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  • Annual Report 2019 for CFP published

    Published May 11, 2020

    We are delighted to share with you The Centre for the Future of Places Annual Report 2019.

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  • CFP in research cooperation with UCL

    Published Feb 03, 2020

    "Densification and Housing: a critical investigation of social sustainability and placemaking agendas in Stockholm and London"

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  • Speech by honorary doctor Richard Florida

    Published Jan 31, 2020
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  • Redefining Urbanism for the Future - Interview with Tigran Haas in CIO LOOK

    Published Oct 03, 2019
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  • ”Inkluderande samhällen ger högre ekonomiskt välstånd”

    Richard Florida. Foto: Daria Malysheva.
    Published Aug 12, 2019

    I två uppmärksammade böcker har han diskuterat vad han kallar den kreativa klassens betydelse för innovation och ekonomisk tillväxt i urbana områden. Men i sin senaste bok tar han också upp myntets ba...

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  • Special Issue on "Public Space in the New Urban Agenda: Research into Implementation"

    Published Jul 29, 2019
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  • Professor Hans Westlund appointed to the Swedish Government’s National innovation council

    Published Jun 27, 2019
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  • Iceland Expert Public Space Seminar - The Futures of Public Space and Beyond

    Published May 23, 2019

    One of the Centre's key events in 2019 was a special Pegasus Symposium that featured some of the world's leading experts in the field of urbanism.

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  • Ny bok: Samhällsbyggandet som mysterium

    Published Jan 09, 2019

    The Centre for the Future of Places har nyligen publicerat boken "Samhällsbyggandet som mysterium" av Jesper Meijling och Tigran Haas (red.)

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  • Doctor interview with Kyle Farrell

    Published Jan 07, 2019

    Rapid Urbanization: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Urban Transition in Developing Countries Kyle Farrell wanted to better understand the dynamics underpinning the unprecedented growt...

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  • New publications at the Centre for the Future of Places

    Published Oct 24, 2018

    We are glad to announce that three new books by researchers of the Centre for the Future of Places is coming out in 2018. The paperback edition of the earlier published book "In the Post-urban World" ...

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  • "In the Post-Urban World" won the 2018, Regional Studies Association Best Book Award

    Published Sep 18, 2018

    In the Post-Urban World, Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy, by CFP director Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund has won the 2018, Regional Studies Association Be...

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  • Book release: The Senior City

    Published Sep 05, 2018

    A new anthology The Senior City – The importance of urban and local environment for contentment into old age, has been published by The Centre for the Future of Places.

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  • ACQ Global Award 2018

    Published Aug 08, 2018

    The Centre for the Future of Places is honoured to receive the ACQ Global Awards 2018 in the category of "Europe - Knowledge Center of the Year, Urban Planning/Urban Design" and director Tigran Haas i...

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  • CFP at Almedalen

    Published Jul 05, 2018

    CFP director Tigran Haas and Ethan Kent from PPS participated at several seminars and panel discussions during the Politician`s Week in Almedalen.

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  • Athena City Accolade Award

    Published Jun 18, 2018

    Athena City Accolade is given by the Centre for the Future of Places at KTH to distinguished scholars with substantial body of work that have during the scope of their career expanded, enriched and ad...

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  • The Strip Urbanism & Beyond: Las Vegas from the Inside Out

    Published Jun 12, 2018

    The Athena Talks Series is an annual international conference on a leading urbanism paradigm and its relationship to the phenomenon of Public Places and Urban Spaces. The Athena Talks brings the brigh...

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  • Book release: Tendencies in Urbanism - Contemporary Debates and Essays

    Published May 14, 2018
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  • Cities for All: Gentrification, Public Space, and the Tools of Placemaking

    Published Apr 16, 2018

    The Centre for the Future of Places was a proud sponsor and co-organizer of the "Cities for All" conference that took place on April 12-13 2018 at Färgfabriken in Stockholm.

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  • Chuck Wolfe’s book has been shortlisted for a 2018 UK National Urban Design Award.

    Published Mar 01, 2018

    Our Visiting Scholar Charles R. Wolfe´s 2017 book, Seeing the Better City (Island Press) has the chance to win the UDG Award in London.

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