Håkan Forsell

Håkan Forsell is a researcher in the fields of urban history and urban studies at Stockholms universitet. He has carried out research on property and housing issues, urban planning, and segregation in European cities during the twentieth century. Forsell’s recent field of research is the relationship between education and urbanization ‒ and how the modern city during the last century has been established as a “knowledge society.” Forsell was Research Fellow at IRS Erkner/Berlin and at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.