Cities are indicators of social developments, and they, too, are on the move. Transformation processes are particularly visible here. Urban landscapes take on ever new forms, both socially and culturally. The city researchers presented here - architects and urban planners, sociologists and cultural scientists – observe and analyse these processes from a variety of perspectives.
Brief Résumés
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Dr. Beate Binder is an academic assistant at the Department of European Ethnology at Berlin's Humboldt University. One of her main focuses is urban ethnology, and she has particularly concentrated on the transition processes in Berlin since 1989/90. In this context, she engaged with students in 2000/2001 in empirical research in an area of Berlin covered by a neighbourhood management scheme. Further areas of research include the politics of memory and gender research.  Working on the Way people Live or: What is "Good Urban Life"? by Dr. Beate Binder (City Politics)   |
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Professor Dr. Harald Bodenschatz, Professor of Planning and Architectural Sociology at Berlin's Technical University, was Visiting Professor in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil in 1997 and in Lima/Peru in 2000. His main areas of research are planning and architectural sociology, urban planning and construction history, and post-modern urban construction. The City Has a Future
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Professor Dr. Hartmut Häußermann is Professor of Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt University in Berlin. His main areas of interest are urban renewal and development, immigration and urban development, and the sociology of housing. In 2003 he received the highest-endowed sociology award in Germany, the Schader Prize, together with his colleague Walter Siebel. Shrinking Cities - Shrinking Imagination by Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel (PDF-File, 41,9 KB) |
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 | Dr. Bernd Hunger, city planner and urban sociologist, is the director of StadtBüro Hunger in Berlin, which was founded in 1991. His current focal points are urban reconstruction and the renewal of large-scale residential estates and industrially scarred landscapes. Since 1999 he has worked for the Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Enterprises (GdW) as a consultant for urban construction and research policy. The Social City (PDF-File, 43,2 KB) |
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Prof. Dr. Evelyn Schulz has been Professor of Japanese Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich since 2002. In 1999 she was Visiting Professor of Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Kobe Gakuin/Japan. Her areas of emphasis include the cultural and literary aspects of urban research, the past and present history of cities and urban architecture, and the philosophy of space in Japan. Megalopolis Tokyo – The reconquest of urban space by the "flâneur" by Evelyn Schulz
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Professor Dr. Walter Siebel is Professor of Sociology at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. His main areas of research are urban and regional research. In 2003 he received the highest-endowed sociology award in Germany, the Schader Prize, together with his colleague Hartmut Häußermann.
Shrinking Cities - Shrinking Imagination by Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel (PDF-File, 41,9 KB) |
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 | Dr. Wolfram Wallraf is a political scientist and urban researcher. His planning company Wallraf & Partner focuses on housing market analyses, social research, urban development concepts and framework planning. He has lectured in Berlin, Salzburg, Potsdam and Nagoya/Japan. Urban Restructuring in the New Federal States
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