Jonny Aspen

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2023). Recording diverse uses of a city’s public spaces. In Franck, Karen & Huang, Te-Sheng (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Urban Public Space: Use, Design, and Management. Routledge. ISSN 9781003104421. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2021). Bruken av byens offentlige rom. In Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær & Millstein, Marianne (Ed.), Demokratiske byrom. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215042763. p. 256–271. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2021). Jakten på et språk om øyeblikket som bylivets erfaringshorisont. In Pløger, John; Førde, Anniken & Sand, Anne-Lene (Ed.), Improvisasjon. Byliv mellom plan og planløshet. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403006. p. 45–63. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Aspen, Jonny (2021). Retten til det digitale skiftet. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 38(1–2), p. 58–72. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2020). Public space use: a classification. In Metha, Vikas & Palazzo, Danilo (Ed.), Companion to Public Space. Routledge. ISSN 9781138549722. p. 221–233. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2019). Byen som erfaring. In Henriksen, Ida Marie & Tjora, Aksel (Ed.), Bysamfunn. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215030050. p. 97–107. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne antologien presenterer en rekke ulike perspektiver og forskningsbaserte innganger til forståelsen av det urbane samfunnet. Kapitlene tar opp temaer som deltakelse, medbestemmelse og demokratiske prosesser i byutvikling, følelsesmessige sider ved bysamfunn, kreativt byliv og uformell næring, historisk identitet og bevaring, turisme og konsum, samt personlige teknologier og idéen om smarte byer. Gjennomgående spørsmål dreier seg om hvordan byene fungerer sosialt i dag og hvordan de kan utvikles for best mulig å understøtte mangfoldige fellesskap. Boka henvender seg til alle som studerer, forsker på, arbeider med eller er interessert i byutvikling, planlegging og samfunnsvitenskap.

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Private-public space in a Nordic context: the Tjuvholmen waterfront development in Oslo. Journal of Urban Design. ISSN 1357-4809. 22(1), p. 116–132. doi: 10.1080/13574809.2016.1240010. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Based primarily on an observational study, this article addresses privately owned and managed public space at the Tjuvholmen waterfront development in Oslo. To date, no other research has been published internationally on external private-public space in a Nordic context. The four factors or processes dealt with are planning and development, design, management, and, in particular, use. The main finding is that Tjuvholmen’s public spaces are characterized by ‘tightness’ and reduced publicness. As such, they share key characteristics with private-public spaces described in the literature from the US and the UK, while they in some other respects also deviate from these.

• Mainsah, Henry; Morrison, Andrew; Aspen, Jonny & Ball, Cheryl (2017). Designing the PhD curriculum in the design disciplines. In Vaughan, Laurene (Eds.), Practice Based Design Research. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474267809. p. 43–52. doi: 10.5040/9781474267830.ch-005. Full text in Research Archive
• Hemmersam, Peter; Morrison, Andrew & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Serendipity and the urban transect walk Reflections on design and cultural mapping in arctic cities. In Kung, Cecile; Lam, Elita & Lee, Yanki (Ed.), Open Design for E-very-thing : Exploring new design purposes. Hong Kong Design Institute and Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. ISSN 9789526000800. p. 570–575. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper presents and discusses the use of serendipity in the design and use of experimental urban mapping tools and practices. We address the issue of error in design processes by exploring the role of serendipity in an experimental cultural mapping activity enabled by an iphone app of our own design. Our approach integrates aspects of chance and arbitrariness, and thus an alternative to dominant urban mapping methodologies. Also, our mapping approach contributes to a critique of digitally based forms of knowledge and functionalist dimension of locative app development and design. The uses of emergent, accidental and vagarious discovery are studied through a series of mapping instantiations to annotate urban transect walks in several Arctic cities. Our experiments show that issues of serendipity are productive in terms of adding new dimensions of creativity to practices of mapping, i.e. they open for new ways of looking, annotating/building knowledge and producing meaning in rapidly evolving Arctic communities. We discuss how the use the mapping approach can be understood in terms of serendipity and, finally, in what ways serendipity operates and informs notions and practices of transdisciplinary, participative and situated urban mapping.

• Hemmersam, Peter; Martin, Nicole Rae; Westvang, Even Eidsten; Aspen, Jonny & Morrison, Andrew (2016). Exploring urban data visualization and public participation in planning. The Journal of urban technology. ISSN 1063-0732. 22(4), p. 45–64. doi: 10.1080/10630732.2015.1073898. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2015). Gaven til byen - Tjuvholmen og offentlige byrom. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 31(4), p. 329–340. Full text in Research Archive
• Sverre, Bjerkeset & Aspen, Jonny (2015). Gaven til byen - Tjuvholmen og offentlige rom. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 32(4), p. 329–340. Full text in Research Archive
• Hemmersam, Peter; Aspen, Jonny; Morrison, Andrew; Sem, Idunn & Havnør, Martin (2015). Exploring locative media for cultural mapping. In Silva, Adriana de Souza e & Sheller, Mimi (Ed.), Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces (Changing Mobilities). Routledge. ISSN 9781138778139. p. 167–187. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2013). Oslo: The Triumph of Zombie Urbanism. In El-Khoury, Rodolphe & Robbins, Edward (Ed.), Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design. Routledge. ISSN 9780415584623. p. 182–200. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew & Aspen, Jonny (2013). Building appetites: the design of locative media apps for learning the networked city. In Reitan, Janne Beate; Lloyd, Peter; Bohemia, Erik; Nielsen, Liv Merete; Digranes, Ingvild & Lutnæs, Eva (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers 14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway. ABM-media AS. ISSN 9788293298007. p. 1039–1057. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Aspen, Jonny; Hemmersam, Peter; Sem, Idunn & Havnør, Martin (2012). Designing Urban Mapping with Locative Social Media. In Israsena, Praima; Tangsantikul, Juthamas & Durling, David (Ed.), Design Research Society 2012: Bangkok, Conference Proceedings, Volume 3. Design Research Society. ISSN 9786165515702. p. 1291–1303. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2010). Urban planning as representation : an examination of Harald Hals' general plan for Oslo. In Hermansen, Christian (Eds.), Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754679493. p. 15–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2010). Byteori og byutvikling. In Thon, Jahn Holljen & Eriksen, Roy Tommy (Ed.), Hvem eier byen: Plan, tekst, historie. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270996070. p. 15–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2006). Et år har gått. Arkitektur i Norge : Årbok. ISSN 0802-2909. p. 6–16. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). Gentrifisering som kulturell diskurs. In Aspen, Jonny (Eds.), By og byliv i endring. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230400098. p. 121–152. Full text in Research Archive

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• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2026). Søren Ulrik Thomsens København. Gyldendal / Strandberg Publishing. 160 p. doi: https:/www.gyldendal.dk/produkter/soren-ulrik-thomsens-kobenhavn-9788702455137. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Bogen Søren Ulrik Thomsens København er skrevet af byforskerne Sverre Bjerkeset og Jonny Aspen. Gennem samtaler med Thomsen og læsninger af hans værker viser de, hvordan god skønlitteratur kan være en kilde til storbyerfaringer, som faglitteraturen har svært ved at indfange. For storbydigteren Søren Ulrik Thomsen er København smukkest i regnvejr og oplyst af neon. Hans tekster fremkalder billeder af en sanselig, kompakt og elektrisk by fuld af hverdag, erindring og uforudsigelige eventyr. Siden 1980’erne har Thomsens skildringer af København både vakt genklang og opsigt. I sine essays retter han en skarp kritik mod fænomener som gentrificering og forskønnelse – kræfter, der truer med at udhule den moderne storby – og minder os om den mangfoldighed, vi risikerer at miste.

• Aspen, Jonny (2025). Byen som erfaring. Cappelen Damm. ISBN 9788202859022. 242 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Pløger, John & Aspen, Jonny (2015). Den vitale byen. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230401651. 350 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Aspen, Jonny & Westvang, Even Eidsten (2013). Making the mobile and networked city visible by design. European Academy of Design. ISBN 9789197954150. 1000 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). By og byliv i endring. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230400098. Full text in Research Archive

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• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2026). Byrom og bygulv: et opprydningsforsøk. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. 59(2), p. 56–63. doi: https:/www.plantidsskrift.no/arkiv. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Begrepet bygulv har bredt om seg, også som betegnelse på offentlige byrom. Men ‘bygulv’ peker i en ganske annen retning enn heloffentlig byrom, mot noe mer kommersielt, programmert og kuratert. Forfatterne mener det må ryddes i begrepene.

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2026). Bokpresentasjon og forfattersamtale. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Presentasjon av boken "Søren Ulrik Thomsens København" og samtale mellom de to forfatterne og Thomsen.

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2025). (+) Hvorfor bor du i en storby hvis du vil ha det stille rundt deg? doi: https:/www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/hvorfor-bor-du-i-en-storby-hvis-du-vil-ha-det-stille-rundt-deg/9831333. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Den danske dikteren Søren Ulrik Thomsen, som nylig ble tildelt den «lille Nobelprisen», har gjennom sitt forfatterskap dokumentert «hverdagsurbanitetens» svekkelse.

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2025). Fra metropol til provinsiell hængerøv. Storbyforfatter Søren Ulrik Thomsen om Københavns vekst og fall. Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. 3(1), p. 134–145. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2025). Vandringer i det gamle og nye København. Arkitektur.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2024). En storbyens kronikør (del to). Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. doi: https:/www.vinduet.no/journalistikk/en-storbyens-kronikoer-del-to-soeren-ulrik-thomsen-intervjuet-av-sverre-bjerkeset-og-jonny-aspen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Vandringer i det gamle og nye København, i hælene på storbykronikør Søren Ulrik Thomsen.

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2024). En storbyens kronikør (del én). Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Om den danske forfatteren Søren Ulrik Thomsens begeistring for den klassiske storbyen – som fysisk form, som sosialt univers, som erfaring og sanseopplevelse.

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Aspen, Jonny (2024). Researching digital commons as social infrastructure. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2024). Byvandring som erkjennelsesverktøy, Groruddalen på tvers: fem byvandringer. Grotto Books. ISSN 9788269368512. p. 122–128. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2023). Public space in the age of platform urbanism. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2023). Skjønnlitteratur og byforståelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2023). Byliv som kvalitativ erfaring. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny & Bjerkeset, Sverre (2023). Den urban renessansen. p. 10–11. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2021). Space use in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2021). Byromsbruk - en utførlig klassifikasjon. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. p. 40–47. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3045-2021-04-11. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny & Bjerkeset, Sverre (2021). Reinventare il fronte mare / Reinventing the waterfront. Domus. ISSN 0012-5377. p. 11–13. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2020). Smart og tankevekkende om byrom for alle. Anmeldelse av Dominique Hauderowicz og Kristian Ly Serena (red.), Age-Inclusive Public Space (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2020). Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. 102(4), p. 112–112. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2019). Public space use: a classification. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2019). Kåkå Bydebatt: Byfortetting – mot naturen. Paneldeltakere: Audun Engh, Per Gunnar Røe, Henrik Lundberg, Kaj S. Lea, Jonny Aspen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2019). Innledning: Mot et erfaringsnært perspektiv på byen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2019). Harald Hals's reading of the city. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2019). Byliv og livsformer. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2018). Harald Hals's Reading of the City. In Skjulhaug, Marianne & Skajaa, Joakim (Ed.), Det som var, Det som er, Det som kan komme. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. p. 23–31. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2018). Byromsbruk - et utkast til klassifikasjon. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. 49(2), p. 12–19. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2018). Samtale om mennesket og den teknologiske drømmen. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Historical Perspectives on Contemporary ‘Smart City’ Thinking. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2017). Vitalist perspectives on current public space production. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2017). Culture-led urban planning - examples from Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Harboe, Lisbet & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Hva arkitekturen kan gjøre og ikke kan gjøre. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny; Hemmersam, Peter; Knutsen, Jørn & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). Challenges of the ‘Urban Digital’: Addressing interdisciplinarity and power in the planning and design of the digital city. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper identifies and discusses a set of challenges relating to the design of digital services in policies and strategies for more liveable and sustainable cities. These challenges emerge in the meeting between the knowledge and practice fields of digital design, which deal with service and interaction design, and urbanism, which is concerned with the study, planning and design of cities. The purpose of this paper is to lay the ground for a more inclusive and cross-disciplinary perspective on the conceptualisation, planning and realisation of the ‘urban digital’. This relates to how design and urban planning professionals learn to take seriously the societal responsibility implied in the development of digital services and products for everyday urban living.

• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Public space as a meeting place: a case study from Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2016). Revitalisering av Kvadraturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2016). Om å tenke med byen - noen vitalistiske perspektiver. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Aspen, Jonny & Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Digital City Life. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny & Pløger, John (2016). Lambda: 8-timers kulturbyen som effekt? Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. p. 52–55. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2016). Kunstproduksjon i zombieurbanismens tidsalder. In Ida, Madsen (Eds.), En kollektiv kraftanstrengelse for tapte saker. Ida Madsen. p. 57–67. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2016). Zombie Urbanism. [Internet]. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. Full text in Research Archive
• Hemmersam, Peter; Aspen, Jonny & Morrison, Andrew (2016). Serendipity and The Urban Transect Walk: Reflections on Design and Cultural Mapping in Arctic Cities. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2015). Gaven til byen. p. 6–6. Full text in Research Archive
• Skjulhaug, Marianne & Aspen, Jonny (2015). På DOGA med Marianne Skjulhaug: Opplevelsesbyen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2015). Bylivsutfordringer i Hovinbyen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2015). Zombieurbanisme preger vår tids byer. [Radio]. NRK P2 Verdibørsen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2015). Kraften fra sosiale medier kommer til å prege byutviklingen. [Radio]. NRK P2 Verdibørsen. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerkeset, Sverre & Aspen, Jonny (2015). Gaven til byen - Tjuvholmen og offentlige byrom. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2014). Zombie urbanism. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2014). Den nye Oslo-Prosessen. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2013). Oslo - for hvem banker ditt hjerte? p. 18–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2013). Frykter dødt liv i ny bydel. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2013). Zombie-urbanisme preger Bjørvika. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2013). Is Oslo in Danger of Zombie Urbanism? [Internet]. Science Nordic. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Aspen, Jonny & Westvang, Even (2013). Making the mobile and networked city visible by design. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew & Aspen, Jonny (2013). Building appetites: the design of locative media apps for learning the networked city. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2012). Politikerne lager zombie-urbanisme i storbyene. [Radio]. NRK P2 Kulturnytt. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Aspen, Jonny; Hemmersam, Peter; Sem, Idunn & Havnør, Martin (2012). Designing Experimental Urban Mapping with Locative Social Media. Full text in Research Archive
• Hemmersam, Peter; Aspen, Jonny; Morrison, Andrew; Sem, Idunn & Havnør, Martin (2012). Exploring experimental urban mapping tools with social media. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2012). Zombie-urbanisme langs havnefronten. Billedkunst (Oslo). ISSN 1501-4460. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Aspen, Jonny & Westvang, Even Eidsten (2012). Digitalt byliv. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2011). Perspektiver på sentrumsutvikling. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2011). Marmorert mikrohistorie (anmeldelse av Bodil Stenseths bok Nr. 13- en vestkantfortelling). Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. p. 185–187. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2009). Trenger vi byteorien? Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2009). Kampen om byens offentlige rom. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2009). The Politics of Architectural Representation in the 1920s Soviet Union and Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2008). Gentrification and immigration in Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2007). Funksjonalisme som byplanideologi. Fremtid for fortiden. ISSN 0803-6349. p. 14–24. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Funkis : funksjonalismen i Oslo og Akershus. Temanr. redaktør: Arne Lie Christensen

• Aspen, Jonny (2007). Byforståelse : 'Byen' som tekstlig og visuelt felt. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2007). Den flerkulturelle byen - kjennetegn, konflikter, utfordringer. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2006). Endringsprosesser i by : eksempelet Grünerløkka. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2006). Byer i endring. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny & Haslum, Hilde (2005). Unge shopper image på Løkka. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). Hva skjer i Oslo? Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). Er gentrifisering et problem? Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). Gentrifisering. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). Sociocultural and Physical Transformation in Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny (2005). By og byliv i endring. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. p. 4–9. Full text in Research Archive
• Robbins, Edward; Aspen, Jonny; Haslum, Hilde & Børrud, Elin (2005). Urban transformation: urban form, gentrification and immigration - Oslo as an example of European city development. Report submitted to the Norwegian Research Council (two Volums). Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Chapter 1 Introduction. Edward Robbins (ER) p. 5 Chapter 2 Socio-cultural Issues: The transforming City. ER p. 16 Chapter 3 Issues in Immigration. ER p. 35 Chapter 4 Gentrification in Theory. ER p. 47 Chapter 5 Gentrification, Immigration and Neigborhood. p. 61 Chapter 6 Studier av gentrifisering og immigration betraktet som sosiokulturell transforsmasjon. Jonny Aspen p. 136 Chapter 7 Socio Spatial Dialectics. Hilde Haslum p. 242 Chapter 8 Morfologiske perspektiv - om raske endringer og stabiliserende transformasjon i det gentrifiserte Oslo indre by øst. Elin Børrud p. 379 Chapter 14 Conclusion. ER p. 423

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