Welcome to Cities & Mobilities. My name is Anna Nikolaeva, and I am Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam.
In my research, writing, teaching and public speaking I engage with a variety of themes in urban planning and human geography, and my current priorities are:
1. Gendered mobilities and gender-sensitive planning
2. Intersectional feminist urban planning
3. Politics of knowledge and ignorance in urban planning
4. Intersections between low-carbon and just mobility transitions.
5. Public space and mobility as social infrastructure
This website has the name “Cities and Mobilities” for two reasons. Firstly, mobilities, from a daily walk to international migration, continue to shape cities in numerous ways, – and mobilities are, in their turn, shaped by various trends in urban development and urban governance. Thus, throughout my research career I have focused on mobility as a case study to discuss transitions to sustainability, transformations of urban public space, and impact of smart technology on urban living and urban governance. Secondly, I created this website when I began organising seminar series “Cities & Mobilities” at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, and it looked like a perfect title for both seminar series and the website. In the meantime my expertise expanded and the focus has shifted to the politics of knowledge and ignorance in planning and intersectional feminist planning, with mobilities and public space remaining key empirical anchors of my theoretical work.
Previously I did research and taught at Royal Holloway, University of London and VU University Amsterdam, and was a visiting scholar at City University of New York. I hold PhD degree from Aarhus University, Denmark.
Contact: a.nikolaeva[at]uva.nl
Follow: @_Anna_Nikolaeva
Affiliations:
Dutch Network of Feminist Planners & Geographers / Netwerk van Feministische Planologen & Geografen
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