Nils Björling

Senior Lecturer at Urban Design and Planning

Nils Björling is a researcher within the research group Urban and Regional Transformation. The focus for the work is on developing theory and methods to increase the interplay between local and regional planning. The objective is thereby to support the design practice in urban planning to manage challenges caused by an uneven geographical development and to include a broader field of resources and actors in the planning process. A greater plurality is intended to improve the possibility to manage change over time and balance a sustainable development.
In 2016 Nils defended his doctoral thesis, Fragile Urban Landscapes: Planning methods to open spatial lock-ins of urbanisation. The thesis develops three conceptual tools; fragile urban landscape, urban ecologies and key urban projects, aiming to support the design practice in formulating alternative strategies of alteration, to identify a wider spectrum of resources and to identify mechanisms of transformation bridging the gap between planning and implementation. The work is completed in close cooperation with planning practice at both a local and regional level.

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Showing 29 publications

2024

A situated multi-scalar approach for local-regional planning

Nils Björling, Julia Fredriksson
European Journal of Spatial Development. Vol. 21 (4)
Journal article
2024

A situated and projective multi-scalar approach for local-regional planning

Nils Björling, Julia Fredriksson
European Journal of Spatial Development. Vol. 21 (4), p. 1-23
Journal article
2024

Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice

Kristina Grange, Nils Björling, Lina Olsson et al
Urban Studies. Vol. 61 (9), p. 1703-1721
Journal article
2024

Strategic planning for a sustainable local-regional transit-oriented development

Nils Björling, Charlotta Capitao Patrao
Urban, Planning and Transport Research. Vol. 12 (1)
Journal article
2023

Planning for quality of life as the right to spatial production in the rurban void

Nils Björling
Rural quality of life, p. 215-231
Book chapter
2023

Politics of the rurban void

Nils Björling, Malin Rönnblom
Space and Polity. Vol. In Press
Journal article
2022

Beslutsstöd för knäckfrågor – En modell för begreppslig ordning och reda

Kerstin Hemström, Nils Björling
Report - Centre for Management of the Built Environment (CMB)
2021

Hållbara Stationssamhällen – Samskapande samhällsplanering Västra Götalandsregionen

Nils Björling, Charlotta Capitrao Patrao
Report - Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
2021

En social bostadspolitik också för den okände andre

Kristina Grange, Nils Björling
Bostadsmanifest. 22 krav för framtidens hem, p. 25-27
Book chapter
2021

Nyckelprojekt – För en mer strategisk planering

Nils Björling
Report - Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE)
2020

Nyanlända kommer i kläm med otydlig bosättningslag

Kristina Grange, Nils Björling
Göteborgs-Posten (GP), p. 4-4
Newspaper article
2020

Migrationens ojämna geografi : Bosättningslagen ur ett rättviseperspektiv

Kristina Grange, Nils Björling
Report - Mistra Urban Futures
2020

Holistic sustainable material process - Potential in local resources

Ida Röstlund, Nils Björling
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 588 (4)
Paper in proceeding
2020

Clustering and assemblage building

Henrietta Palmer, Erica Righard, Nils Björling et al
Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice: Co-production For sustainablity, p. 89-112
Book chapter
2020

Det svenska planeringssystemet och Älvstadens modeller för stadsutveckling

Nils Björling
Report - Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering (ACE)
2019

Hållbar Platsutveckling - Kunskapsöversikt Västra Götaland

Nils Björling, Björn Ohlén
Report - Mistra Urban Futures
2019

Förändrad relation mellan stad och land/ Changed relationship between city and country

Julia Fredriksson, Nils Björling
Nödvändighetens arkitektur
Book chapter
2019

Platsutveckling – Radikal demokrati eller postpolitisk planering?

Nils Björling
Ett nytt kontrakt för samhällsbyggande, p. 151-176
Book chapter
2018

Relationer mellan stad och land i det regionala stadslandskapet

Nils Björling, Julia Fredriksson
Report - Mistra Urban Futures
2017

Spatial heterogeneity for environmental performance and resilient behavior in energy and transportation systems

Jimeno A. Fonseca, Laura Estévez Mauriz, Claudiu Forgaci et al
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Vol. 62, p. 136-145
Journal article
2017

The livability of spaces: Performance and/or resilience? Reflections on the effects of spatial heterogeneity in transport and energy systems and the implications on urban environmental quality

Laura Estévez Mauriz, Jimeno A. Fonseca, Claudiu Forgaci et al
International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment. Vol. 6 (1), p. 1-8
Journal article
2016

Urban Ecologies and Key Projects: Interconnected Approaches to Unlock Fragile Local-Regional landscapes

Catharina Dyrssen, Nils Björling
Beyond-ism: The landscape of Landscape Urbanism
Paper in proceeding
2016

Key Projects: Combining Potentials from Urban Ecologies. A Swedish Perspective

Nils Björling
Ruralism The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World, p. 179-190
Book chapter
2014

Key urban projects: Local-regional planning tools for fragile urban landscapes

Catharina Dyrssen, Nils Björling
World in Denmark 2014: Nordic encounters. Travelling ideas about open space design and planning
Paper in proceeding
2014

Key Urban Projects: Strategies to Transform Fragile Urban Landscapes

Nils Björling
New Urban Configurations, p. 718-725
Paper in proceeding
2007

Trafikala stadslandskap: Analyser och undersökande arkitektur av aktuella stadsutvecklingsprojekt

Catharina Dyrssen, Bosse Berman, Julia Fredriksson et al
Landskab og landskabsarkitektur, Nordisk Arkitekturforskning, Århus, 19 – 21 april 2007
Paper in proceeding

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Showing 12 research projects

2023–2029

A promised land? Drivers, challenges and opportunities related to the (green) industrialization of Northern Sweden

Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Riksbankens jubileumsfond - The swedish foundation for humanities and social sciences

2023–2027

Just Transitions - Swedish Research School on Governance for Just Urban and Regional Climate Transitions

Kristina Grange Urban Design and Planning
Sara Malm Urban Design and Planning
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Formas

1 publication exists
2022–2023

Samhällsplanering och stationsutveckling

Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Region Västra Götaland

2022–2022

Tillväxt och attraktiv hållbarhet Skövde

Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Fastighetsägarna GFR AB

2020–2020

When Experts Meet: Learning from Histories of Sustainable Transport

Isabelle Doucet Architectural theory and methods
Per Lundin Science, Technology and Society
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Chalmers

2 publications exist
2018–2019

The uneven geography of migration

Henrietta Palmer Urban Design and Planning
Kristina Grange Urban Design and Planning
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Chalmers
Mistra Urban Futures
Skaraborg Municipal Federation
City of Gothenburg
Region Västra Götaland

2 publications exist
2018–2019

Samskapande samhällsplanering för energieffektiva och hållbara stationssamhällen

Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Swedish Energy Agency

1 publication exists
2018–2022

Politicising uneven regional development: Towards socially responsible geographies

Kristina Grange Urban Design and Planning
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Julia Fredriksson Urban Design and Planning
Formas

1 publication exists
2014–2016

Urbana nyckelprojekt, delstudie Mariestad - genomförande FÖP

Catharina Dyrssen Urban Design and Planning
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Mariestads kommun

2014–2015

IDEA League Doctoral School on Urban Systems and Sustainability

Krystyna Pietrzyk Architecture and Civil Engineering
Laura Estévez Mauriz Applied Acoustics
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Björn Malbert Urban Design and Planning
Jörgen Sjöberg Office of the President
Hyekyung Imottesjo Urban Design and Planning
Chalmers

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