Causes and consequences of ongoing urbanization

 
 
 

PIs

Voltaire Alvarado Peterson, Universidad de Concepción Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University

 
 

Participants

Felipe Irarrazaval, P. Universidad Católica

Cristóbal Briceño, Universidad de Chile

Kristin Schmidt, Universidad de Concepción

Daniela Ambrosetti, Universidad de Magallanes

Henrik Ernstson, KTH

Pei-Yu Wu, Lund University

Patrik Olsson, Lund University

Siri Haavimb, Stockholm University

Majken Stenberg, Uppsala University

Per-Anders Edin, Uppsala University

Peter Nilsson, Stockholm University

 

Results

The purpose of this workshop was twofold. The first purpose was to present and discuss research that aims at providing a better understanding of the consequences of the ongoing urbanization processes in Sweden and Chile and to discuss policies, such as housing policies, place-based policies, and urban planning, that play important roles for this understanding. The second purpose was to initiate discussions for future research cooperation on how Chile and Sweden tackle problems following in the wake of urbanization.

Topics that were discussed at the workshop covered a rather wide variety of urban- related questions, as given by the titles of the presentations:

- ”Port-ecologies and labour regimes: Notes on examining labour regimes in food and mining ports in Chile”

- ”What’s in a Label? On Neighbourhood Labelling, Stigma and House Prices”

- ”On Gentrification: Renovations of Rental Housing and Socio-Economic Sorting”

- “StressMApp: Developing a smartphone application to understand stress-related cognitive markers and their links with subjective experiences of/exposure to stressors”

- ”Pre-school location, air quality, teachers’ and childrens’ health outcomes”

- “Urban fauna; native scarcity, global introductions and influence upon human and environmental health”

- “Transformation of historical urban images of Punta Arenas. Regress, preserve or progress to success?”

- “The rural and urban centric-crime context. Sweden – Chile”

- ”On perceptions and constructions of crime in urban contexts”

The consensus in the group seemed to have been that all these questions were of importance and highly policy-relevant for both countries, and that a value-added aspect of the workshop was that it brought together researchers from diverse disciplines examining similar questions with different methodological approaches. There were positive and fruitful discussions.