Marco Adelfio

Senior Researcher at Urban Design and Planning

Marco Adelfio is an Urban Planner with a PhD in Geography from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). His research focuses on multi-stakeholder processes and driving forces contributing to compact, mixed-use and socially sustainable urban/suburban development. He has expertise in mixing qualitative and quantitative methods, assessment of best practice transferability and use of geographic information systems for co-production of knowledge. Before moving to Sweden he was teaching urban design and urban planning at different Spanish universities. In the past he also worked in Madrid as an urban planning consultant, dealing with large clients such as the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the National Agency of Spain for Land Development and Endesa - a leading electricity company in Spain and Latin America.

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Showing 29 publications

2022

Validation of an immersed boundary framework for urban flows

Patricia Vanky, Andreas Mark, Marie Haeger-Eugensson et al
Proceedings of the Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow CMFF’22. Vol. 18, p. 237-245
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2022
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Towards a systemic understanding of compact city qualities

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Marco Adelfio, Jenny Stenberg et al
Journal of Urban Design. Vol. 27 (1), p. 130-147
Journal article
2022
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Too much pressure? Driving and restraining forces and pressures relating to the state of connected and autonomous vehicles in cities

Ella Rebalski, Marco Adelfio, Frances Sprei et al
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 13
Journal article
2022
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Translating ‘New Compactism’, circulation of knowledge and local mutations: Copenhagen’s Sydhavn as a case study

Marco Adelfio, Ulises Navarro Aguiar, Christian Fertner et al
International Planning Studies. Vol. 27 (2), p. 173-195
Journal article
2021
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London's King's Cross redevelopment: a compact, resource efficient and 'liveable' global city model for an era of climate emergency?

Marco Adelfio, Iqbal Hamiduddin, Elke Miedema
Urban Research and Practice. Vol. 14 (2), p. 180-200
Journal article
2021

Collaborative Pedagogy for Co-creation and Community Outreach: An Experience from Architectural Education in Social Inclusion Using the Miro Tool

Emilio Da Cruz Brandao, Marco Adelfio, Shea Hagy et al
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Vol. 277, p. 118-126
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2021

Synergies and trade-offs of Barcelona compact city qualities

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Marco Adelfio, Jenny Stenberg et al
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2021
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Linking research, education and citizen codesign: compact cities as social intensification

Jenny Stenberg, Liane Thuvander, Jaan-Henrik Kain et al
SN Social Science. Vol. 1 (10)
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2020
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Greening the Browns: A Bio-Based Land Use Framework for Analysing the Potential of Urban Brownfields in an Urban Circular Economy

Shaswati Chowdhury, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Marco Adelfio et al
Sustainability. Vol. 12 (15)
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2020
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Towards spatial integration of qualitative data for urban transformation – challenges with automated geovisualization of perception of urban places

Liane Thuvander, Fabio Latino, Christoforos Zangelidis et al
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 588 (5)
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2020
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Piloting a collaborative data library of fine-grained data to support knowledge facilitation in architectural courses

Liane Thuvander, Cameron Green, Marco Adelfio et al
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 588 (1.15-1.19)
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2020
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Social Activity in Gothenburg’s Intermediate City: Mapping Third Places through Social Media Data

Marco Adelfio, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Pablo Martí-Ciriquián et al
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Vol. 13 (4), p. 985-1017
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2019
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GISualization: visualized integration of multiple types of data for knowledge co-production

Marco Adelfio, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Jenny Stenberg et al
Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 119 (2), p. 163-184
Journal article
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2019

Social sustainability and new neighbourhoods

Iqbal Hamiduddin, Marco Adelfio
Urban Social Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Practice
Book chapter
2019

Social sustainability and new neighbourhoods: Case studies from Spain and Germany

Iqbal Hamiduddin, Marco Adelfio
Urban Social Sustainability: Theory, Policy and Practicepolicy, p. 171-192
Book chapter
2018
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Disentangling the compact city drivers and pressures: Barcelona as a case study

Marco Adelfio, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Liane Thuvander et al
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 72 (5), p. 287-304
Journal article
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2017

The complex interrelation of community action and planning

Marco Adelfio, Carmen Mendoza Arroyo
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research. Vol. 13 December 2017
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2016

Difusión residencial metropolitana en zonas de frontera con tradición rural-agraria: Cubas de la Sagra (Madrid)

Marco Adelfio
Planur-e. Vol. Invierno 2015 (published in 2016) (6), p. 1-24
Magazine article
2016

Assumed Qualities of Compact Cities: Divergences Between the Global North and the Global South in the Research Discourse

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Jenny Stenberg, Marco Adelfio et al
17th N-AERUS Conference: 2016 Gothenburg (Sweden). Gothenburg, 16-19 November, 2016.
Paper in proceeding
2016
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Socially Sustainable Suburbia: Addressing a Puzzling and Multifaceted Issue

Marco Adelfio
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research. Vol. 13 (13)
Journal article
2015

Procesos de difusión residencial en antiguas capitales comarcales. Colmenar Viejo (Madrid)

Marco Adelfio
Ería - Revista Cuatrimestral de Geografía (97), p. 111-136
Journal article
2014

The future of single-family detached housing

Marco Adelfio
Journal of Urbanism. Vol. 7 (3), p. 217-220
Journal article
2013

The dynamics of metropolitan peripheries: Ongoing changes in residential development in the North-Western corridor of the Madrid region

Marco Adelfio, Manuel Valenzuela
Articulo - Journal of Urban Research
Journal article

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Showing 8 research projects

2021–2026

Att underlätta en ny landsbygd bortom BNP genom ett gemenskapsoperativsystem (COS)

Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
Formas

2020–2023

UEQ - simulations, visualizations and evaluations of future sustainable urban environments

Angela Sasic Kalagasidis Building Technology
Joaquim Tarraso Architecture and Civil Engineering
Gaetano Sardina Fluid Dynamics
Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
Andreas Mark Fluid Dynamics
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2020–2020

Engaging Stakeholders For A Co-created Transition Agenda Towards Connected Autonomous Vehicles As Sustainable Transportation System

Frances Sprei Physical Resource Theory
Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
Daniel Johansson Physical Resource Theory
Ella Rebalski Physical Resource Theory 2
Chalmers

2019–2019

Integration of Qualitative Data - Development of digital method and proof of concept for automated visualization of perception of urban places

Liane Thuvander Architectural theory and methods
Fabio Latino Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
Vasilis Naserentin Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Chalmers

2018–2021

Opportunities for preparing urban contaminated land for bio-based production

Jenny Norrman GeoEngineering
Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
Jaan-Henrik Kain Urban Design and Planning
Yevheniya Volchko GeoEngineering
Shaswati Chowdhury GeoEngineering
Formas

2018–2021

Stitching the city: From micro-data to macro-views

Liane Thuvander Research - Architectural Theory and Method
Monica Billger Architectural theory and methods
Emilio Da Cruz Brandao Urban Design and Planning
Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)

2017–2020

Implementing the compact city: a critical perspective on the transfer of best practice

Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
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2014–2018

Compact Cities? Exploring qualities, drivers and strategies for promoting mixed-use urban development

Jaan-Henrik Kain Urban Design and Planning
Jenny Stenberg Architectural theory and methods
Liane Thuvander Architectural theory and methods
Marco Adelfio Urban Design and Planning
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