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Contrasting inclusionary housing initiatives in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway: how the past shapes the present
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Inclusionary housing policies, aiming at creating both affordable housing and mixed neighbourhoods through land use regulation, do not have a long history in Scandinavia. Although Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have traditional ... -
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements
(European Planning Studies;Volume 30, 2022 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-01)Metropolitan governance and planning increasingly are understood as essential in managing urban growth and fostering a sustainable and climate-friendly metropolitan development. Lately, a contractual turn can be observed ... -
Co‐Creation Beyond Humans: The Arts of Multispecies Placemaking
(Urban Planning;Volume 7, Issue 3 (2022): Co-Creation and the City: Arts-Based Methods and Participatory Approaches in Urban Planning, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-09-29)Placemaking, as a form of urban development often focusing on arts‐ and community‐based approaches, is becoming a key site for responding to pressing social and environmental concerns around the development of sustainable ... -
‘Crimea will forever be Russian’: dissenting Norwegian media discourses on Russia’s annexation of Crimea
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The scholarly literature on Russia’s influence in Europe has so far mainly focused on Russia’s influence activities, discussed either as ‘disinformation’ or ‘soft power’. Less attention has been paid to understanding the ... -
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)How can we understand governments’ willingness to make large investments in iconic cultural buildings? What does this trend tell us about governments’ cultural policy interests and priorities? In this article we illuminate ... -
Cultural policy and the politics of display. The establishment of the opera house in Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)How can we understand governments’ willingness to make large investments in iconic cultural buildings? What does this trend tell us about governments’ cultural policy interests and priorities? In this article we illuminate ... -
Delt lederskap i Oslo kommune
(Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift;Årgang 36, nr. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-27)Med innføringen av parlamentarisk styreform i 1986, fikk Oslo kommune delt politisk topplederskap. Det tradisjonsrike ordførervervet ble beholdt, samtidig som byrådslederen inntok en viktig rolle som operativ politisk ... -
Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction: Exploring the linkages
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Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this article we examine the limitations of democratic governance of climate transformation in cities. Advancing the literatures on urban climate governance and climate urbanism, the article asks, how do urban governance ... -
Demographic Profile of Syrians in Norway
(European Studies of Population; Volume 20, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-15)The number and composition of Syrians in Norway changed dramatically from 2011 to 2018. Most notably, the size of the Syrian immigrant population increased from less than 1500 to 27,400 – more than an 18-fold growth. The ... -
Den sprikende kraften i "det grønne skiftet".
(Mediehistorisk tidsskrift;Nr. 34, 2020, Årgang 17, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-05)Sammendrag: Begrepet det grønne skiftet har i løpet av de siste årene vært med å prege samfunnsdebatten. Fra det, ifølge Atekst, stod på trykk i en norsk avis for aller første gang høsten 2013 og fram til sommeren 2020, ... -
Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co-creation from Copenhagen and Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-28)This article has a twofold aim. First, inspired by collaborative governance theory, the article develops an analytical framework built around three ideal co-creation strategies utilized by city governments for building ... -
Developers' price setting behaviour in urban residential redevelopment projects
(Journal of European Real Estate Research;Volume 11, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether developers’ ask lower prices on homes in redevelopment sites than they do on similar units in smaller developments completed over a shorter time span. It also investigates ... -
Dimensions of social cohesion in a transitional society: The case of Ukraine
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Focusing on the local community level, this study draws on representative survey data to examine how Ukrainians perceive social cohesion on the basis of objective and subjective criteria. Building on Chan et al.'s ... -
Do Immigrants’ Preferences for Neighbourhood Qualities Contribute to Segregation? The Case of Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Ethnic residential segregation is often explained with the claim that ‘immigrants don’t want to integrate—they prefer to stick together with co-ethnics’. By contrast, mixed neighbourhoods are seen as crucial for achieving ... -
Do integration requirements undermine egalitarianism?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)For decades, policy makers have expressed concerns about immigration potentially undermining the welfare state. In this chapter, we examine a new income requirement for obtaining permanent residence. We argue that this ... -
Does Participatory Planning Promise Too Much? Global Discourses and the Glass Ceiling of Participation in Urban Malawi
(Planning Theory & Practice;Volume 20, 2019 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-29)This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from below are translated into community mobilization and participatory planning practices in urban Malawi. It shows how limited national and ... -
EE Settlement final report 2017–2021
(SINTEF Fag;77, Research report, 2021)The main objective of EE Settlement project is to provide a tool and guidelines for municipalities, regional and central authorities, as well as for professionals and other actors, for assessing the consequences and impacts ... -
Encouraged but controlled: governance networks in Russian regions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-10)The article examines the role of civil society in Russian governance networks, focusing on power relations between state and non-state actors. The analysis is based on empirical evidence from concrete governance networks ... -
Enhanced local-level willingness and ability to settle refugees: Decentralization and local responses to the refugee crises in Norway
(Journal of Urban Affairs;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-11)The sudden mass influx of asylum-seekers in Europe in 2015, emplaced major stresses on refugee reception systems and challenged central – local migration policymaking. This article explores how this crisis affected ...