Hilde Nymoen Rørtveit

About

I teach and supervise students in urban geography, planning and landscape studies. My research engages with people-place and people-nature relationships, by empirically exploring various urban neighbourhoods and environments.

Much of my research has focused on the Norwegian housing estate as a particular place and planning problem. In my PhD, I analysed the gap between the expert’s ideas about what the Norwegian housing estate offers as landscape and home, and the estate as lived by its residents. More recently, I have taken an interest in the role of citizen participation and urban communities in relation to discursive ideas within urban planning and governance, such as area-based approaches to neighbourhood upgrading or 'just’ sustainable development.

Current research explores the intersections between policy, planning and people’s everyday productions and mobilisations of landscapes along two main focuses of interest: 1) Social cohesion as an idea and policy agenda, and the resulting attention being paid to local communities as arenas for inclusion, co-production and participation. And 2) Planning for green transitions in times of urgency with implications for democracy, citizen participation and conflicts over land use.

Research

Citizen Engagement, Transparency and Transnational Resource Governance

Norske kommuners rolle i det grønne skiftet.

NorSkift utforsker norske kommuners potensielle roller i omstillingen av det norske samfunnet

Geographies of Just and Sustainable Transitions

Geographies of Just and Sustainable Transitions research group engages in topics that occur at the nexus between politics, economy, and space with a focus on sustainability, just transitions and societal inequalities.

Publications

2026

Refstie, Hilde; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2026) Exploring the Slower Sides of Fast Policymaking: A Call for South–North Dialogues. Nordic Journal of Urban Studies
Academic article

2024

Aruga, Leika; Refstie, Hilde; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2024) “The Citizen” as a Ghost Subject in Co-Producing Smart Sustainable Cities: An Intersectional Approach. Urban Planning
Academic article

2023

Anderson, Sarah Jane; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild. (2023) ‘That's not how you do it’: Moralising the migrant in the Norwegian outdoors. Geoforum
Academic article
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Flemsæter, Frode; Setten, Gunhild. (2023) Å lese et landskap. Hva, hvordan og med hvilke konsekvenser?.
Academic chapter

2019

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Henriksen, Ida Marie; Tjora, Aksel. (2019) Bysamfunnets realiteter og muligheter.
Academic chapter
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2019) Drabantbyen som problem: Områdeløft møter beboere på Saupstad–Kolstad i Trondheim.
Academic chapter

2018

Støa, Eli; Aranya, Rolee; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2018) Lokalsenter, nabolag og bolig. Muligheter og barrierer for sosial integrering av flyktninger i Trondheim. NTNU Fakultet for arkitektur og design, Instutt for Arkitektur og Planlegging
Research report
Setten, Gunhild; Brown, Gry Katrina; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2018) Landscape and social justice.
Academic chapter

2017

Bjerkli, Camilla Louise; Flemsæter, Frode; Lein, Haakon; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild; Aasetre, Jørund. (2017) Integrering gjennom friluftsliv?. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling
Popular science article

2015

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2015) «Genialt planlagt?» Drabantbyen som hjem i spennet mellom boligfaglige idealer og levde landskap. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild. (2015) Modernity, Heritage and Landscape: The Housing Estate as Heritage. Landscape Research
Academic article

2013

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2013) «Genialt planlagt»? Drabantbyen som hjem.
Academic chapter

2011

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2011) Negative myter om drabantbyen. Er det best å bo alle andre steder?. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.)
Commentary

Journal publications

Refstie, Hilde; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2026) Exploring the Slower Sides of Fast Policymaking: A Call for South–North Dialogues. Nordic Journal of Urban Studies
Academic article
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2011) Negative myter om drabantbyen. Er det best å bo alle andre steder?. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.)
Commentary
Anderson, Sarah Jane; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild. (2023) ‘That's not how you do it’: Moralising the migrant in the Norwegian outdoors. Geoforum
Academic article
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild. (2015) Modernity, Heritage and Landscape: The Housing Estate as Heritage. Landscape Research
Academic article
Aruga, Leika; Refstie, Hilde; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2024) “The Citizen” as a Ghost Subject in Co-Producing Smart Sustainable Cities: An Intersectional Approach. Urban Planning
Academic article
Bjerkli, Camilla Louise; Flemsæter, Frode; Lein, Haakon; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild; Aasetre, Jørund. (2017) Integrering gjennom friluftsliv?. Plan - tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byutvikling
Popular science article

Part of book/report

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Henriksen, Ida Marie; Tjora, Aksel. (2019) Bysamfunnets realiteter og muligheter.
Academic chapter
Setten, Gunhild; Brown, Gry Katrina; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2018) Landscape and social justice.
Academic chapter
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Flemsæter, Frode; Setten, Gunhild. (2023) Å lese et landskap. Hva, hvordan og med hvilke konsekvenser?.
Academic chapter
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2019) Drabantbyen som problem: Områdeløft møter beboere på Saupstad–Kolstad i Trondheim.
Academic chapter
Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2013) «Genialt planlagt»? Drabantbyen som hjem.
Academic chapter

Report

Støa, Eli; Aranya, Rolee; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2018) Lokalsenter, nabolag og bolig. Muligheter og barrierer for sosial integrering av flyktninger i Trondheim. NTNU Fakultet for arkitektur og design, Instutt for Arkitektur og Planlegging
Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2015) «Genialt planlagt?» Drabantbyen som hjem i spennet mellom boligfaglige idealer og levde landskap. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis

Teaching

Courses

GEOG1011 Introduction to Human Geography

GEOG660 Samfunnsplanlegging og rolleforståing i komplekse plansituasjonar, EVU-kurs utviklet i samarbeid mellom NTNU, UiB og UiA

Outreach

2025

Lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2025) Paneldebatt: Medvirkning i en ny politisk virkelighet - hvem blir hørt i byutviklingen?. Medvirkning i en ny politisk virkelighet - hvem blir hørt i byutviklingen?
Feature article

Cruickshank, Jørn; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2025) Folkets stemme drukner i betong.

2024

Conference lecture

Kurniawan, Nanang Indra; Rye, Ståle Angen; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2024) Justifying Mineral Extraction for Green Transitions in Times of Urgency. The 10th Nordic Geographers Meeting: Transitioning Geographies
Feature article

Refstie, Hilde; Nielsen, Brita Fladvad; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Henriksen, Ida Marie; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Tjora, Aksel Hagen; Smeplass, Eli. (2024) Er NTNU rustet til å fremme uavhengig kritisk tenkning i fremtidens universitet?.

2022

Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2022) The Norwegian housing estate: home or planning problem? Landscape as a standpoint. Landscape, law and justice - 20 years. Anniversary symposium.

2021

Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2021) Re-thinking 'Nordic' landscape geography: Introduction with reflections on my personal landscape journey. Re-thinking 'Nordic' landscape geography?
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2021) Social cohesion as an idea and policy agenda. Högra seminariet

2019

Conference lecture

Refstie, Hilde; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Aranya, Rolee; Millstein, Marianne. (2019) Session: Planning for sustainable urban futures: transgressing the North-South boundaries in theory and practice. Nordic Geographers Meeting 2019
Conference lecture

Refstie, Hilde; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2019) The role of research in a globalised world of fast urban policymaking. NGM conference 2019
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Aranya, Rolee; Millstein, Marianne; Refstie, Hilde. (2019) Methodological implications of the 'southern' turn in urban theory: introducing North-South dialogues on participatory planning and urban developments. Nordic Geographers Meeting
Lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2019) Presentasjon av bokkapittel: Drabantbyen som problem? Områdeløft møter beboere på Saupstad-Kolstad, Trondheim. Boklansering - Bysamfunn
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2019) Planning for sustainable urban futures: The role of citizen participation and urban communities. 2nd International CitRes Workshop: Citizen Participation and Transnational Resource Management

2018

Lecture

Støa, Eli; Aranya, Rolee; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2018) Presentasjon av resultater fra forskningsprosjektet «Lokalsenterutvikling som strategi for bærekraftige byer – bosetting og integrering av flyktninger i Trondheim kommune». Workshop for Trondheim kommune og Husbanken
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2018) Drabantbyen som problem? (By)politikk og planlegging møter beboere. Sharing Neighbourhoods

2017

Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2017) The Norwegian housing estate as problem: Strategies for urban renewal meet residents at Saupstad-Kolstad, Trondheim. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm
Conference lecture

Støa, Eli; Aranya, Rolee; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Thorshaug, Ragne Øwre. (2017) Local center development and integration of refugees in Trondheim – the role of housing. ENHR2017: Affordable Housing for All! – Redefining the Roles of Public and Private Sectors
Conference lecture

Aranya, Rolee; Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Smith, David; Støa, Eli. (2017) Reconciling goals of social and physical sustainability: an examination of spatial dimension of social integration in Trondheim, Norway. AESOP annual congress '17: Spaces if dialogue for places of dignity. Fostering the European dimention of planning

2012

Interview

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2012) Fagfolka kritiserer, men bebuarane trivst i drabantbyane.
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild. (2012) Hus og hjem i drabantbyen: et spørsmål om morfologi og planleggingens makt?. Hus og hjem: teoretiske perspektiver på mangfold og motsetninger
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2012) Living in Romolslia. Theory and history of housing
Lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2012) Kan vi planlegge oss til gode bomiljø? Beboere i Romolslia om hjem og bomiljø i lys av faglige forståelser av drabantbyen som hjem. Hva skal vi med naboen?
Interview

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2012) Drabantbyer mye bedre enn sitt rykte.
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen; Setten, Gunhild. (2012) Contested landscapes of heritage in a suburban housing estate. Re/theorising heritage

2011

Lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2011) "Genial planlagt"? Drabantbyen som hjem. Lunsjseminar

2008

Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2008) Landscape and home: aesthetic narratives and senses of belonging. Nature-culture-landscape - Scandinavian and Australian perspectives
Conference lecture

Rørtveit, Hilde Nymoen. (2008) Modernistic landscapes as home. Norwegian Geographical Society Conference

2007

Conference lecture

Nymoen, Hilde. (2007) Aesthetic narratives, senses of belonging and landscape in the inner-city and the housing estate. Nordic Geographers Meeting

Språkvelger

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