Preserving buildings while reducing carbon footprint
Buildings account for 40 per cent of our carbon footprint in Sweden. How do we preserve culturally valuable buildings in a climate-friendly way? Campus Gotland has a research group that specialises in this.
Research to show how cities promote better health
Do cities create or attract individuals with good health? This question will be investigated in an interdisciplinary project funded by a grant of SEK 43 million from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The project is led by Erik Grönqvist, professor at the Department of Medical Sciences.
Urban ponds – oases of biodiversity
A pond with flowering water lilies and shady trees alongside can offer a restful break from everyday stress for anyone sitting down on a park bench next to it. In addition to promoting wellbeing, ponds are important for collecting rainwater. Moreover, they are home to many of the city’s smallest residents. Whole ecosystems are hidden beneath the surface.
Can individual billing reduce water waste?
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource worldwide, and the question of water management is becoming an ever more pressing issue in Sweden as well. Despite this, water is often priced in a way that can lead to overconsumption, particularly in apartment buildings where water costs are included in the rent. Without direct financial incentives to save water, consumption risks being higher than necessary.
New sources of electricity in impoverished communities
Vibrations generated by human activity or natural causes can be converted into green electricity. Magdalena Kuchler, Senior Lecturer in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, and Christian Schiffer, researcher in Geophysics, have been granted SEK 2.7 million by the Swedish Research Council Formas for a research project focusing on this area.
From Alby to academia
It all began when Susanne Urban, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, was asked to write “something about neighbourhoods”. As a newcomer to the department, she didn't dare say no, and her research journey began there and then on neighbourhoods and the effects of neighbourhoods as a common thread through society.
The Housing Barometer – statistics on housing
What are the income and education levels of your neighbours? How big is the difference between different regions in Sweden or neighbourhoods in Swedish municipalities and how has the situation changed over time? The Housing Barometer makes this type of data more accessible – to researchers, politicians and the public.
The Housing Barometer presents complicated statistics in a simple way, with animated data. This image shows disposable annual income in different parts of Stockholm. Image: Housing Barometer
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Research
Institute for Housing and Urban Research
The Institute for Housing and Urban Research is a multidisciplinary research institute that researches housing and urban issues in the broadest sense.
The Institute for Housing and Urban Research
Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
The department conducts research on industrial engineering, construction technology and the built environment. Research topics include the dynamics of innovation processes, entrepreneurship, solar energy in buildings, and urban building energy modelling.
Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Urban Lab
Urban Lab is a multidisciplinary research environment for quantitative studies of issues connected to cities and urbanisation processes. The research covers broad questions: Why do some cities grow while others shrink? Why do some areas within cities have a positive development and others a negative one? How do urbanization and neighborhood affect different outcomes in terms of, for example, economic inequality, individuals' health and children's future? What role does local politics play in local development?
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