Roskilde is a city 30 km (19 mi) west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of 52,580, the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. It is governed by the administrative council of Roskilde Municipality.
Aalborg University (AAU) is an international public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1974, the university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subjects within humanities, social sciences, information technology, design, engineering, exact sciences, and medicine. The university is also open to international students from the European Union (EU) or from countries from the Nordic Council or outside. The international students stemming from outside the European Union or the Nordic Council are subject to tuition fees.
Aalborg or Ålborg is Denmark's fourth largest urban settlement with a population of 119,862 in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598. As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aalborg had a population of 221,082, making it the third most populous in the country after the municipalities of Copenhagen (capital) and Aarhus. Eurostat and OECD have used a definition for the metropolitan area of Aalborg, which includes all municipalities in the province of North Jutland, with a total population of 594,323 as of 1 July 2022.
John Richard Urry was a British sociologist who served as a professor at Lancaster University. He is noted for work in the fields of the sociology of tourism and mobility.
Finn Kjærsdam is a Danish Land Surveyor and former rector and professor of Urban Planning at Aalborg University (AAU).
A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data. Information gained from that data is used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return, that data is used to improve operations across the city. This includes data collected from citizens, devices, buildings and assets that is processed and analyzed to monitor and manage traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities, urban forestry, water supply networks, waste, criminal investigations, information systems, schools, libraries, hospitals, and other community services. Smart cities are defined as smart both in the ways in which their governments harness technology as well as in how they monitor, analyze, plan, and govern the city. In smart cities, the sharing of data is not limited to the city itself but also includes businesses, citizens and other third parties that can benefit from various uses of that data. Sharing data from different systems and sectors creates opportunities for increased understanding and economic benefits.
East Jutland metropolitan area is a potential metropolitan area in Jutland and Funen, Denmark. Aarhus is the most populated city in the region.
Yehua Dennis Wei is a Chinese-American geographer. He is a professor in the Department of Geography and a senior scholar in the Institute of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah. His research has been funded by the NSF, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, National Geographic Society, Ford Foundation and Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has received awards for research excellence from the NSFC, Association of American Geographers' (AAG) China, Asian and Regional Development and Planning Specialty Groups, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic/Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Development, Spatial Inequality, Sustainable Cities, GIS Spatial Analysis, China, and the United States.
The Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) is a research center sponsored by the University of Southern Denmark and Roskilde University, Denmark.
Svend Brinkmann is a Danish Professor of Psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He serves as a co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies. His research primarily involves philosophical, moral, and methodological issues in psychology and other human and social sciences. In recent years, Brinkmann has been studying the impact of psychiatric diagnoses on individuals and society.
Christian Albrekt Larsen is a Danish professor employed at Aalborg University, where he is involved in comparative welfare studies. He works on a daily basis at the CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE WELFARE STUDIES (CCWS).
Karen Chapple is an American city planning academic and currently holds the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Anette Kolmos is a Danish professor in engineering education and problem-based learning (PBL) at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University.
Anette Borchorst is a Danish professor of both Political Gender Research at CCWS Center for Comparative Welfare Studies and the Center for Labor Market Research (CARMA), the Department of Political Science at Aalborg University. Also, she is Head of the Department of Political Science at Aalborg University.
Anja Jørgensen is a Danish professor of urban sociology at Aalborg University.
The Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), is a research centre at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. It engages in interdisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching concerning human migration. The centre is part of a growing trend in recognizing migration studies as a distinct field of academic research.
Vincent Kaufmann is a Swiss sociologist specialized in mobility studies and urban sociology. He is a professor of sociology at EPFL and the head of the Laboratory of Urban Sociology at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Stephen Graham FBA. is a British scholar of cities and urban life. Since 2010, he has been Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. A qualified urban planner, he has an interdisciplinary background in human geography, urbanism and the sociology of technology. A widely cited author in contemporary urban studies and related fields, Graham’s work explores how cities and urban life are being reshaped by increased movement and mobility, intensifying social inequalities, the widespread application of digital technology, and the widening insecurities that characterise urban life. His most recent work has sought to rethink cities and urban life in fully three-dimensional ways that help to understand their increased vertical reach.
Romeo V. Turcan is a professor at Aalborg University Business School. His research interests include creation and legitimation of new sectors and new organizations; Late-globalization, de-globalization, de-internationalization; Bubbles, collective behavior; High impact international entrepreneurship; and Cross-disciplinary theory building.
Søren Dosenrode-Lynge is a Danish political scientist. Since 1994 Dosenrode has been Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics and Administration at Aalborg University, and was professor of international politics in 2012–2019. Since 2023 he is professor of contemporary history also at Aalborg University.
