
Tauri Tuvikene
Professor of Urban Studies
School of Humanities
Professor of Urban Studies
School of Humanities
M-345
+372 619 9539
tauri.tuvikene@tlu.ee
+372 56478074
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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