Urban Development | Spatial Analytics
The paper of Storytelling of and for Planning was prepared in cooperation with Sindi Haxhija in 2019 as part of the work for ISOCARP Institute on the EU Horizon 2020 funded project +CityxChange. “Storytelling of and for Planning: Urban Planning through Participatory Narrative-building” was presented at the 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress. Download the paper. Storytelling is the oldest form of …
In September 2019, I coordinated together with Michael Stott, Rene Fu, Hailey Philipps, and the local coordinators Bima Purnama, Adipandang Yudono, Inez Darmalia, and Arya Lahasa Putra the Young Planning Professionals’ workshop which preceded the 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress. More information.
In November 2018, the LSE Urban Age Conference ‘Developing Urban Futures’ took place in Addis Ababa (ET). The Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft made the attendance possible through six travel grant for german-speaking students. Download my conference summary. From the 29 to 20 November, researchers, policymakers, politicians, and entrepreneur came together in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the common goal to explore ways …
The paper was presented at the ResNexus 2018 Conference at the Wageningen University (NL) on 8 November 2018. Download paper. The concept of the urban resilience nexus encompasses various sectors of the urban dynamics and aims for a better understanding of linkages and interplays. This paper looks at these interrelations, mainly of water, the environment, and provision of basic services …
The paper was presented at the 54th ISOCARP World Planning Congress in Bodø (NO). Download paper. This paper aims to examine the interrelations of spatial characteristics to the often-unjust distribution of climate change risk and vulnerabilities and develop a methodological approach for Kampala to redress this situation. The research intends to increase the understanding of spatial equity and proposes a …
During the 54th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, I acted as team leader for the Young Planning Professionals’ workshop in Bodø (NO). “As defined in the agenda of the 54th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, the future of civilisation now more than ever depends on the way we plan and manage our cities and towns. While this agenda calls for aggregate efforts …
The paper was presented during the African Centre for Cities International Conference 2018 in Cape Town (SA). It was produced in collaboration with Pilar Pérez Flores. Download paper. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa face increasingly forms of settlements in the urban and self-planned settlements1 in the peri-urban area, where the lack of security of tenure, land conflicts, and informal land markets overwhelm …
The presentation was held at the fourth ISU Talks ‘Urban Africa’ of the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, Technical University Braunschweig (GER). Download presentation. How can urban planning function in one of the poorest but fastest-growing countries in the world? How can its growth be counteracted in a city, which population grew from 60,000 to est. 1.4 M in five decades …
The paper was presented during the African Centre for Cities International Conference 2018 in Cape Town (SA). Download paper. Today’s cities and metropolitan areas face new and rising challenges while the process of planning becomes more complex. The amount of data, the geographical size, the challenges of sustainability, rising social and spatial inequality and even faster urbanizing and transforming urban …
The presented poster was selected for the WSBE17 Hong Kong International Youth Competition and won the prize of ‘Most innovative assessment framework.’ The contribution was jointly prepared by Tjark Gall, Jan Hitzegrad, Sven Hemminghaus and Göran Gallandt. Download presentation. Urban growth implicates a high complexity of planning. Especially in rapidly growing cities of the global south, urban planning can become …