Peter Hemmersam (PhD) is an architect and professor of urban design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Here, he teaches urban history and theory and codirects the Executive Master in Urbanism programme. His research covers areas such as digital cities, displacement and placemaking. In recent years, he has focused on the history and practice of Arctic urbanism, planning and placemaking. In 2019, he co-edited Future North: The Changing Arctic Landscapes (Routledge), and in 2021, he published Making the Arctic City: The History and Future of Circumpolar Urbanism (Bloomsbury Academic