Introduction

Tauri Tuvikene, PhD, is an urban geographer and a professor of urban studies at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University. His research centres on comparative urbanism, comparative methods in light of post-socialist cities, the study of practices and regulations of urban mobility, and the politics of (sustainable) urban infrastructures. On these topics he has published in Urban Studies, IJURR, Geoforum, Journal of Transport Geography and elsewhere. He has co-edited a book on Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (Routledge) and If Cars Could Walk: Postsocialist Streets in Transformation (Berghahn). He has been a Project Leader for two larger multi-stakeholder research projects, including HERA-funded PUTSPACE "Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting" (2019 鈥 2022) and JPI Urban Europe-supported 鈥淐apacities for Resilient and Inclusive Urban Public Transport Infrastructure and Built Environment鈥 (2022 鈥 2025). Full CV in ETIS.

Main tasks

Research on urban studies and cultures of urban life

BA, MA and PhD supervision on urban governance and research on space and cultures

Teaching: cities and mobilities, urban studies

Project Leader, CARIN-PT

Areas of research

Urban studies

Mobility and transport studies

Post-socialist cities