Communication / KOF 2024
Here we present a selection of the outreach communication and collaboration activities that are recurring at IBF.
Urban Lab website
For more information about Urban Lab, projects and affiliated researchers, please visit the Urban Lab website.
Bostadsmötet
Bostadsmötet ("Housing Meeting") is IBF:s most important communication and collaboration activity. It takes place in the University Main Building every 18th month. The last meeting was held in May 2023.
Program (in Swedish)
Bostadsmötet 2023 Pdf, 3 MB. (PDF)
Bostadsmötet 2022 Pdf, 2 MB. (PDF)
Bostadsmötet 2019 Pdf, 3 MB. (PDF)
Pictures from Bostadsmötet
IBF:s nyhetsbrev / IBF Newsletter
The IBF Newsletter has been published since 1995 in a printed version. During the Covid pandemia, IBF decided to also distribute the newsletter in a digital format. In December 2023 the last printed version was issued.The digital newsletter currently reaches around 2,000 recipients.
Newsletters for downloading (in Swedish)
Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research
IBF organizes Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research evey year. The lecture is held by an internationally leading scholar in housing and urban research.
With Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research, IBF wishes to make visible and stimulate housing and urban research of the highest quality - locally, nationally and internationally.
Our lecturers
- has substantially contributed to / changed research within the IBF area in a way that has academic relevance beyond the empirical scope
- are both well-established in the field and are conducting strong research
- produces current, challenging and society-relevant research that is of public and broad interest
All Uppsala Lecture lectures are filmed and published at the University's film channel.
Recordings (in English)
Rowland Atkinson
Dark city: London’s super-rich, city politics and the criminal real estate economy
Margaret Kohn
Urban Ideology in the New Gilded Age
Leah Platt Boustan
Streets of gold: The role of geography in immigrant assimilation in the United States
Raquel Rolnik
Urban Warfare – Housing under the empire of finance
Karl Schlögel
How to Read East European Cities- Bringing back space into history
David Harvey
Li Zhang
Battles Over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emerging Publics in Urban China
Edward Glaeser
The Urban Century – An Urban World
Gerry Stoker
Challenging Democratic Myopia: Decentralised decision-making and citizen participation
Sharon Zukin
Beyond authenticity: Local shopping streets in global cities
Loïc Wacquant
Susan J. Smith
The crisis of residential capitalism: a tale of three markets and four visions
No recording available