Together with Cecilie Anderson and Cristian Stefanescu Magnus Wåge has been teaching a three week research course in the third year in the Bergen School of Architecture. The students have studied the recent urban developments in the Bergen region with focus on retail trade and shopping centers as a key factor in the development of new centralities. The final review showed a wide range of work from typological studies of shopping centers to thorough mappings of to ongoing tendencies in the development of the Bergen region.