Department of Geosciences
and Natural Resource Management

Spatial Change and Planning

This multidisciplinary research group focuses on urban and rural development, and spatial planning for urban areas, landscapes and rural districts. Research in the group spans environments from urban public spaces and local landscapes to metropolises and regional landscapes. Our research and teaching aims at improving current knowledge of urban and rural landscapes as well as creating sustainable, livable cities and landscapes.

Projects

Ongoing projects

Metropolitan Copenhagen Green Space – Historical development and Management
Flygtninge som ressource i mindre byer (2016-2018). Finansieret af Trafik-, Bygge- og Boligstyrelsen. Se videnblade.
H2020 URBAN-WASTE – Urban Strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities (2016-2019)
DNMARK research allince on reduction of Nitrogen lossses in the farmed landscape
Cultivating Public Spaces: Urban agriculture as a basis for human flourishing and sustainability transition in Norwegian cities (co-applicant with NMBU) /AT.
Network for Research on Drones. Understanding Drones through Aesthetics.
Spurring INnovations for Forest ECosystem SERvices in Europe (SINCERE)
Waterprotect
Den moderne landsby i en ny rolle: erhvervsudvikling
Danske landskaber mellem fortid og fremtid

PhD projects

Anne Madsbjerg – Urban Gardens as Drivers for Liveability and Community Coherence – a case study addressing the dynamic relationsship between landscape architecture, culture and people
David Qvist Pears – Understanding collaborative landscape governance in agricultural landscapes
Haiyun Xu – Envisioning public participation in landscape corridor planning in China with European experience
Hanne Wiemann Nielsen – Big Cities – ’Quiet’ Places” – tracing material and immaterial qualities of urban space
Lu Sun – Town development in the green belts of metropolitan areas
Nevroz Cinar Özdil – Town development in the green belts of metropolitan areas
Peng Ding – Child-Oriented Urban Regeneration: Exploring the impact of child-oriented city projects on the urban regeneration process, and a comparison study of child-oriented urban policy development between Copenhagen and Rotterdam
Leneisja Jungsberg – Community strategies and local planning approaches in the Arctic
Tongyun Du – Urban regeneration and social networks
Liku Workalemahu – International transformation for leapfrogging to water sesitive city: The case of Addis Ababa
Martha Mkupasi – Planning for the water sensitive city in Dar es Salaam

Completed projects

Completed PhD projects

Mohammed Almanmood – Re-humanising Urban Public Space – Unfolding the influence of socio-cultural norms on the use, experience, and provision of the sidewalk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (completed in 2018)
Mario Torralba Viorreta – Analysis of ecosystem service supply, trade-offs and social-ecological interactions in European wood-pastures (completed in 2018)
Juliane Große – Urban structure and sustainable transport – Exploring the relationship between urban structure and travel behaviour and the role of urban planning in Northern Europe (completed in 2017)
Chunli Zhao – Understanding the preconditions for revitalizing bicycle transport in Beijing, with a reference study from Copenhagen (completed in 2017)
Zhaowu Yu – The cooling effect of urban green infrastructure: From how to where

Publications

Selected publications - for more publications see also the websites of the indvidual researchers

Recent publications

Almahmood, MAM, Schulze, O, Carstensen, TA & Jørgensen, G 2018: The Sidewalk as a Contested Space: Women’s Negotiation of Socio-Spatial Processes of Exclusion in Public Urban Space in Saudi Arabia: The Case of Al Tahlia Street. Planning Practice and Research, bind 32. DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2017.1419652

Andersen, E, Vejre, H, Dalgaard, T, Andersen, PS, Olesen, JE & Christensen, AA 2017: A landscape ecological perspective on the regulation of N, P and organic matter in the Danish agri-environment. Aarhus, Danmark, 26/06/2017 - 28/06/2017, s. 118.

Große, J, Olafsson, AS, Carstensen, TA & Fertner, C 2018: Exploring the role of daily ‘modality styles’ and urban structure in holidays and longer weekend trips: Travel behaviour of urban and peri-urban residents in Greater Copenhagen. Journal of Transport Geography, bind 69, s. 138-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.008

Gulsrud, NM, Hertzog, K & Shears, I 2018: Innovative urban forestry governance in Melbourne?: Investigating “green placemaking” as a nature-based solution. Environmental Research, vol 161, pp. 158-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.11.005

Herslund, LB, Backhaus, A, Fryd, O, Jørgensen, G, Jensen, MB, Mtwangi Limbumba , T, Liu, L, Mguni, P, Mkupasi, M, Workalemahu, L & Yeshitela, K 2018: Conditions and opportunities for green infrastructure – Aiming for green, water-resilient cities in Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam. Landscape and Urban Planning. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.10.008

Nielsen, HW, Jørgensen, G & Braae, EM 2016: Big cities – "quiet Places": tracing relationships between material and immaterial qualities of urban Spaces. SPOOL, bind 3, nr. 1, 2, s. 67-82. DOI: 10.7480/spool.2016.1

Stahlschmidt, P., Swaffield, S., Primdahl, J. & Nellemann, V., 2017: Landscape Analysis. Investigating the Potentials of Space and Place. Routledge, London

Correira, T, Primdahl, J & Pedroli, B 2018: European Landscapes in transition – Implications for Policy and Practise. Cambridge University Press, doi: 10.1017/9781107707566

Riesto, S & Tietjen, A, 2018: Planning with Heritage: A Critical Debate Across Landscape Architecture Practice and Heritage Theory. i Routledge Companion to Landscape Architecture.

Zhao, C, Nielsen, TAS, Olafsson, AS, Carstensen, TA & Fertner, C, 2018: Cycling environmental perception in Beijing – A study of residents' attitudes towards future cycling and car purchasing. Transport Policy, bind 66, s. 96-106. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.02.004

Yu, Z, Xu, s, Zhang, Y, Jørgensen, G, Vejre, H 2018: Strong contributions of local background climate to the cooling effect of urban green vegetation. Scientifc Reports, volume 8, Article number 6798 (2018), doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25296-w

In Danish

Bynære landbrugsområder i Hovedstadsregionen 2014: Udvikling i landbrug, landskab og bebyggelse 1984-2014 / Kyndesen, Mike Brian Johannsen; Vesterager, Jens Peter; Busck, Anne Gravsholt; Primdahl, Jørgen; Vejre, Henrik; Kristensen, Lone Søderkvist; Kristensen, Søren Bech Pilgaard; Richardt, Ann-Sofie; Præstholm, Søren; Fertner, Christian; Winther, Lars; Ogstrup, Susanne; Nissen, Anne Louise. København: Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning, Københavns Universitet, 2016. 90 s.

Evaluering af digital borgerinddragelse af socialt udsatte / Carstensen, Trine Agervig; Lund, Dorthe Hedensted; Skov-Petersen, Hans; Sundbøl, Christine M.B. Frederiksberg, 2017. 30 s.

Udvikling i Agerlandet 1954-2025: Kortlægning af Markstørrelse, markveje og småbiotoper / Caspersen, Ole H.; Karlsson Nyed, Patrik. 1 udg. Frederiksberg, 2017. 67 s.

Hovedstaden 2030: Fremtidens udfordringer for planlægning i hovedstadsområdet / Jørgensen, Gertrud; Vejre, Henrik; Caspersen, Ole Hjorth; Sehested, Karina ; Winther, Lars; Højgaard Jensen, Ellen (Redaktør). Frederiksberg: Dansk Byplanlaboratorium, 2017. 59 s.

Dialogbaseret Planlægning i det åbne land: Lone S. Kristensen, Jørgen Primdahl og Henrik Vejre, Bogværket 2015 245 s.

Mødet mellem krop og horisont - En kystpark mellem Kalveboderne og Øretaden: Sted, Sanser, Arkitektur. Håndværk og æstetik i landskabsarkitektur - Studio 2017 / Munck Petersen, Rikke (Redaktør); Kjær, Emilie Kjeldsen (Redaktør). 1 udg. Frederiksberg, 2017. 186 s.

Dansk landdistriktspolitik i nyere tid : en længere historie kort fortalt / Tanvig, Hanne Wittorff; Jankovic, Noa. København : Institut for Geovidenskab og Naturforvaltning, Københavns Universitet, 2017. 32 s.

Den grønne metropol : Natur- og rekreative områder i hovedstadsmetropolen efter 1900 / Christiansen, Caspar (Redaktør); Bro, Henning (Redaktør); Damgaard, Peter (Redaktør); Hollensen, Lisbeth (Redaktør); Monfared, Darius (Redaktør); Skjøt-Pedersen, Lise (Redaktør); Tønsberg, Jeppe (Redaktør); Vejre, Henrik (Redaktør); Wiil , Ann-Sofie (Redaktør).Frydenlund Academic, 2017. 816 s.

Demokrati og diktatur i nationalparkerne – om central styring versus lokal forankring i planlægningen / Primdahl, J. 2018, ‘, i Moderne Naturforvaltning i Vadehavet./ Lorange, T. (red.), , temahæfte 9, Nationalpark Vadehavet, s. 4-9.

Staff

Members of the research group

Lone Søderkvist Kristensen, Associate professor
Andreas Aagaard Christensen, Postdoc
Anne Tietjen, Associate professor
Anton Stahl Olafsson, Associate professor
Christian Fertner, Associate professor
Erling Andersen, Senior researcher
Gertrud Jørgensen, Professor
Hanne Wittorf Tanvig, Senior advisor
Henrik Vejre, Professor with special responsibilities
Jørgen Primdahl, Professor
Lise Byskov Herslund, Associate professor
Mohammed Abdulrahman M Almahmood, Postdoc
Natalie Marie Gulsrud, Assistant professor
Ole Hjort Caspersen, Senior researcher
Peter Stubkjær Andersen, Assistant professor
Rikke Munck Petersen, Postdoc
Sandra Gentin, Assistant professor
Trine Agervig Carstensen, Associate professor
Zhaowu Yu, postdoc

PhD students

Other members

Mariann Hedam Fermi-Erichsen, Clerical officer
Kamilla Hansen-Møller, Research academic officer

The group aims to provide an integrated understanding of the urban-rural continuum, comprising cities, peri-urban areas and rural districts. Research conducted in the group build on and integrate perspectives from a broad range of disciplines spanning the social, human and natural sciences, including fields such as design research, geography, planning studies, landscape ecology and landscape science. Human’s use and perception of urban and rural landscapes, understanding of places, and place-making play a prominent role in our research.

Methods and collaboration

Methods for spatial analysis such as landscape character assessment, mapping of ecosystem services and landscape functions and urban environment and urban life play a significant role in studies of spatial development and human use of the environment. Other projects deal with management processes such as spatial planning, governance, involvement of citizens, and not least planning innovation. We often work together with other institutions and actors in landscapes and cities.

Specific themes

Specific themes in the research comprise urban and rural lifestyles and their implications for planning, development of new planning tools for rural areas, climate adaptation, governance of urban and regional development, development and transformation of urban and rural districts, the multifunctional role of agriculture and rural landscapes, terrestrial habitat monitoring, land use / land cover studies, land use modeling, remote sensing of terrestrial environments. We run projects in Denmark, Europe and in developing countries.

Teaching

The research group contributes considerably to the study programs B.Sc. in Natural Resource Management, M.Sc. in Nature Management and B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Landscape Architecture and at a lesser scale to other study programs. The research group also contributes to the organization of PhD courses within our research fields.