Moa is no longer working at Nordregio.
Specialised in urban planning and development, the social in sustainability, suburbs (as vision, place and concept) and discourses and storytelling in planning.
Academic qualifications
PhD in Human Geography (Örebro University, Sweden 2009)
MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (Stockholm University, Sweden 2004)
Languages
Swedish
English
Prior positions
Researcher and lecturer at the Division of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Planning and Environment, Stockholm, Sweden (2009-2015)
PhD student at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro university, Sweden (2004-2009)
Research assistant, Nordregio, Stockholm, Sweden (2002-2004)
Moa Tunström‘s spatial story
Space and place
I have been a part of multidisciplinary environments which have shaped both my multidisciplinary identity and my understanding of space and place, and I am really not sure of in what field I belong.
I have, for a few years, been a part of multidisciplinary environments oriented on issues of urban and regional planning and development. This has shaped both my multidisciplinary identity and my understanding of space and place, and I am really not sure of in what field I belong. I am a planning researcher since I am interested in the processes, politics and aesthetics that result in built environment and infrastructure. I am also a social geographer since I see places as constructed not only by the built environment, but by social processes – actions and interactions, memories and narratives, dreams and visions. And finally I am an urban geographer with a particular interest in the suburban, but my interest in planning discourses and discursive constructions of place could also actually be applied in the regional or rural context.
It started in an interest in architecture history and the built environment, something which led to studies in planning and cultural heritage. This made the role of history in the contemporary city and planning become a central issue – for example in ideas about the “traditional” and the “modern” city, preservation, place identity and city marketing. Also, studying planning and human geography, the idea of the city as a built environment was to a degree put in question – the city and the urban are also social practices, plans and politics, images and ideas … This influenced my research, which has been focusing on discourses and narratives in planning documents, visions and debates.
How are concepts such as urban, suburban, sustainability, attractiveness, livability or public space made meaningful in today’s planning and development – and how does this influence the built environment, political measures, images of places and power distribution?
Related Research Projects
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Finished
- Planning for urban social sustainability in the Nordic countries (PLUS)
- The compact city of the North – functions, challenges and planning strategies
- White Paper on Nordic Sustainable Cities
- The Impact of Participation: mapping and developing the scope, forms and impacts of the communicative turn in urban planning (TIPTOP)
- Long-term planning for inclusive cities in the Nordic region
- Planning and designing the inclusive smart city
- Housing construction in the market periphery
Related Publications
- Can planning combat segregation and strengthen social sustainability?
- Urban policies for sustainable living and consumption
- Towards sustainable Nordic city-regions
- Segregated cities and planning for social sustainability – a Nordic perspective
- CASUAL – Co-creating Attractive and Sustainable Urban Areas and Lifestyles Synthesis Report
- Planning for sustainable lifestyles: political limitations and possibilities
- Experiments and innovations in ‘soft’ urban planning: urban living labs
- Transit-oriented development and sustainable urban planning
- Stege, trappa eller kub – hur analysera dialoger i stadsplanering?
- The Compact City of the North – functions, challenges and planning strategies
- The right to access the city: Nordic urban planning from a disability perspective
- Overcoming barriers to social inclusion in Nordic cities through policy and planning
- Building affordable homes: Challenges and solutions in the Nordic Region
- Forskning och praktik i samverkan om medborgardeltagande i stadsplanering
- Bringing attention back to the city centre – six Nordic examples
- Nordregio News 4 2016
