Lukas Smas Senior Lecturer, Docent
Contact
Name and title: Lukas SmasSenior Lecturer, Docent
Phone: +468164843
ORCID0000-0002-8620-675X Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Human Geography Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room X 327Svante Arrhenius väg 8
Postal address Kulturgeografiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I'm associate professor in human geography with a focus on urban and regional planning. My research and teaching interests are in the governance of planning; planning systems and processes; relations between policy, plans and places as well as the political and economic geographical conditions for planning. Current research activities include projects on regional planning cultures and urban governance for just climate transformation.
Ongoing reseach projects and related activities
- STARTUP: Sustainable transitions, action research and training in urban perspective. (2025-2028) Horizon Europe
- Regional planning cultures – institutional changes and place-based practices for a sustainable future (2023-2026) Formas.
Previous research and commissioned projects
- Regional planning for sustainable land-use (2023-2024). Region Stockholm.
- Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation (2020-2024) The Research Council of Norway.
- Justification for agreement-based approaches in Nordic spatial planning: towards situational direct democracy? (2018-2022) Academy of Finland.
- Nordic Policy Styles in Urban and Regional Governance (2018-2020) The Swedish Research Council, NOS-HS Workshop grant.
- Framtidens universitetssjukhus. Beslut om Nya Karolinska Solna: del projekt 5 NKS ur ett historiskt, samhälleligt rumsligt och globalt planeringsperspektiv (2018-2020) Stockholms läns landsting.
- Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe (COMPASS) (2016-2018) ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme.
- Co-creating Attractive Urban Areas and Lifestyles: Exploring new forms of inclusive urban governance (2013-2016) JPI Urban Europe/Formas.
- Detecting Territorial Potentials and Challenges (2012-2014) ESPON 2013 Programme.
Academic commissions and editorial appointments
- On the Scientific Council of the City of Stockholm 2024-
- On the editorial board for Nordic Journal for Urban Studies 2020-
- On the editorial board for Europa XXI 2020-
- Swedish representative in Council of Representatives (CoRep) Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2022-2024
- On the advisory board for Centre for Research on Sustainable Societal Transformation (CRS), Karlstad University 2015-