Urban Planning and Mobility Research Group

Research focuses on policy, planning, decision-making and causal relationships within the fields of urban development and mobility. Group members are particularly concerned with analysing power and decision-making in spatial policy and planning; examining the consequences of planning decisions; and developing new approaches to investigating mobilities. The group plays a leading role in Aalborg's Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies (C-MUS).

Research themes include

  • Emerging spaces and practices of governance and power in planning
  • Strategic choices in spatial planning
  • Planning theory, planning methods and the philosophy of science of planning research
  • Environmental and social consequences of urban land use and transport infrastructure interventions
  • Governing mobilities
  • Aeromobilities – sociologies of air travel and the politics of airport development
  • Relations between urban spatial structures and mobility
  • Freight transport, logistics and industrial organization
  • The role of transport models and other quantitative assessment methods in planning and decision-making
  • Decoupling economic growth from environmental consequences: possibilities and limitations within urban development and the housing sector
  • Policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation: possibilities, synergies and constraints

The group engages in dialogue with policy and planning practitioners in Denmark and internationally, aiming to contribute to an improved knowledge base for more efficient, environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.

The group's contribution to teaching is centred on the Masters Programme in Urban Planning and Management.