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During the months May and June, I am spending time in Stockholm as a visiting researcher at KTH. Aside from exploring the city, the long summer days (it is light here for around 18 hours a day) also provide an excellent opportunity to visit the Stockholm Archipelago, a collection of over 30,000 islands (some bigger than the other). My partner and I decided to visit Sandhamn, a popular summer destination 2.5 hours by ferry from Stockholm. The island has only around 125 perma

Spending a long weekend in New York State and Long Island, I of course had to take a close look at some of the infrastructure serving this urban metropolis. And while it is impressive that the subway system, most of which was built in the early 1900s, is still functional, I could not help but think that the American infrastructure is in a very dire state. For part of the trip, we stayed in relatively wealthy suburb in Long Island. Yet, the neighbourhood was full of tilted ele

In March 2025, I had the privilege of visiting Almaty, Kazakhstan, to join the ' SIPA Policy Dialogue on Sustainable and Resilient...