Social Urban Transitions

The research program Social Urban Transitions (SUT) investigates how to achieve a transition to sustainable cities, with a focus on cohesion, inequality, diversity, health and well-being.

These aspects are studied in the context of peoples’ daily mobility (and associated activities, experiences, and exposures), as well as their trajectories over the life-course (including migration). In addition, SUT studies what governance model facilitates a transition to sustainable and inclusive cities. Topics addressed in SUT include Healthy Urban Living, Urban Inequalities and Diversities, Social Impacts of Transnational Mobilities and Smart Urban Governance and Social Transitions. Research in SUT is organized in two research themes.

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  Accessibility, public space and health

  This research theme addresses how accessibility depends on urban form and characteristics of the transport system.

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  Transnational mobilities

  Transnational mobilities investigates the consequences flows of people, goods, capital and knowledge for development in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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  Governance of Urban Transitions

  We bring together knowledge from different fields in planning and governance research in order to understand sustainable urban change in cities.