PARTNERS AND MANAGEMENT
The centre consists of four partners and is led by a board of directors. Representatives from each of the three institutions oversee the daily management of the centre.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Niels Elers Koch, Professor, Managing Director, Forest & Landscape Denmark, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark (chairman).
Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen, Professor, Architect MAA, Managing Director in the Realdania Foundation.
Kirsten Vintersborg, Architect MAA, Head of Department, The Danish Ministry of the Environment, Spatial Planning Department, which is responsible for urban and municipal planning on the national level.
Dr Inger-Lise Saglie, Researcher, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR).
Professor Eric Clark, Lund University.
The latter two persons are selected to ensure the representation of both the social sciences/geography and architecture and planning, as well as both research from within the public sector and universities.

DAILY MANAGEMENT
Niels Albertsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA).
Hans Thor Andersen, Associate Professor, The Institute of Geography, The University of Copenhagen.
Gertrud Jørgensen, Head of Department, Forest & Landscape Denmark, The University of Copenhagen. Forest & Landscape is responsible for the centre and the centre management.

THE PARTNERS
The Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen
The Institute of Geography and Geology teaches and conducts research pertaining to natural geography (soil, landscape forms and climatic conditions) and elements of cultural geography (agriculture, ecology, urban and regional geography etc.).
Traditionally, the mainstay themes in the research have been economic geography/regional geography, social geography and physical planning. In recent years, this has been supplemented with increased work with globalisation and the transformation of economic and social conditions, as well as detailed studies of urban policy as a development of planning studies.
Contact:
Hans Thor Andersen
Øster Voldgade 10
DK-1350 Copenhagen K.
Tel. +45 3532 2568
hta@geo.ku.dk

Forest & Landscape Denmark, The University of Copenhagen, The Department of Urban and Landscape Studies
The Centre works with research and teaching relating to forestry, landscape, and physical planning, including urban development and urban planning. Two divisions are relevant for the Centre for Strategic Urban Research: Parks and Urban Landscapes, and Urban and Landscape studies, both of which have participation from former public sector research and from the university milieu.
Contact:
Head of Department Gertrud Jørgensen
Rolighedsvej 23
DK-1870 Frederiksberg C
Tel. +45 3533 1828
gej@life.ku.dk

Department of Landscape and Urbanism, Aarhus School of Architecture
Since the mid-1970s, urban research has been conducted at the Aarhus School of Architecture. This research has primarily consisted of urban and regional planning, urban housing and urban sociological themes, and until the mid-1990s, it was primarily attended to in the form of isolated, individual projects. Since 1988, an education in urban research has been offered, and this research activity has been systematized to a greater extent, first via the establishment of a research group with a shared thematic framework regarding »the modern city«, thereafter through the establishment of two major research projects, the Welfare City Project (Projekt Velfærdsbyen) and
Forstadsprojektet (from 1997).
In 2003, the Department of Landscape and Urbanism was established in order to carry out architectural and multidisciplinary research, development work, and provide teaching regarding the development of cities and landscapes.
Contact:
Niels Albertsen
Nørreport 20
DK-8000 Århus C.
Tel. +45 8936 0000
niels.albertsen@aarch.dk

THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
The Scientific Advisory Board advises the Board of Directors regarding the scientific content of the projects.
The Scientific Advisory Board is international and consists of four prominent researchers who are to meet three times in the course of the programme period and monitor the enterprise and content of the projects, either through seminar-like meetings with the project leaders, or through the direct guidance of individual projects.
The members are appointed in a manner ensuring geographical and disciplinary distribution and with emphasis on persons with experience in, and interest for, multidisciplinary research.
Proposed members of the Scientific Advisory Board:

Francois Ascher: educated in economics and urbanism. Professor at l'Institut français d'urbanisme (Université Paris VIII). Leader of DEA "Mutations urbaines et gouvernance territoriale" and member the "Théorie des mutations urbaines" laboratory. President for Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement, Paris. Publications regarding the “metapolis” and new tendencies in urban development.
http://www.enpc.fr/edve/formation/enseignants/ascher.htm

Ash Amin: Professor in geography, University of Durham and has been a visiting professor at a number of universities, including the University of Copenhagen. His research concerns the spatial aspects of economic, political and cultural changes, and he has a particularly comprehensive publications list.
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/information/staff/amin.html

Karl Otto Ellefsen: Architect, Professor in Urbanism and Chancellor for the Oslo School of Architecture. Karl Otto covers an architectural theory angle. His work stretches from urban design and territorial identity to the characteristics of urban regional development.
http://www.arkitektur.no/page/Nyheter/Hovednyheter/8352/53381.html

Dr. Axel Priebs: Geographer, Head of Planning and Environment in Hannover. Has previously conducted research in Flensburg and Copenhagen, now an adjunct professor at the universities in Kiel and Hannover.
http://univis.uni-kiel.de/prg?show=info&key=892/persons/2005s:mathe/geogra_1/zentr/priebs