Urban Matters Journal - The independent urban journal that is based on topical themes about global urban matters.
Fredrik Torisson
Description: The independent urban journal that is based on topical themes about global urban matters.
This photo essay highlights the perspectives of children in Mjølnerparken, a public housing neighbourhood targeted by interventions for social mix by the Danish state. Due to the ‘ghetto legislation’ of 2018, 60 percent of the residents will be relocated as their apartments are renovated and sold to a private investor. Drawing on the concepts of […]
In the wake of the long summer of migration in 2015, the Swedish government presented a new law to speed up the transfers of refugees with granted permission to stay in the country from state-financed asylum centres to municipal housing. Due to a prolonged affordable housing crisis in many of the larger city-regions and scarce […]
Introduction This paper aims to link the emergence and proliferation of slums in Târgu Mureș, a mid-sized city in central Transylvania, to some of the systemic processes that have shaped the development of European cities in the recent decades. Our argument is that rather than being exceptional and marginal occurrences, slum build-ups and their relationships […]
Urban Matters Journal - The independent urban journal that is based on topical themes about global urban matters.
Fredrik Torisson