The very recent accelerating pace of urbanization worldwide – marked by the dissolution of conventional boundaries between the urban, rural, and suburban – resonates with Henri Lefebvre’s hypothesis of the “complete urbanization of society.” Specifically, over the past decade, this hypothesis has gained…
In recent years, in response to global changes and the emergence of urban social movements, new urban codes and new public space practices have emerged. The phenomenon of migration, which is driven by the pursuit of improved living conditions, represents a significant challenge for many countries in…
Many developing cities have experienced rapid urban growth throughout its evolvement, which highlighted the need for a more detailed examination of its drivers and the ways in which this growth happened. In the case of Amman, the capital of Jordan, the significance and pace of growth was a cause of many…
Trotz einer mehr als 70-jährigen Geschichte des Community Organizing (CO) in Deutschland, meist in der Sozialen Arbeit an Hochschulen oder in einer städtischen Praxis, hat dies in der (sozial-)wissenschaftlichen Debatte um Beteiligung und Partizi- pation nur selten Eingang gefunden. Die Schließung grundlegender…
Die Bachelorarbeit geht der Frage nach, welche potenziellen Ursachen es für den Rückgang der Agrargenossenschaften in Ostdeutschland gibt und inwiefern ein Zusammenhang zu Landgrabbing besteht. Die empirische Analyse entlang verschiedener Expert*innen-Interviews und zwei Fallbeispielen kommt zu dem Ergebnis,…
Weimar: Institut für Europäische Urbanistik, 2025-05-06
Geleitwort von Timmo Krüger In der Arbeit von Veronika Steinbacher werden vermeintlich abseitige Phänomene ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit gerückt: "Es geht um Spielen im öentlichen Raum, um schaukeln, skaten, Murmeln spielen, im Brunnen plantschen." Sie greift auf grundlagentheoretische Überlegungen…
Weimar: Institut für Europäische Urbanistik, 2025-04-07
This research work seeks to consider the dynamics posed by the soy global chain, with respect to the way in which its productive organization is articulated at the international level and its local insertion in a peripheral accumulation regime as is the case in Argentina. To wit, since the 80’s up to…
La emergencia climática global nos antepone nuevos desafíos y obliga a crecientes luchas sociales ante lo planeamientos desarrollistas territoriales del capital que contribuyen a los desastres ambientales en todo el mundo. El Área Metropolitana Córdoba (AMC), segunda área más poblada de la República…
This thesis aims to understand the changes in the field of Brazilian housing policy in the context of the “last dismantling”, between 2013 and 2022. It seeks to map the shifts between the conjuncture produced by the Workers' Party governments, from 2003 to 2016; and the post-coup conjuncture, between…
Over the past years, Germany has been notably recognized for their humanitarian effort in being one of the nations that host a high number of refugees worldwide. This includes African refugees who have fled dilapidating circumstances in search of safe asylum in Germany. The German refugee policy allows…
Spatial transformation follows the logic of a growth-oriented economy that values cities according to their place in the chain of capitalist wealth production. Many cities in East Germany have lost their significance as sites of production and are consequently facing population decline and the weakening…
Due to the significant number of immigrants in Europe, especially Germany, integration is an ongoing subject of debate. Since the 1970s, with the emergence of the discussions on ‘place,’ it has also been realized that the immigrant experience is associated with location. Nevertheless, due to the challenges…
Anhand der städtebaulichen und sozialen Transformation des östlichen Gründerzeitgebietes von Leipzig wird die Rolle von migrantischen Hausbesitzenden und in der Bausanierung Tätigen im Aufwertungsprozess untersucht. Der Zugang zum Gegenstand verbindet Fragen der Stadtsoziologie und der Denkmalforschung.…
Urban heritage is at the core of the process of many changes observable in the cities today. The pace of urban change in heritage contexts, however, differs widely across the globe. In some areas, it goes slowly, in others it is astonishingly rapid. In some cases, change is coupled with risks of erosion…
In recent times, the study of landscape heritage acquires value by virtue of becoming an alternative to rethink regional development, especially from the point of view of territorial planning. In this sense, the Central Argentine Dairy Basin (CADB) is presented as a space where the traces of different…
Diese Dissertation untersucht Handlungsressourcen von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in Planungsprozessen um innerstädtische Planungsverfahren. Den theoretischen Rahmen bilden die Kapitalarten von Pierre Bourdieu, die zusammen mit dem Matrixraum von Dieter Läpple zu einem neuen Feldbegriff des ‚Raumfeldes‘…
El presente trabajo se inscribe en el campo de los estudios urbanos y plantea como ejes estructurantes la intersección entre las políticas públicas, el barrio y las prácticas del habitar (de Certeau, 1996, 1999; Gravano, 2003) en el marco de las transformaciones del espacio urbano en los barrios pericentrales,…
“How to understand the interaction between urban space and social processes” is a significant question in urban studies. To answer that, the city needs to be recognized as both a physical and a social entity and urban theory and practice need to connect these (Hillier 2007). The present research aims…
Die Corona-Krise hat die Erosion städtischer Solidarität offen zu Tage treten lassen. Dagegen bringen Anton Brokow-Loga und Frank Eckardt in dieser Schrift die praktische Utopie einer solidarischen Postwachstumsstadt „auf den Punkt“. Vom Commoning über die Umverteilung der städtischen Flächen bis zu…
An urban regeneration manifests itself through urban objects operating as change agents. The en-tailed diverse effects on the surroundings demonstrate experimental origin - an experiment as a preplanned but unpredictable method. An understanding of influences and features of urban ob-jects requires scrutiny…