In many countries, cities are expected to stimulate compact city development by the government, while at the same time develop healthier and more social sustainable cities. In Norway, national policy and planning regulation ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself ...

This paper compares how the governance of four agro-met services operating in the same basic area of Maharashtra, India condition the engagement between the users and the providers of the services. The four cases reveal ...

This Special Issue is devoted to Russia’s welfare state during the years of economic stagnation that began in 2013. Twelve experts assess social conditions and reforms in poverty, labor market, pension, housing and education ...

Given the growing superdiversity of European societies, more detailed data on migrant homelessness are needed. Measuring and monitoring the inter sections between migration and homelessness needs a fundamental reflection ...

Denne artikkelen undersøker striden rundt vold i nære relasjoner i Russland og Polen, to europeiske land som har tatt en markant nasjonalkonservativ vending de siste årene. Artikkelen viser hvordan temaet utgjør ett av ...

Dette nummeret av Vardøger inneholder ulike bidrag til forståelsen av europeisk venstreside og den utvikling den er inne i. Nummeret analyserer og drøfter venstresidens utfordringer. Det er grunnlag for å si at venstresiden ...

What can the smart city discourse tell us about contemporary urbanism? This discourse is arguably a key exemplar of the increasingly mobile and networked characteristic of urban policy-making, and can reveal important ...

This article estimates fundamental house prices for Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden over the past 20 years. Fundamental house prices are determined by per capita income, the housing stock per capita, and the real ...

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 ...