jensen

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Danske byers tilpasning til havvandsstigning – nye løsningsrum
2020-2023
Gertrud Jørgensen, Ole Fryd, Anna Aslaug Mortensdottir Lund, Tom Nielsen, Katrina Wiberg, Soo Jung Ryu

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Sustainable innovative Mobility Solutions (SIMS)
2019-2023
Katrine Hartmann-Petersen og Thomas Skou Grindsted

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Når Byen Skal Tilpasses Landskab og Klima >< Muligheder og metoder i planlægningspraksis. Industrial Ph.D.
2018-2022
Kristine Cecilie Holten-Andersen

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Simulating Public Life in Space and Time
2018 – 2020
Mohammed Almahmood, Oliver Schulze, Hans Skov-Petersen

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The Museum is Open - fra fremvisningshus til medproducent af byen
2018-2021
Signe Meisner Christensen

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Atmospheres in the Urban Anthropocene
2018-2021
Polina Chebotareva, Tom Nielsen, Niels Albertsen, Stefan Darlan Boris og Morten Daugaard

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Architectural Aesthetics as Catalyst of Social Change. Ph.d-projekt
2016-2019
Polina Chebotareva og Niels Albersen (som supplerende projektvejleder)

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Becoming urban: Critical reflections on the mutual co-production of agency social spaces and power geometries

Ditte Rasmussen Brøgger
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Becoming a passenger: exploring the passenger experience and
airport design. Ph.d.-projekt
2017-2020
Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno Vejledere: Ole B Jensen og Shelley Smith

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Understanding Mobile Embodied Situations. Ph.d.-projekt
2017-2020
Cecilie Breinholm Christensen Vejledere: Ole B Jensen og Shelley Smith

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Værdiskabelse af midlertidige byrumsanvendelser
2016 ->
Anne Gravsholt Busck, Lise Herslund, Trine Agervig Carstensen, Christine Benna Skytt-Larsen og Bettina Lamm

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PLEEC – Planning for Energy Efficient Cities
2013 - 2016
Christian Fertner, Niels Boje Groth, Trine Agervig Carstensen, Juliane Große

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Energy efficient urban planning. Ph.D.-project
2014 - 2017
Juliane Große
Supervisor: Niels Boje Groth og Christian Fertner

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Town development in the green belts of metropolitan areas Ph.D.-project
2014 - 2017
Lu Sun
Supervisor: Gertrud Jørgensen og Christian Fertner

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Bevaring i den store skala – teorier, metoder, strategier
2012 - 2015
Svava Riesto

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Limfjordens Kystlandskaber. Ph.D.-project
April 2014 - April 2017
Jacob Bjerre Mikkelsen

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Climate change adaptation as ressource. Ph.D.-project
Sep. 2013-Aug. 2016
Katrina Wiberg
Supervisor: Niels Albertsen og Tom Nielsen

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Instant Urbanism
2013-
Hans Kiib

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En forstad i forandring - et forslag til kommunikative og fysiske designs for en forstad i provinsen
Sep. 2009-juli 2014
Ditte Bendix Lanng, Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen, Henrik Harder, Ole B. Jensen

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Understanding Human Movement Patterns
2012 - 2015
Søren Zebitz Nielsen

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Energy, territory, place. Ph.d.-projekt
2012-
Susan Carruth 

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Developing place-based potentials: A new approach to strategic spatial planning in Danish remote areas
2012 - 2015
Anne Tietjen

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Stationsbyernes situation, udfordringer og potentialer
May 2012 - Jan. 2013
Niels Boje Groth, Trine Agervig Carstensen, Ole H. Caspersen, Christian Fertner, Lise Byskov Herslund, Bernhard Snizek, Hanne Wittorff Tanvig, Høgni Kalsø Hansen, Lars Winther, Thomas A. Sick Nielsen, Martin W. Esbensen, Niels Albertsen, Thomas Juel Clemmensen, Tom Nielsen, Maja Steen Møller, Boris Brorman Jensen, Stefan Darlan Boris, Kalle Emil Holst Hansen

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Land use scenarios for greater Copenhagen - Modelling the impact of the Fingerplan
Feb. 2011 - June 2011
Christian Fertner, Gertrud Jørgensen, Thomas Sick Nielsen

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Frivillighed og borgerinddragelse i kommunal drift af urbane grønne områder, ph.d.-projekt
Primo 2010 - ultimo 2013 (på barsel: 23. dec. 2011 - efteråret 2012)
Julie Frøik Molin

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Landskabet i enfamiliesboligområder. Ph.d.-projekt om enfamiliesboligområder. Kortlægning og registrering af enfamiliesboligområder med henblik på vurdering af områdernes økologiske betydning
Sep. 2011 - Aug. 2014 
Mette Boye Nielsen

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Strategier og metoder i byomdannelsen i krydsfeltet mellem højkonjunktur og recession, Erhvervs Ph.D.-project
Okt. 2010-Sep. 2013
Anne Juel Andersen

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Urban Green Space, Ph.D.-project
Aug. 2009-Aug 2012
Marianne Rosenbak

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CLIPS - Collaborative innovation in the public sector. Focus on innovation in the planning process; in collaboration with the Copenhagen Business School and the University of Roskilde.
July 2009-Aug. 2012
Karina Sehested, Lone S. Kristensen, Dorthe Hedensted Lund,
http://www.ruc.dk/clips

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Drivers and limits Drivers and limits in the transport sector regarding climate changes with focus on urban development.  In collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark, incl. a Ph.D.-project.
Jan 2009-Dec 2012
Thomas Sick-Nielsen, Julien Grunfelder, Niels Boje Groth

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To cultivate the city. Potentials in landscape architectural strategies for redevelopment of suburbia. Ph.D.-project
Sep. 2009-Sep. 2012
Mads Farsø Rasmussen

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Bikeability-project. The project will investigate, analyze and model cycling behavior and motivation. Focus is on bikes in the urban areas and how the design of the city influences the use of bikes for transport. In collaboration with the University of Sothern Denmark.

Jan 2010- Dec 2013
Hans Skov-Petersen, Thomas Sick Nielsen, Trine Agervig Carstensen, Henrik Harder, Victor Andrade, Ole B Jensen, Gertrud Jørgensen, Bernhard Snizek.
www.bikeability.dk

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Better Urban Spaces
2009 - 
Hans Kiib

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Urban Architecture
2008-
Hans Kiib 

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Sustainable urbanisation in peri-urban areas, ph.d.-project
The project deals with urbanisation of rural areas,  spatial characteristics such as urban sprawl, impacts on sustainability and the efficiency of urban growth management strategies.
Sept. 2008-Dec. 2011
Marts 2008-Marts 2012
Christian Fertner
http://landblend.wordpress.com

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Sustainable planning with a long time frame and across administrative and sectoral borders using plans for nature and water as an example.
The project is based on a case study, which includes all administrative levels and other actors involved. The project seeks to provide recommendations concerning how to overcome the barriers and which new knowledge and tools are needed in order to develop the integrated planning of water and nature.
2008-2011
Søren Beck Pilgaard Kristensen, Anne Gravsholt Busck

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The disciplines of the city and the city without limits
2004-2013
Niels Albertsen

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Models of urban landscapes survey, potentials and development, Ph.d.-project
Aug 2010-July 2013
Martin Odgaard

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The sustainable landscapes of the city; Project maturing
2011-2011
Thomas Juel Clemmensen

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New boundaries
2011-2015
Stefan Darlan Boris

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The city without limits the landscape without limits
2011-2014
Marie Markman

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New in Denmark the East Jutlandic million-inhabitant city
2012-2013
Tom Nielsen, Boris Brorman Jensen

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City on the other end - a survey of popular festivals and culture in Danish planning, Ph.d.-project
2007-Dec 2011
Anne Marie Berg

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The geography of innovation: The effect of distance on the spread of knowledge, Ph.D.-project
Dec 2009-Dec 2012
Teis Hansen

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The Urban Turn, book project
2009-2011
Høgni Kalsø Hansen, Lars Winther

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The Geography of Talents. A project focusing on the geography of talent in Denmark
2008-2011
Høgni Kalsø Hansen, Lars Winther

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Mapping, organising and designing mobilities of the suburb, Ph.D.- project
March 2011-March 2014
Ditte Bendix Lanng

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Mapping everyday geographies of the suburb, Ph.D.-project
Jan 2010-Jan 2013
Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen

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Making daily mobility work - a qualitative analysis of households in Copenhagen, Ph.D.-project
April 2011-April 2014
Simon Wind

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Mobility in the remote areas in Denmark, Ph.D.-project
March 2011-march 2014
Maria Lund Vestergaard