Per Gunnar Røe

Academic Interests

• Urban studies and urban planning
• Suburbs, suburbanisation and suburbia
• Relationship between mobility (spatial and digital) and urbanism
• Social representations of place
• Relationship between actors in urban development and "city building"
• Use of methods to analyse places and place development
• Urban planning theories and models, included the post modern critique of these

Courses Taught

• SGO2100 Byenes geografi
• SGO3100 By- og regional utvikling
• SGO4201 Urbanisme I - byens strukturer og strømninger
• SGO4202 Urbanisme II - bypolitikk og byplanlegging

Background

• Professor, Department of Sociology an Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, from 2013
• Associate Professor, Department of Sociology an Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, from 2004
• Researcher at Norwegian institute for Urban and Regional Research, 1992-2004 (Holds now a secondary position)
• Dr.Polit., Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Management and Economy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 2001
• Studies in Human Geography, Urban Geography and Qualitative methods, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, one semester 1998
• Cand.Agric. in Regional Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning (current name), University of Life Sciences (current name), 1991

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