Socially sustainable housing and urban development – a global challenge

This application for a sabbatical grant, aims to finalize empirical work in Los Angeles, USA, and finish the writing of two scientific books, one in Swedish and one in English.

The topic for the books are the state of the arts in the racialization of the Swedish city in the first case, and in the second book, the focus is international comparisons of urban development.

The books have in common that the thematic is housing and urban development from a perspective of social sustainability and from the bottom up. This means that the main actors of the research are the residents of the contemporaneous cities at stake.

The places included are three: Uppsala, for the first book in Swedish; Santiago de Chile and Los Angeles, plus Uppsala in the case of the second book. The books are based on earlier and current research consisting on ethnographic work in the three cities. Background information and secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative is also used.

The application is aimed to finance a stay at UCLA in the Spring of 2021, at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, under the hosting of Prof. Ananya Roy.