Peter is a Danish architect who wrote a PhD on shopping centres and has studied Arctic cities for over a decade. He is Professor in Urban Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Here, he directs research at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, co-directs the Executive Master in Urbanism programme and teaches urban planning history. He researches Arctic urbanism, urban design practices, strategic design for placemaking, and sustainable urban planning. The geographic scope of his research on the urban Arctic includes northern Scandinavia, Svalbard, Greenland, Canada, Iceland, and Russia. In 2021, he published Making the Arctic City – The History and Future of Circumpolar Urbanism (Bloomsbury). See an updated list of his publications here: aho.no/en/aho-staff/peterhem.
Readings Favorite
Here are some of the critical/Arctic books that I keep returning to:
- Sheppard, L., & White, M. (2017). Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory. Actar.
- Robinson, J. (2006). Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development. Routledge.
- Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Brenner, N. (Ed.). (2014). Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. Jovis.
If you are into urban studies fiction, I recommend Miéville, C. (2009) The City & the City, Macmillan.
Other Partners Bios and Readings favorites :
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