LARS MARCUS

Lars Marcus is Professor in Urban Design at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He has previously held a professorship at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. For the past 25 years, he has conducted research on how the built environment, understood as spatial capital, structures and gives direction to both everyday life in cities and urban systems more generally. In the long term, this also establishes the fundamental conditions for key societal issues including social integration, local markets, and ecosystem services. He argues that urban morphology thus acts as a form of technology within urban design, used to support and guide more or less all human activity.

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Marcus has pioneered research-based architectural services and was also among the first to introduce the Space Syntax research approach in Sweden. He is a sought-after lecturer and debater, and his writings on the fundamental potential of space in sustainable societal development regularly appear in the daily press and industry publications.